Episode 92: Becky Hammon

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy and Lynn Olszowy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Six-time WNBA all-star and coaching trailblazer Becky Hammon joins Laughter Permitted to talk about winning a WNBA championship in her first season as coach of the Las Vegas Aces, how fun played a role in the team's success and what she learned as an assistant coach to Gregg Popovich. Becky also shares why she got into coaching and how she came to accept herself as a person. Plus learn about Becky's love of shoes and expert knowledge of the 90s. In the close of the show, Lynn breaks down Julie's latest attempt at doing the worm.

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0:00.0	The Laughter Permitted Podcast is brought to you by Ally.
0:02.8	Do it right.
0:04.2	Hey there!
0:05.2	Welcome to Laughter Permitted.
0:07.0	I'm Julie Fowdy.
0:08.2	I'm Lennon Osawi and get ready to do it, Village.
0:11.2	It's ham and time.
0:13.0	Yep, you can't touch this.
0:14.6	Our guest is Las Vegas Aces Head Coach
0:18.4	an absolute rock star, Becky Hammond.
0:22.4	In full disclosure, we've wanted Becky on the podcast
0:25.6	for a while now.
0:26.8	And so we were very excited that we got to catch up with her
0:30.2	at the ESPNW Summit.
0:31.4	And the timing ended up being great because we were able to talk
0:34.4	with Becky about winning a WMBA championship.
0:37.4	And mind you, she did it in her first year as a WMBA Head Coach.
0:44.2	Boom!
0:45.6	You might also know that Becky previously was an assistant coach
0:49.4	with the San Antonio Spurs for eight seasons,
0:52.2	becoming the first woman to have a full-time assistant coaching job
0:56.6	in the MBA.
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