{"id":206631,"date":"2025-10-12T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206631\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:59:08","slug":"stephen-a-smith-would-hire-becky-hammon-as-nba-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206631\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith would hire Becky Hammon as NBA head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon led the team to their third WNBA championship in four years with a four-game sweep over the Phoenix Mercury that was cemented on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cTHAT\u2019S THREE OF A KIND FOR THE LAS VEGAS ACES! WNBA CHAMPIONS FOR THE THIRD TIME IN FOUR YEARS! A DYNASTY DECLARED!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Ruocco with the call for ESPN. \ud83c\udfc0\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WNBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WNBAFinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WNBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WNBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zAd9VNeeWP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zAd9VNeeWP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1976838419847561703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hammon was a six-time All-Star as a player in the WNBA after being a three-time All-American in college basketball at Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p>Along with starring as a head coach in the WNBA, Hammon was a key assistant for head coach Gregg Popovich in the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs. In 2015, she served as the Spurs\u2019 Summer League head coach and led them to a title. And when Popovich was ejected from the second quarter of a Spurs game on December 30, 2020, Hammon became the first female acting head coach in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>Hammon has had interviews with NBA organizations for head-coaching jobs, but it\u2019s never materialized in landing a job.<\/p>\n<p>If it were up to ESPN voice Stephen A. Smith, Hammon would be an NBA head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Smith made that clear on his podcast, The Stephen A. Smith Show, and posted a video clip of his explanation Saturday on X.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If I were a NBA owner, I\u2019d hire Becky Hammon as head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPVxLlB3Wa\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uPVxLlB3Wa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenasmith\/status\/1977027697101750337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe deserves to coach in the NBA,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I owned an NBA team, I would not mind giving her a chance as the head coach of my franchise,\u201d Smith continued. \u201cThat woman knows what she\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, I\u2019m just talking about Becky Hammon doing what she did in the NBA as an assistant coach, and coaching the Summer League team for the men to a title before she took the Las Vegas Aces\u2019 job,\u201d Smith said. \u201cShe has been a staple in basketball, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe men should not be allowed to be head coaches in the WNBA, because you don\u2019t see women coaching in the NBA, at the head-coaching level,\u201d Smith added. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to do that to the women, having a man coach the WNBA team, then a woman should be allowed to be the head coach of an NBA team. That\u2019s what I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith is definitely not alone in believing that Hammon deserves a shot at being an NBA head coach, if it\u2019s something she wants. Popovich and many other respected voices in the NBA world have been vocal about Hammon being an excellent head-coaching candidate. She\u2019s certainly made her coaching abilities clear in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon led the team to their third WNBA championship in four years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[8133,49,48,100978,3460,2696,82,35518,100979,630],"class_list":["post-206631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-becky-hammon","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-stephen-a-smith","tag-the-stephen-a-smith-show","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}