{"id":54458,"date":"2025-11-28T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54458\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T04:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:03:07","slug":"the-pressing-questions-facing-chris-demarco-as-libertys-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54458\/","title":{"rendered":"The pressing questions facing Chris DeMarco as Liberty&#8217;s coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s start with the Ellie in the room.<\/p>\n<p>Chris DeMarco, the Liberty\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/21\/sports\/liberty-to-hire-chris-demarco-to-end-coaching-search\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">soon-to-be-named head coach<\/a>, is a 40-year-old white man with no prior women\u2019s basketball experience.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to question what his transition to the WNBA might look like and how the Liberty plan to continue to prioritize empowering women within the organization.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarco\u2019s lengthy r\u00e9sum\u00e9, championship pedigree and body of work as the head coach of the Bahamian men\u2019s national team is a big reason he was awarded the opportunity to replace Sandy Brondello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s start with the Ellie in the room. Chris DeMarco, the Liberty\u2019s soon-to-be-named head coach, is a 40-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,8915,10,319,428,11452],"class_list":{"0":"post-54458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-liberty","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus","14":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}