Becky Hammon Biography

A retired Professional Basketball player, Becky Hammon is an American assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). She played for the ‘San Antonio Stars’ and ‘New York Liberty’ of the Women’s National Basketball Association.

As of 2019, Becky Hammon enjoys an impressive net worth of over $500,000. She became the first female assistant coach of NBA when the Spurs hired her in 2014. To know more about Hammon’s salary, NBA career, personal life, affairs and so on, stay tuned until the end!

Becky Hammon Net Worth and Salary

Hammon is a rising NBA coach who has a net worth of $500,000. The 41-year-old, Hammon handled the assistant duties and led San Antonio to a Summer League Championship in 2015. As a result, her salary as a coach was also increased.

Back in 2007, Hammon earned over $95,000 which was then the highest salary in Women’s basketball. Later, she was offered a four-year deal worth of $2 million by a Russian team called C.S.K.A.

What is Becky Hammon Salary? Know who is the highest paid coach in 2019

As of now, Becky Hammon earns an annual salary of $100,000 as an assistant coach. However, this salary is way less than the NBA Men’s basketball coach.

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Currently, Mike Krzyzewski is the highest paid Men’s NBA coach with a salary of $8.98 million. On the other hand, Pat Summitt is the highest paid Women’s Basketball coach with a salary of around $2 million.

Becky Hammon Personal life, Married, Relationship

Talking about Becky Hammon’s personal life, she is possibly single. She has been one of the most talked WNBA personality over the years. Hence, people always get curious to know whether she is married or not.

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As a fact, Hammon was rumored to be a lesbian after her pictures with Brenda Milano circulated on the internet. There hasn’t been an official announcement if Hammon is a lesbian or not.

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However, looking at her social accounts such as Instagram we found that Hammon is often photographed with a lot of female colleagues. Hence, it would be wrong to say that she is a Lesbian as there isn’t any authentic claim from her side.

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In addition, when Hammon was hired by the Spurs, news circulated that she was in a romantic relationship with Tony Parker, a professional Basketball Player. Later, the news was dismissed as a false statement.

Further, there is no information regarding her past affairs, boyfriends, husband, and children. With a rising career as a top coach, she might be completely focused on her profession.

Becky Hammon Early life

Becky Hammon was born as Rebecca Lynn on March 11, 1977, in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a natural-born citizen of the United States, but later became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2008.

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Hammon learned to dribble a basketball at a very young age and continued to hone her skills on her home court. In addition, she was raised as a devout Christian.

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Hammon played basketball at Stevens High School in her hometown of South Dakota. Further, as a junior, she was named South Dakota Miss Basketball. She graduated in 1995 and was voted female class athlete by her graduating class.

Becky Hammon Career

Talking about Hammon’s WNBA career, she was signed to WNBA in 1999 and she joined New York Liberty.

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Hammon is mostly noted for her aggressive style of play and scoring from both ends of the court. This made her popular among the Liberty fans. For information, she scored 5000 career points from the WNBA making her the seventh player in WNBA history to have scored those points.

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In addition, Hammon has played for several teams such as New York Liberty, Trentino Rovereto Basket, Rivas Ecopolis, San Antonio Stars, CSKA Moscow, Ros Casares Valencia, Orenburg, and Spartak.

After retiring as the professional basketball player, Becky started coaching for the San Antonio Spurs as a full-time assistant coach. She was hired by the Spurs in 2014.

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Hammon led the Spurs to the Las Vegas Summer League Championship on July 20, 2015. Hammon became the first woman to be part of an All-Star coaching staff at the 2016 NBA All-Star Game.

Currently, Hammon serves as the top assistant coach for the Spurs.

Becky Hammon Age, Height, Facts

• As of Feb 2019, she has over 51k Instagram followers with 95.9k Instagram and around 62k Twitter followers

• Female Basketball Star
• San Antonio Spurs
• WNBA