Teresa Weatherspoon is headed back to the WNBA.
Feb 25, 2023; New York, New York, USA; New Orleans Pelicans Assistant Coach Teresa Weatherspoon during warmups New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports - 20087777The Chicago Sky are finalizing a deal to make the Hall of Famer their next head coach, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Weatherspoon will replace Emre Vatansever in Chicago, who parted with the franchise after serving in the interim role in the second half of last season.
Basketball Hall of Famer Teresa Weatherspoon is finalizing a deal to become the new head coach of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky, league sources tellWeatherspoon played in the league from 1997-2004, almost entierly for the New York Liberty before spending her final season with the Los Angeles Sparks. She averaged five points and 5.3 rebounds per game while earning five All-Star nods during her career, and led the Liberty to the WNBA Finals four times.
Weatherspoon led the Louisiana Tech women's basketball team for five seasons and got the program to the NCAA tournament twice in what was her first head coaching job. She then joined the New Orleans Pelicans staff in 2019 as an assistant coach, and was frequently someone who wascredited her for helping him recover through a broken foot
Weatherspoon will now get her first head coaching job in the WNBA, where she’ll look to bring stability to a franchise that had two head coaches last season just a few years removed from their title run.as an assistant coach under new head coach Darko Rajaković. Wade was in the middle of his fifth season with the team, and helped lead them to their first WNBA championship in 2021.
Vatansever went 11-13 and got the Sky to the playoffs, but they were knocked out of the postseason by the Las Vegas Aces in the first round. The organization then s, and started a search for a new head coach and general manager. Wade held both roles, and the Sky were the last team to combine the head coach and general manager jobs into one.
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