SVG out as NOLA PELICANS Coach...TERESA WEATHERSPOON IN?

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NBA Source: Pelicans assistant Teresa Weatherspoon could be elevated to NOLA head coach

NBA Source: Pelicans assistant Teresa Weatherspoon could be elevated to NOLA head coach

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NBA Source: Pelicans assistant Teresa Weatherspoon could be elevated to NOLA head coach

NBA sources confirm to WDSU the Pelicans have had internal discussions about promoting assistant coach Teresa Weatherspoon to head coach.

On Wednesday the Pelicans parted ways with head coach Stan Van Gundy after just one season. The Pels finished the 2020-2021 campaign 31-41 overall and missed the playoffs for a third straight year.

An NCAA National Champion player at Louisiana Tech who played professionally overseas and in the WNBA, Weatherspoon was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2019.

She has served as an assistant coach with the Pelicans since 2019, first on head coach Alvin Gentry's staff and then with Van Gundy.

Pelicans players such as Zion Williamson routinely single out "Spoon" for the work she does with the franchise.

If Weatherspoon is promoted to head coach she will be the first woman to serve as a head coach in a men's professional sport.

Most recently the head coach of the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters she produced a 99-71 overall record as head coach from 2008-2014.

Sources tell WDSU Charles Lee, an assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks is also a leading candidate to replace Van Gundy as Pelicans head coach.

 

[TX4lyfe]

This will be interesting

 

[Duece]

They fired Van Gundy because Ingram and Zion didn't care for him and if they like Spoon, then elevate Spoon. It's the NBA keep em happy and give em what they want.

 

[jasonblacc]

This will be interesting

It will be. I always assumed Becky would be the first women head coach.

 

[durham]

Bad move. Gender equality gone too far. Good luck I guess

 

[gdatruth]

if she gets the job best of luck
cause if she ain't successful, I expect other teams to be hesitant in hiring a women's head coach

 

[850credit]

Sounds like the stars of the team are on board. If so, the role guys will have to fall in line. These new cats don't have the bias of some of us dinosaurs. They would love to win for the first female coach.

 

[Duece]

Sounds like the stars of the team are on board. If so, the role guys will have to fall in line. These new cats don't have the bias of some of us dinosaurs. They would love to win for the first female coach.

Don't seem like they have a choice with the stories that are coming out about Zion, they might as well swing for the fences, if that's who Zion wants then go for it.

It's literally now or never if the rumors are true.

 

[850credit]

What's the rumors on Zion?

He's from my home state

 

[parisian]

Zion ain't sticking around in NOLA once his rookie deal is up

 

[christop]

Bad move. Gender equality gone too far. Good luck I guess

Why do you believe it's a bad move?

 

[christop]

Zion ain't sticking around in NOLA once his rookie deal is up

This is highly unlikely.

 

[parisian]

This is highly unlikely.

because of the money?

 

[gdatruth]

This is highly unlikely.

because of the money?

as a Knicks fan I wanna believe
but so far no player eligible for a max coming off their rookie year turns it down

the next one will be the first one

 

[KunningLinguist]

if she gets the job best of luck
cause if she ain't successful, I expect other teams to be hesitant in hiring a women's head coach

Why?

They hire men that aren't successful every off season and in every sport....

Average coach is unemployed every 4 years in the NBA....

 

[xfactor]

It will be. I always assumed Becky would be the first women head coach.

If you look at history, the so-called black man or woman is always first because they like to use us as a test case or proof of concept.

I don’t agree with the move because they have a female owner trying to push feminism and I think there are better candidates than Coach ‘Spoon.

 

[christop]

because of the money?

Yeah they've designed it now that if you turn down the rookie extension you fucking up you money it's not like the 90s with dudes like webber turning it down.

 

[christop]

as a Knicks fan I wanna believe
but so far no player eligible for a max coming off their rookie year turns it down

the next one will be the first one

Yeah also Zion is such a laid back person I believe he will give them an honest chance before even considering another team.

 

[Duece]

What's the rumors on Zion?

He's from my home state

Did you see all of the articles that dropped today that said his family doesn't want him in New Orleans.

 

[Duece]

Zion is a bigger star at this point than Anthony Davis and Chris Paul were, I think he can make up the money elsewhere if he does turn it down.

I also think that will spell the end for basketball in New Orleans will ignite renewed discussion about small markets in the NBA.