{"id":760499,"date":"2022-09-23T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=760499"},"modified":"2022-09-23T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:07:05","slug":"spurs-hiring-candice-dupree-assistant-coach-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/spurs-hiring-candice-dupree-assistant-coach-report\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: San Antonio Spurs are Hiring Former WNBA All-Star Candice Dupree as Assistant Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=San+Antonio+spurs\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=San+Antonio+spurs\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> are reportedly hiring former WNBA player <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Candice+dupree\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Candice+dupree\" target=\"_blank\">Candice Dupree <\/a>as their new assistant coach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dupree was the sixth overall pick in the 2006 WNBA Draft and played for fifteen seasons in the W. The seven-time WNBA All-Star won a WNBA Championship in 2014 with the Phoenix Mercury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news was initially reported by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamscharania?s=11&amp;t=KlFCaNfeEgRvkJh4AqDi5w\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shamscharania?s=11&amp;t=KlFCaNfeEgRvkJh4AqDi5w\" target=\"_blank\">Shams Charania<\/a> of The Athletic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The San Antonio Spurs are hiring former WNBA star Candice Dupree as an assistant coach on Gregg Popovich\u2019s staff, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAthletic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Stadium<\/a>. Dupree was a seven-time All-Star in 15 WNBA seasons and won the 2014 championship with Phoenix.<\/p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1573349782172704770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By joining the Spurs&#8217; staff, Dupree is now following in the footsteps of her predecessor and former Spurs assistant coach <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Becky+Hammon\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Becky+Hammon\" target=\"_blank\">Becky Hammon<\/a>, who just led the Las Vegas Aces into a new era after winning not only the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wnba\/becky-hammon-wins-2022-coach-of-the-year\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wnba\/becky-hammon-wins-2022-coach-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">2022 WNBA Coach of the Year Award<\/a>, but the organization&#8217;s first-ever 2022 WNBA Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re starting to see a lot of women that are breaking into the NBA ranks and so they\u2019re just like, \u2018soak up as much as you can,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenexthoops.com\/wnba\/candice-dupree-explores-coaching-nba-assistant-coaches-program\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thenexthoops.com\/wnba\/candice-dupree-explores-coaching-nba-assistant-coaches-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dupree told TheNextHoops<\/a> in regard to advice she&#8217;s gotten from Dawn Staley and Ervin Monier, who was her coach at Temple. \u201cObviously, if I need any help from them [Staley and Monier], they\u2019re there. If I need to steal plays and everything else, I have that available as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the 2022-23 NBA season approaches, Dupree and other female coaches across the League are continuing to pave the way for future generations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Antonio Spurs are reportedly hiring former WNBA player Candice Dupree as their new assistant coach. Dupree was the sixth overall pick in the 2006 WNBA Draft and played for fifteen seasons in the W. The seven-time WNBA All-Star won a WNBA Championship in 2014 with the Phoenix Mercury. The news was initially reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":760503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,63826,62493,62719,21],"tags":[2086,1821,736,12990,110],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-760499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","category-san-antonio-spurs","category-wnba","tag-becky-hammon","tag-candice-dupree","tag-gregg-popovich","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760514,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760499\/revisions\/760514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760499"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=760499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}