Rebecca Hammon wants to continue to make history in American basketball, and is one step away from scoring his name forever in the great history of the sport. It is that after her brilliant career as a player, she developed as an assistant in the NBA, and now she’s one interview away from becoming head coach for one of the world’s top league teams.
Becky Hammon is close to becoming Portland’s coach
Better known as Becky, the current technical assistant of Gregg popovich it is very close to positioning itself where historically women have not yet been able to. Because after several instances, Hammon is in the final phase of the selection process to become the future technical director of Portland Trail Blazers.
According to specialist journalist Adrian Wojnarowski, Becky, who has accompanied Popovich since 2014 in San antonio spurs, fight the position with Chauncey billups, the ex Pistons who knew how to be MVP and who is currently an assistant in Los Angeles Clippers.
Her playing career
The legend of women’s basketball played 16 seasons in the WNBA averaging 13.9 points, 2.5 rebounds and 3.8 assists (with New York Liberty and San Antonio Silver Stars). He went through six European teams (Trentino Rovereto, Rivas Ecópolis, CSKA Moscow, Ros Casares Valencia, Nadezhda Orenburg and Spartak Moscow Region) and also defended the Russian jersey internationally (where she participated in the World Cup and Olympic Games), after being relegated from the team of her native country. After having achieved a large number of titles, medals and distinctions, it is considered one of the world references of sport.
Your way as CT
.Hammon, 44, broke with the dominant paradigm and In 2014, she became the first female assistant on an NBA team: San Antonio Spurs. Under the leadership of Popovich, he was promoted in the staff, he led the team in its consecration in the Summer League in Las Vegas in 2015, until being considered the DT’s right hand in 2020, when after the expulsion of the experienced coach, the assistant had to take the main command in the match against the Lakers. “I congratulate both her and our league”stated at the time Lebron James.
Ginobili and Hammon on The Spurs
“She is the first female assistant, but she is a coach”, Ginobili acknowledged in 2017, when he described her as ‘intelligent and understanding of the game’. “You can coach an NBA team”, also expressed the historical Pau Gasol in an open letter in The Players Tribune long ago.
One step away from making history
.The Hammon effect made other women also dare to occupy places socially interpreted as for men, such as Jenny boucek, who officially helped Sacramento Kings Y Dallas mavericks. But without a doubt, if the star is chosen as Portland’s coach, it will mean a milestone that will echo throughout the sports world in favor of gender equality, which has been breaking down barriers, prejudices and opening doors for a fairer equality of opportunities. .