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I love and support the military and my brother and the people who have fought to defend our rights in this country.. Meyers Leonard of the Miami Heat chose to stand for the national anthem while the rest his teammates knelt on Saturday, during the team's reopening game against the Denver Nuggets ... Leonard, whose brother served as a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan, reportedly uses a military-themed backpack and has various friends who are Navy SEALs. Despite his public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, he says he couldn't bring himself to kneel in protest. ... he stood with...

Sources confirmed to The Washington Post that San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon will interview for the head coaching job with the Milwaukee Bucks. The news of Hammon’s interview was first reported by ESPN on Friday night. Hammon, 41, has spent the past four seasons working as an assistant under Gregg Popovich in San Antonio. When she was hired in 2014, she was the first full-time female assistant coach in any of the four major American pro sports, and she coached San Antonio’s Las Vegas summer league entry to the league title the following summer. Hammon spent 16 years...

On Thursday, the Colorado State athletic department officials announced they want to interview Becky Hammon for their men's basketball head-coaching job. The 40-year-old Hammon, a former WNBA star, played college basketball at Colorado State. She's currently an assistant coach for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. She became the first full-time female assistant coach in the NBA in 2014. Some NBA observers believe San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich is grooming her to be his replacement when he retires. In terms of Hammon's ability to control boys and young men once they get on campus and develop them into a successful unit,...

Bobby Marks who now offers incredible NBA insight on Twitter, recently said something sort of remarkable about San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon.

I was watching the Olympics tonight and came across the game between Russia and Australia in women's basketball.The announcer said a name that was vaguely familiar to me, Becky Hammon.Hammon was born in Rapid City, South Dakota. Hammon's father is a member of the United States Coast Guard.She played for Rapid City Stevens High School, Colorado State University, where she earned All-American honors and then for the WNBA's New York Liberty.Then a funny thing happened.Hammon was not selected to play for the US Olympic team, so, in order to have the opportunity to participate in an Olympics, she decided to...