Becky Hammon

Becky Hammon

Hammon coaching the Aces in 2024
Las Vegas Aces
Position	Head coach
League	WNBA
Personal information
Born	(1977-03-11) March 11, 1977 (age 47) Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.
Nationality	American, Russian
Listed height	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Listed weight	136 lb (62 kg)
Career information
High school	Stevens (Rapid City, South Dakota)
College	Colorado State (1995–1999)
WNBA draft	1999: undrafted
Playing career	1999–2014
Position	Point guard
Number	25
Coaching career	2014–present
Career history
As player:
1999–2006	New York Liberty
2001–2002	Trentino Rovereto Basket
2006–2007	Rivas Ecópolis
2007–2014	San Antonio Stars
2007–2009	CSKA Moscow
2009–2010	Ros Casares Valencia
2010–2011	Nadezhda Orenburg
2011–2012	Spartak Moscow Region
As coach:
2014–2021	San Antonio Spurs (assistant)
2022–present	Las Vegas Aces
Career highlights and awards
As player: 6× WNBA All-Star (2003, 2005–2007, 2009, 2011) 2× All-WNBA First Team (2007, 2009) 2× All-WNBA Second Team (2005, 2008) WNBA assists leader (2007) WNBA 15th Anniversary Team (2011) WNBA 20th Anniversary Team (2016) WNBA 25th Anniversary Team (2021) WNBA Three-Point Shootout champion (2009) WNBA Skills Challenge Champion (2007) No. 25 retired by San Antonio Stars/Las Vegas Aces Spanish League champion (2010) Queen's Cup winner (2010) Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award (1996) First-team All-American – AP (1999) All-American – Kodak, USBWA (1999) 3x WAC Player of the Year (1997–1999) 4x First-team All-WAC (1996–1999) WAC Tournament MVP (1996) WAC Freshman of the Year (1996) WAC All-Freshman Team (1996) As head coach: 2× WNBA champion (2022, 2023) Commissioner's Cup champion (2022) WNBA Coach of the Year (2022) NBA Las Vegas Summer League champion (2015)
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2023
Medals Representing  United States Jones Cup 1998 Taipei Team competition Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing National Team EuroBasket 2009 Latvia Team competition

Rebecca Lynn Hammon (Russian: Ребекка Линн Хэммон; born March 11, 1977) is a Russian-American professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She previously served as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A three-time All-American basketball player for the Colorado State Rams, Hammon went on to play for the San Antonio Stars and New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for several other teams outside the United States. Hammon was born and raised in the United States, but she became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2008 and represented the Russian national team in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.^[1]

Hammon was hired by the San Antonio Spurs as an assistant coach in 2014. Hammon served as the team's Summer League head coach in 2015; she is the first woman to be a head coach in the Summer League.^[2] On December 30, 2020, Hammon became the first female acting head coach in NBA history after Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich was ejected during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers. A year later in December 2021, she was hired by the Las Vegas Aces to be their head coach. Hammon previously played for the Aces from 2007 to 2014 when the team played in San Antonio and was known as the Stars, and has her number retired by the organization. On August 12, 2023, Hammon was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, becoming the first Russian in the basketball hall of fame.^[3]