However, economic and cultural barriers remain that could limit the success of a WNBA to NBA coaching pathway. “Our goal with this is to … have detailed information on all the careers of all of our assistant coaches that will be valuable for teams formulating ideas on who they would want to hire, both as head coaches and assistant coaches,” said Carlisle. According to the New York Times, even at $50,000, Toliver would have been paid 50% less than the lowest-paid NBA assistant. Toliver accepted the role at $10,000, a tiny amount when some NBA assistant coaches make $1m a year. There too lies an opportunity to help increase the amount of women coaching NBA teams.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2019 09:00 UTC