{"id":215736,"date":"2025-10-11T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215736\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:19:07","slug":"kristi-toliver-has-liberty-head-coach-interview-on-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/215736\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Toliver has Liberty head coach interview on horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2013 Mercury associate head coach Kristi Toliver\u2019s name has come up in a lot of WNBA circles as an interesting candidate for any of the league\u2019s five head coaching vacancies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s even in the mix to potentially be Sandy Brondello\u2019s successor in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury granted the Liberty permission to speak with Toliver, according to multiple league sources. A formal interview is expected to take place after the WNBA season, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Toliver also previously interviewed to be Toronto\u2019s inaugural head coach, sources said. Other candidates for that job include Brondello and Pacers assistant Jenny Boucek, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2013 Mercury associate head coach Kristi Toliver\u2019s name has come up in a lot of WNBA circles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,5551,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-215736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}