{"id":273108,"date":"2025-10-02T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:43:11","slug":"wnba-finals-bound-mercury-offer-a-blueprint-for-liberty-coaching-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273108\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Finals-bound Mercury offer a blueprint for Liberty coaching search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts didn\u2019t receive a warm welcome from the public when he was hired two years ago this month.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Nick U\u2019Ren\u2019s decision to appoint Tibbetts, a man who had no experience coaching in the women\u2019s game, was met with harsh criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Not only were people upset by his lack of affiliation with women\u2019s basketball, but others voiced diversity concerns.<\/p>\n<p>But two years later, Tibbetts has muted the scrutiny and coached the Mercury back into the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercury coach Nate Tibbetts didn\u2019t receive a warm welcome from the public when he was hired two years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":273109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1520,1502,62,2225,67,132,68,232,105313],"class_list":{"0":"post-273108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-new-york-liberty","9":"tag-phoenix-mercury","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-plus","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wnba","16":"tag-wnba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115307230433187349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}