When Gregg Popovich fire truck through the tunnel AT&T Center After being fired by the high schoolers, Becky Hammon replaced him to become the first woman to act as a coach in a NBA regular season game.
“No off the road to the locker room,” Popovich told reporters at a video conference ahead of the San Antonio Spurs taking the Los Angeles Lakers to the fires. “For the time being, I was emotionally compromised.”
While Popovich’s era is diminishing, the reconciliation of Hammon’s historic history has begun to extend beyond all the country. And the man that the aggregate has on his team has been asked why anything has been missed.
“We have a business as a costume of the principle. We did not contract Becky to make history,” said Popovich. “It’s cool. It’s qualified. It’s marvelous at what it wants. It’s my staff for the job it wants. , has been very difficult for women to get some money. For our sake always be “.
Popovich, five times champion, three times Entrepreneur of the Year and member of Salon de la Fama, dijo que Hammon “sabe más sobre los Lakers que yo” y tenia la tarea de buscar a los campeones defensores de cara al juego.
And Popovich, 71, insists many more women like Hammon are limited by social stereotypes but not by aptitudes.
“Women can do the same job better and better than men. That’s a joke. There’s no reason why anyone like Becky and other women can be coaches in the NBA,” he said. “In a mayoral scale, because there is no big problem for me, because of the concoction. And concoction with its abilities, and its value and its future is very, very brilliant. , assuming that the mayor’s mayor knows that he is qualified to be a NBA coach “.
Hammon, 43 years old, four weeks ago All-Star in the WNBA in his 16 times with them New York Liberty y San Antonio silver stars. The first female contract was signed for a full time NBA technical team in 2014. Last season, she had 11 women in the NBA technical team in all of the League.
“There are many, many, many women who have been classified as being retained”, said Popovich. “And it’s simply the naturalness of the world. It’s changing slowly, but even earlier, better”.