{"id":299461,"date":"2025-11-22T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299461\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:57:16","slug":"chris-demarco-leaving-warriors-for-wnbas-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299461\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris DeMarco Leaving Warriors For WNBA&#8217;s Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Liberty of the WNBA are hiring Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco as their new head coach, sources tell Shams Charania of ESPN (story via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/47049845\/sources-liberty-agree-hire-warriors-chris-demarco-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexa Philippou of ESPN.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco, who is also the current coach of the Bahamian men\u2019s national team, had been with the Warriors since 2012, prior to Steve Kerr\u2018s arrival in 2014. Initially a member of Mark Jackson\u2018s staff, DeMarco has had a variety of roles since being hired by Golden State, working in the video room, as a scout, in player development positions, and as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p>As Anthony Slater of ESPN <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anthonyVslater\/status\/1991943621193703921\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweets<\/a>, DeMarco was a front-of-bench assistant this season and had a major hand in the Warriors\u2019 defensive game-planning. He worked closely with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thompkl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Klay Thompson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/poolejo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jordan Poole<\/a> during their time with the team, per Philippou.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco was one of two current NBA assistants in the running for the Liberty job, along with Jama Mahlalela\u00a0of the Raptors. Former Nets assistant Will Weaver was also among the finalists for the position, as was current Phoenix Mercury associate head coach Kristi Toliver, who was previously an assistant coach with the Wizards and Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether DeMarco will leave the Warriors immediately, given that WNBA training camps don\u2019t open until April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty of the WNBA are hiring Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco as their new head coach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,134568,82,630],"class_list":["post-299461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-demarco","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299461","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=299461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}