Hammon was in the spotlight last month when she led the Spurs to overall victory at the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League, becoming the first woman to achieve that feat. She was terrific. She brings a unique dimension. “I think it is a nice opportunity for her”.

Lieberman told the Bee that she will accept the offer.

The Kings are following the Spurs’ mannequin in hiring Lieberman following San Antonio’s success with Hammon. There are 29 teams and they might look at this (announcement) and go, ‘Wow! We have a woman running for president.

The Iowa Energy hired Nicki Gross as an assistant coach on July 30.

Lieberman will be the second full-time National Basketball Association assistant coach, according to Sam Amick at USA Today.

Iske joins the Kings after the past two seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers.

She is eager to get to work with Karl to improve the Kings, who are looking for some stability at last.

From going up against the Harlem Globetrotters in exhibitions to playing in now defunct women’s professional leagues, Lieberman’s on-court experience spans four decades.

Earlier this week, the Arizona Cardinals introduced that Jen Welter would be a part of the staff’s teaching employees for coaching camp and the preseason as a training intern.

There doesn’t appear to be any stopping the women’s movement in professional sports. She was an Olympic silver medalist in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, per Bleacher Report’s Tyler Conway. She also stirred the WNBA’s Detroit Shock and served as the team’s general manager before she joined the Mavericks’ organization, Mercury News said. Conway confirmed the fact.

Lieberman coached the Legends to a D-League playoff appearance during the 2010-11 season.

Having become an iconic athlete – not just in the context of her gender, but a full-stop force with which to be reckoned – she came out of retirement to usher in a new era of women’s basketball with the establishment of the WNBA in 1997.