The GIST: Former NY Liberty head coach (HC) Sandy Brondello is heading north, tapped as HC for the expansion squad Toronto Tempo on Wednesday. Grab a whiteboard and a marker: We\u2019re breaking down the Xs and Os of the league\u2019s coaching moves.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc6 Brondello brings championship pedigree to Toronto: She\u2019s a two-time WNBA champ, a WNBA Coach of the Year, and the HC of the consistently overachieving<\/a> Australian national team. Her experience and her ability to lure superstars to the Six in the W\u2019s most anticipated free agency period<\/a> could set the Tempo up to replicate the Golden State Valkyries\u2019 expansion success.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udccb Two HC vacancies remain open: With the top candidate off the market, the dominoes have already started falling \u2014 yesterday, the Dallas Wings inked former University of South Florida women\u2019s HC Jose Fernandez, whose impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/a> and long-term commitment to women\u2019s hoops made him a finalist for the same job last year.<\/p>\n Now, thirteen of 15 HC positions are filled, with six women and seven men at the helm ahead of the 2026 season. That leaves just the Seattle Storm and Brondello\u2019s former team in the Big Apple as the only two coachless squads\u2026for now.<\/p>\n \u261d\ufe0f One more thing: CBA negotiations aren\u2019t going well<\/a> \u2014 but you already knew that. With the October 31st deadline inching closer, public exchanges between the WNBA and the WNBPA<\/a> are only getting spicier, from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver saying that a revenue share isn\u2019t the best approach<\/a> to WNBPA executive director Terri Jackson\u2019s fiery response<\/a>. It\u2019s getting hot in here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GIST: Former NY Liberty head coach (HC) Sandy Brondello is heading north, tapped as HC for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-239473","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\/239473","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=239473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}