The Phoenix Mercury are settling a offer with Orlando Magic assistant Nate Tibbetts to make him the group’s brand-new coach a individual familiar with the circumstance stated Monday night.
The individual spoke to The Associated Press on condition of privacy duetothefactthat no statement hadactually been made.
Tibbetts was an assistant coach with Portland and Cleveland over the past years before signingupwith the Magic 2 years earlier.
ESPN veryfirst reported the news.
The Mercury will be his veryfirst females’s basketball training task and is the veryfirst hire for brand-new Phoenix basic supervisor Nick U’Ren. U’ren came to the Mercury from the Golden State Warriors this year.
New Mercury and Suns owner Mat Ishbia has currently made a huge splash in Phoenix, revealing prepares for a brand-new practice center as part of a $100 million financialinvestment.
The Mercury endedup with the league’s worst record last season at 9-31. They have a strong older core developed around Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner. Phoenix fired coach Vanessa Nygaard in late June and promoted assistant Nikki Blue for the rest of the season.
Tibbetts would be the 2nd brand-new coach employed in the WNBA this month. The Chicago Sky revealed Teresa Weatherspoon as their brand-new coach. Tibbetts’ workingwith dollars a pattern of previous WNBA gamers endingupbeing head coaches. Half of the league’s coaches played in the league consistingof Las Vegas’ Becky Hammon and New York’s Sandy Brondello, who have their groups in the Finals.
While Tibbetts has no experience training females’s basketball, his daddy Fred was a effective high school women coach in South Dakota.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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