“I had just finished the 2018 season, we had won, so you\u2019re just on TV more, you\u2019re around more,” Bird said. “Fast forward a month, maybe less, I get a text from Caron Butler. I went to Connecticut with Caron. \u2018Hey, my guy Tim Connelly, he\u2019s the president of the Denver Nuggets, he was wondering if he could talk to you.”<\/p>\n
Bird ultimately leaned into the Connelly’s interest by touring the facility and meeting everyone around the organization, before they ultimately “let [her] choose” what role she wanted to take on with the franchise. <\/p>\n
“I chose the front office because I don\u2019t know the inner workings of a coaching staff. But as a player, I kind of understood what that life was,” Bird continued. “So while I probably could have learned a lot more X\u2019s and O\u2019s from Mike Malone, I didn\u2019t know anything about front office work. And I actually don\u2019t know in the moment that I ever wanted to go into coaching, I still don\u2019t know that.”<\/p>\n
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Sue Bird shares some laughs as she answers questions from the crowd during The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame 2025 Inductions media event at the WBHOF June 13, 2025, in Knoxville, Tenn. (Shawn Millsaps\/ Special to News Sentinel) \/ Shawn Millsaps\/Special to the News Sentinel \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Bird shares some more in-depth experience, saying how bizarre the trade deadline was, saying it was “fascinating” to experience the behind-the-scenes stuff.<\/p>\n
“I have a special place for Denver because of my experience there,” Bird finished.<\/p>\n
It is certainly a rare experience for an active player to be able to cross over to their brother league and get a position in a team’s front office, but Bird made the most of her unique time in Denver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sue Bird is a WNBA legend, winning four championships, making 12 All-Star teams, and is the all-time leader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-216253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216253","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=216253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}