The Athletic's All-Access: Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon
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🗓️ 4 February 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Becky Hammon joins Ben and Sabreena to relive the 2023 Las Vegas Aces title run. Hammon shares how the team dealt with the super team expectations, the grind of repeating, some special moments that buoyed them throughout the year, and goes into great detail on the shorthanded closeout effort in Game 4.
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| 0:32.5 | For The Athletic, I'm Zena Keda, and this is The Athletic Women's Basketball Show. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Women's Basketball Show. Today is a very special edition of our Athletic |
| 0:59.7 | All Access show where we sit down with the big names, bright talent, and difference makers |
| 1:05.1 | around the sport of women's basketball for you all to enjoy. Our guest today has actually |
| 1:10.2 | made differences in both women's basketball and men's to enjoy. Our guest today has actually made differences in both |
| 1:11.5 | women's basketball and men's basketball. And if you haven't already read the show description |
| 1:16.0 | that basically gives it away, I will allow Ben Pickman to give the correct and proper introduction. |
| 1:22.9 | He'll be joined by Sabrina Merchant to interview our guest. Ben, take it away. |
| 1:26.9 | All right. We are joined today by a |
| 1:30.1 | basketball hall A famer, a member of the 15th, 20th, and 25th anniversary WNBA teams, a two-time |
| 1:37.7 | WNBA champion as a head coach. We appreciate her joining us in a busy, busy time for front offices and WNBA teams. |
| 1:46.0 | But as a reminder to all those fans out there, the goal of all these moves is to have what |
| 1:51.9 | our guest Becky Hammond has, and that is to win a WNBA championship. That is the goal |
| 1:57.5 | when constructing these rosters. So we thought it would be a good idea to go back a little bit. Here are some stories from the 2023 season, learn about coaching the Aces, talk about the league at large. We have Becky Hammond on the show. Coach Becky Hammond of the Las Vegas Aces, welcome to the Athletic Women's Basketball show. Thank you for having me. That was quite the intro, Ben. I'm trying. It is a busy time and exciting time in the WNBA. And now, normally we kick it off a |
| 2:22.7 | question with a question that we are curious about. But the question we wanted to start with comes |
| 2:27.4 | from someone you know as well as anyone. I don't know if you saw this, but last night, |
| 2:32.0 | your star forward Asia Wilson. She tweeted, my teammates are so funny. I really don't know if you saw this, but last night, your star forward, Asia Wilson. |
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