Why can’t Dawn Staley get the [University of] Kentucky coaching job that’s open now that [John Calipari] left? This is the difference between the Big3 and a lot of other people: They are receptive to greatness.
Nancy Lieberman
She’d like to see the same standard applied in basketball, where NCAA coaches Dawn Staley and Kim Mulkey, NBA G League Coach of the Year Lindsey Harding and former NBA assistant and two-time WNBA champion coach Becky Hammon still aren’t considered for the sport’s top jobs.
“Why can’t Dawn Staley get the [University of] Kentucky coaching job that’s open now that [John Calipari] left?” Lieberman said. “This is the difference between the Big3 and a lot of other people: They are receptive to greatness … I am celebrated, not tolerated in the Big3, and that’s why I’m riding and dying with this group.”
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Ice Cube told ADWEEK that Caitlin Clark is “a once-in-a-lifetime player” whose specific effects on Big3 would be “undeniable.”
Meanwhile, his colleagues in the Big3 said the league’s offer to her is consistent with how the mogul has pursued talent since the league formed in 2017, and that’s why the $5 million contract offer isn’t going anywhere.
“It didn’t matter to him necessarily if there was a woman or a man: He wanted the Hall of Fame recognition, but he wanted people that he knew could win,” said Nikki Ambrifi, the Big3’s vp of sales strategy. “He just wants the best coaches and the best players to play for his league.”
