{"id":452056,"date":"2026-02-06T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452056\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:03:08","slug":"chris-demarcos-liberty-coaching-staff-taking-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452056\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris DeMarco\u2019s Liberty coaching staff taking shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Liberty coach <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/10\/sports\/chris-demarco-is-ready-to-turn-his-liberty-dream-into-reality\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris DeMarco had close to a clean slate<\/a> when he arrived in Brooklyn this winter.<\/p>\n<p>His predecessor, Sandy Brondello, brought her husband and the Liberty\u2019s top assistant last season, Olaf Lange, and former video coordinator and player development coach Brian Lankton along with her to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm hired Sonia Raman to be their next head coach, and assistant Zach O\u2019Brien joined Lynne Roberts\u2019 staff in Los Angeles this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Their departures, along with Parker Lovett\u2019s promotion to a job in the Liberty\u2019s front office, allowed DeMarco the opportunity to bring in people he believes best fit his vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Liberty coach Chris DeMarco had close to a clean slate when he arrived in Brooklyn this winter.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[436,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-452056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452056","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=452056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}