{"id":249336,"date":"2025-10-24T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:30:08","slug":"sources-storm-to-hire-libertys-sonia-raman-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/249336\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Storm to hire Liberty&#8217;s Sonia Raman as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByShams Charania  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESPN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/origin-espn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 24, 2025 8:23PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Liberty<\/a> assistant Sonia Raman has agreed to a multi-year deal to become the new head coach of the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Storm<\/a>, sources told ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Raman makes WNBA history as the first person of Indian origin to be head coach after being the first Indian-American woman to be NBA assistant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Raman spent 2020-24 as an assistant with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mem\/memphis-grizzlies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> and last season with the Liberty. Andy Latack and Steve Neff of Klutch Sports negotiated the new deal with the Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByShams Charania Friday, October 24, 2025 8:23PM New York Liberty assistant Sonia Raman has agreed to a multi-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[136075,352,25688,436,3,4676,99,434],"class_list":["post-249336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-136075","tag-espn","tag-espnw","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-news","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249336","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=249336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}