Silver wants a female coach in the league...

[ShulaDon92]

So we shouldn't ever give a female a chance unless she is a genius, whereas men can be coaches when they are not genius'?

You wrote fast. I was having the same notion as i edited it.


Could she be mediocre? Why her in mediocrity?

Well of course she could be mediocre… any coach you hire is a gamble and no guarantee they’re gonna be great. Why do we have this worry when a woman is discussed and not a man?

Probably because its a mens basketball league and they want someone that can relate. Plus being able to think like a testicular being might be an edge, hence men.

That's the only advantages i can think of...

[YogurtProducer]

You wrote fast. I was having the same notion as i edited it.


Could she be mediocre? Why her in mediocrity?

Well of course she could be mediocre… any coach you hire is a gamble and no guarantee they’re gonna be great. Why do we have this worry when a woman is discussed and not a man?

Probably because its a mens basketball league and they want someone that can relate. Plus being able to think like a testicular being might be an edge, hence men.

That's the only advantages i can think of...

So why can men coach a women’s basketball league?

[ShulaDon92]

As a gm, im interested in interviewing the best minds, bar none. I want to see strategies.

We're going to war, boys. We cooking these boyz

[ShulaDon92]

Well of course she could be mediocre… any coach you hire is a gamble and no guarantee they’re gonna be great. Why do we have this worry when a woman is discussed and not a man?

Probably because its a mens basketball league and they want someone that can relate. Plus being able to think like a testicular being might be an edge, hence men.

That's the only advantages i can think of...

So why can men coach a women’s basketball league?

Exactly. Cause there's not enough women which is why Silver is on some BS. Fill up the wnba with women coaches first, numbnuts!

That's why she's gotta be a genius, my friend.

Mic drop

[ShulaDon92]

Actually Silvers a genius cause in even doing the soundbyte he raises awareness to women, like "hey you can be an elite level coach".

He gets the word out there. Im fine with this.

[ShulaDon92]

Conclusively, im expecting a gdang genius.

[TravisScott55]

NBA always trying to be woke

[LuDux1]

[Onlytimewilltel]

Becky could of been one by now but it will come... If it fails then what?

I would imagine the earth would keep on spinning?

[Onlytimewilltel]

You wrote fast. I was having the same notion as i edited it.


Could she be mediocre? Why her in mediocrity?

Well of course she could be mediocre… any coach you hire is a gamble and no guarantee they’re gonna be great. Why do we have this worry when a woman is discussed and not a man?

Probably because its a mens basketball league and they want someone that can relate. Plus being able to think like a testicular being might be an edge, hence men.

That's the only advantages i can think of...

Hmm, wouldn’t most dudes on a basketball team be a bit more comfortable with a male coach in the locker room and all the usual “locker room banter” can go on without watching their mouth to make sure they don’t offend a female coach?

Also, with the whole Ime Udoka fiasco, it makes you wonder if teams are also evaluating that more going forward and wondering if you’re taking on additional risk by this female coach potentially spreading her legs for one of the players?

With udoka, teams are not as worried about him fu*king the players on his team but bringing on a female coach there is a little bit of that concern.

I understand that for a coach to get that high level of job obviously she’d have a good amount of professionalism. But nature is nature you never know, sometimes things “just happen” as women explain to their soon to be ex husbands in movies

[HanzGruber]

This will make all the usual people big mad.

But there is no problem here despite their forthcoming efforts to create one.

The usual people are going to have a cow over this, which pretty much proves Silver's point.

What will it prove? That we hate women? How about not forcing a quota and just hiring the best person for the job. Not just to say you did it

[mack2354]

It's just going to take an owner with a pair to get it done. As some people have already said there have been women who were qualified to coach already. Becky Hammon being the most reason one. Pat Summit could have coached in the NBA and I find it hard to believe she wouldn't have been universally respected from players, to other coaches, to the media, etc. It'll happen eventually.

[JN61]

We all know fragile egos of NBA players couldn't take orders from women. They barely can tolerate it from veteran male coaches.

[Fellow72]

Let's be honest, having a female coach is a pretty dumb idea. One of the most important aspects of coaching is having the respect of the players, and a female coach will never have the respect of male players because females have not done anything significant in the sport of basketball. The WNBA is still a joke and yet they want a female coach who will obviously be underqualified to lead a male team? Women need to fix their own sports before taking leadership positions in our own.

[-Luke-]

I haven't read the entire thread, so maybe someone has already written something similar, but I wouldn't call it bias. Coaches are often recruited among former players who know the league, who know the teams, etc. Deserving players then get a job as an assistant coach with their former teams and if they prove themselves there, they may get promoted. This is not bias. Only men play in the NBA, that's just reality.

I also don't see what Silver's point is. In my opinion, all the attention will only make things worse if a woman really does become a head coach in the NBA. The media attention and pressure will be enormous and it will be treated completely different than if a man had gotten the job. Why not see it as a normal hire if it happens? Statements like Silver's do exactly the opposite of what his possible goal is.

We used to be further along as a society. The ideal used to be that gender, skin color or sexual orientation should not play a role in whether someone gets a job, how someone is treated in court or whether I like someone or not. People should be judged by their actions. But for a few years now, those old ideals have been completely abandoned and people are just talking about gender, skin color or sexual orientation and setting people against each other. In my opinion, this is definitely not progress.

I also agree what some others wrote here that Silver is pretty hypocritical here. If it's so important to him that women get high-level jobs in the NBA, he should resign and appoint a woman as his successor. When you point a finger at others, three fingers on the same hand point back at you.

[FreeThrowLine]

Why is he assuming none of the existing coaches identify as female? That's how it works now right?

[nbhadja]

Why is he assuming none of the existing coaches identify as female? That's how it works now right?

Lol true. If you notice they don't actually believe that unless they are virtue signaling in a debate.

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[monopoman]

I haven't read the entire thread, so maybe someone has already written something similar, but I wouldn't call it bias. Coaches are often recruited among former players who know the league, who know the teams, etc. Deserving players then get a job as an assistant coach with their former teams and if they prove themselves there, they may get promoted. This is not bias. Only men play in the NBA, that's just reality.

I also don't see what Silver's point is. In my opinion, all the attention will only make things worse if a woman really does become a head coach in the NBA. The media attention and pressure will be enormous and it will be treated completely different than if a man had gotten the job. Why not see it as a normal hire if it happens? Statements like Silver's do exactly the opposite of what his possible goal is.

We used to be further along as a society. The ideal used to be that gender, skin color or sexual orientation should not play a role in whether someone gets a job, how someone is treated in court or whether I like someone or not. People should be judged by their actions. But for a few years now, those old ideals have been completely abandoned and people are just talking about gender, skin color or sexual orientation and setting people against each other. In my opinion, this is definitely not progress.

I also agree what some others wrote here that Silver is pretty hypocritical here. If it's so important to him that women get high-level jobs in the NBA, he should resign and appoint a woman as his successor. When you point a finger at others, three fingers on the same hand point back at you.

No matter what it will be a news worthy event when it happens, even if Silver doesn't say a damn thing once it happens it will make headlines. Acting like we can actually hire a woman head coach and no one will care is not something will happen with the first or even the second one, maybe the 5th or 6th one might just be a normal thing at that point.

It's basically like saying when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier no one noticed.

[KingDavid]

What he actually said:

Read on Twitter

"If I were out looking to hire a coach right now, I'd say there's a market irregularity, there's clearly a bias in the system against women," Silver said. "Now part of it is there's no shortcuts to developing a new pool of candidates, and that's what we're going through now. That's I think why you're seeing, you know, seven female assistants because still you want people to be developed, to come up the ranks, to sort of learn the profession, learn it in the assistant ranks and then work their way up.

"But so, I don't want to put a precise number on it. I'd say, I would be hugely disappointed if, certainly, in five years, we haven't seen our first female head coach in the NBA."

Could be shooting himself in the foot with those remarks. WNBA players just got another weapon to try and get more pay even though they don't produce any money.

But that's not this topic. I'm changing my tune from the last thread about this topic. Maybe the players will be accepting and respect a woman as a direct leader as head coach. I want to see it happen from an intersexual/intergender dynamics perspective.

[Pelon chingon]

It would be inevitable that one day that female coach would be involved in a romantic relationship with a player. Better to just avoid the whole situation all together.