{"id":337834,"date":"2025-12-10T23:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:45:15","slug":"warriors-assistant-chris-demarco-excited-to-take-over-as-coach-of-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337834\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco excited to take over as coach of Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Chris DeMarco is excited to\u00a0get started as coach\u00a0of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/new-york-liberty\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-liberty\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll have to wait a few more weeks to officially get going as he won&#8217;t begin until Jan. 1. For now he&#8217;ll continue as an assistant coach of the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did just a little bit of research. It was a no-brainer that this is the best opportunity in the WNBA,\u201d DeMarco said. \u201cA good championship franchise and this was what I wanted and that\u2019s why I\u2019m here right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, his last game with the Warriors is in Brooklyn against the Nets right before the start of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco has been with the Warriors for 13 years in a variety of positions, including player development coach and assistant, and helped the franchise win four NBA championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my free time I have, pouring into this, probably ordered every book on the New York Liberty,\u201d DeMarco said. \u201cI always watched as a fan. So now I have to shift my focus and watch as a coach. So there\u2019s a lot to go back and watch. &#8230; To learn about the history of the WNBA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco was officially introduced as New York&#8217;s coach on Wednesday with Liberty players Sabrina Ionescu, Betnijah Laney, Isabelle Harrison and Nyara Sabally in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>He inherits potentially a really talented team with Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones as well. Both are free agents \u2014 like most of the league. Kolb is confident that all his stars will be back once a new collective bargaining agreement is signed.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco is the latest WNBA coach with NBA experience. He joined\u00a0Alex Sarama\u00a0(Portland) and\u00a0Sonia Raman\u00a0(Seattle), who were two of the five coaches hired this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco said he spoke with Phoenix GM Nick U&#8217;Ren and coach Nate Tibbetts, who both used to be in the NBA. U&#8217;Ren was in Golden State with DeMarco.<\/p>\n<p>New York GM Jonathan Kolb liked that DeMarco has worked in a variety of roles with the Warriors. He&#8217;s also been the Bahamian national team coach since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris possesses a rare combination of tactical savvy, emotional intelligence, as well as an unrelenting work ethic. That aligns well with our players,\u201d Kolb said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Chris DeMarco is excited to\u00a0get started as coach\u00a0of the New York Liberty. He&#8217;ll have to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-337834","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\/337834","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=337834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}