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For years now, former WNBA star Becky …

For years now, former WNBA star Becky Hammon has been top of mind when it comes to “who” should first take that role. She’s worked as assistant for Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs since 2014 and last year became the first woman to work as acting head coach. But all she ever gets in a head coaching search is “almost there.” Minnesota Lynx general manager/head coach Cheryl Reeve doesn’t see that changing soon, calling the exercise of naming a woman she believes should be an NBA coach a “waste of time” because “the men aren’t going to allow it.”

Reeve said it’s not the players who are …

Reeve said it’s not the players who are against women coaching, but the front offices that are largely controlled by men. “It’s really men’s sports,” Reeve said. “It’s the mentality of men’s sports that what they’re doing is so difficult that a woman could not do that. And that’s the only place that we’re not leading. And once we do, look out. ‘Cuz a lot of men aren’t going to be qualified anymore when we get some of these women in there. And it’s not the players by the way. It’s not the players, it’s the positions of leadership.”

Steve Kerr and Cheryl Reeve are the present and future of USA Basketball

Both the men’s and women’s USA Basketball teams have made coaching changes.

It’s been a surprisingly eventful week for USA Basketball.

On the heels of two gold medals during the Tokyo Olympics, USA Basketball’s 5v5 teams are introducing new leadership.

News broke on Tuesday that four-time WNBA champion head coach Cheryl Reeve will be Dawn Staley’s successor as coach of the USWNT. And just days later, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski took to Twitter to announce the finalizing of three-time NBA champion head coach Stever Kerr taking over men’s national team duties from Gregg Popovich.

Both Kerr and Reeve served as assistant coaches for their respective gold medal-winning USA teams at the most recent Olympic games, making the transition into their new positions potentially seamless.

Reeve, arguably the WNBA’s all-time greatest coach, will be stepping into one of the most prestigious coaching jobs in all of basketball. The women’s Olympic team are winners of 55 straight games dating back to 1992 and have earned seven straight gold medals in that time.

Steve Kerr will inherit a challenge of his own. While it’s debatable whether or not the rest of the world has “caught up” with the U.S. from a basketball standpoint, they’ve certainly crept closer. The USMNT has won the past four Olympic golds but has struggled during other FIBA Basketball World Cups.

Just don’t expect either of USA’s new coaches to fall short of expectations. As mentioned previously, Reeve is a four-time champion as a head coach, while Kerr (+300 COTY odds at Tipico) has won three as the Warriors’ lead guy and currently has them playing their best basketball in years.

The future of USA Basketball is in good hands.

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Who’s coaching the United States men’s and women’s basketball teams?

The NBA season ended just a few days ago but for fans who want their basketball fix, the Olympics will help.

The NBA season ended just a few days ago, but for fans who want their basketball fix, the Olympics will help provide necessary excitement.

When the United State’s men’s national team begins to play against other top competition from around the world, the men’s team will be coached by Gregg Popovich. He is a five-time NBA champion leading the San Antonio Spurs and has served as head coach for Team USA since taking over for Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski back in October 2015.

Also on the coaching staff for the United States is Steve Kerr, who won five NBA titles as a player and has also already been crowned champion three times as a coach. Kerr played for Popovich for several years when he was a professional player.

Others on the coaching staff are Lloyd Pierce — who was head coach of the Atlanta Hawks until this past season and was recently hired as lead assistant for the Indiana Pacers — as well as Villanova men’s basketball head coach Jay Wright.

Meanwhile, the United States women’s basketball team is led by Dawn Staley, who has held the position since 2017.

(Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

She played professional basketball for more than a decade both domestically and internationally and is now the head coach for South Carolina’s women’s basketball team. She was recently considered a candidate for the head coaching position with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Her staff includes Dan Hughes (who recently retired as head coach of the Seattle Storm), Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve and former George Washington women’s basketball head coach Jennifer Rizzotti — who recently took over as head coach of the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun.

Men’s basketball at the Tokyo Olympics is set to begin Sunday, July 25, and Team USA’s first game is against France at 8 a.m. ET.

Women’s basketball at the Games begins Monday, July 26, and Team USA’s first matchup is against Nigeria at 12:40 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 27.

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