{"id":754863,"date":"2026-07-10T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754863\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:23:12","slug":"aces-becky-hammon-clinches-spot-as-wnba-all-star-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754863\/","title":{"rendered":"Aces&#8217; Becky Hammon clinches spot as WNBA All-Star head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon will lead one of the WNBA All-Star teams in Chicago this month.<\/p>\n<p>Hammon and Minnesota&#8217;s Cheryl Reeve locked up the two head coaching spots by finishing with the league&#8217;s two best winning percentages through Friday. Both teams are tied for first at 16-6.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third time that Hammon has been named an All-Star coach, after earning the role in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s game, honorary general managers Teresa Weatherspoon and Cynthia Cooper will draft teams from a pool of 22 players. <\/p>\n<p>That includes Aces star players A&#8217;ja Wilson, who was named one of 10 starters, and Jackie Young, who is a reserve.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown which of the two teams Hammon will coach.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA All-Star Game is scheduled for Saturday, July 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon will lead one of the WNBA All-Star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-754863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754863","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=754863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}