{"id":300943,"date":"2025-11-23T03:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300943\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T03:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:42:13","slug":"report-liberty-hiring-warriors-assistant-demarco-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/300943\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Liberty hiring Warriors assistant DeMarco as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Liberty are hiring Golden State Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco as their new head coach, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1991943160864669932\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco, who&#8217;s been with the Warriors since 2012, helped Golden State win four NBA titles as a member of Steve Kerr&#8217;s coaching staff. The 40-year-old has also served as the head coach of the Bahamas men&#8217;s national team since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty began looking for a new head coach after deciding not to renew Sandy Brondello&#8217;s contract in September, just a year after winning the WNBA title together.<\/p>\n<p>New York also considered former Brooklyn Nets assistant Will Weaver, Phoenix Mercury associate head coach Kristi Toliver, and Toronto Raptors assistant Jama Mahlalela for its vacancy, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/47049845\/sources-liberty-agree-hire-warriors-chris-demarco-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Alexa Philippou<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco will inherit a team that went 27-17 in 2025 before falling in the first round to the Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty are hiring Golden State Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco as their new head coach, sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-300943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300943","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=300943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}