San Antonio Spurs Assistant Coach Becky Hammon Is Confidence Personified

Hammon's, who's dad was also a coach, always dreamed of being in the NBA

I can admit it.  I had the biggest crush on Becky Hammon for years.  Cute girls that hoop are easy to love. She played ball in my state at Colorado State University, so I always had a close up view of this incredibly special player.  As a coach myself, I instantly recognize special players on the floor.  They somehow are quick but they never hurry.  Their knack for knowing when the game needs a momentum change, and providing it is uncanny.  Becky Hammon has always been that type of player.

Now that she has been hired by the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA as an assistant coach, she gets to reveal herself as that kind of coach.  Hammon is a bull dog with dimples.  Her temperament is stern by nature and she is unafraid of confrontation.  She might even like confrontation a bit.  When she addresses a player, she walks into that uncomfortable region that most people avoid to both hear and be heard, and its not just because she is diminutive.  I have seen Hammon extend her ear to another person, player or coach, so often that it seems burned in my memories of who she is as a person.  The most powerful teachers in the world come across as intense listeners.  Hammon's voice will be powerful in this league because she listens with her spirit looking for an opportunity to help her team maximize their individual skills.

If a team is but a reflection of the coach, I predict that Becky Hammon will not only become the first female head coach in the NBA, she will be the coach of the most confident team of NBA players that ever stepped on the floor. Confidence is who she is because she has every reason to be.  Becky Hammon, who just so happens to be female,  knows basketball as well as any PERSON on this planet.

So proud OF you.  So proud FOR you.