Longtime NBA assistant coach Phil Handy will develop into the head coach of an as-yet-unnamed team for the first time in the first season of the latest Unrivaled women’s skilled basketball league in 2025, sources tell Andscape.

The 3v3 league will debut in Miami in January 2025, and 36 basketball players will play in six teams. Unrivaled’s co-founders are WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier.

“I’m so excited to be a part of the first season of Unrivaled with some amazing coaches and athletes,” Handy told Andscape on Friday. “Supporting women in sport has been a long-standing passion of mine and I actually appreciate the opportunity to proceed to contribute to their development and success.

“I have always seen basketball as more than gender – it is about the skill, dedication and heart that athletes bring to the game. Exploring this deeper this off-season before the (WNBA) season starts in April feels like a meaningful and exciting way to stay connected to my roots. I love training athletes.”

Handy, 53, won three NBA championships as an assistant coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, the Toronto Raptors in 2019 and the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. The former University of Hawaii guard was an assistant coach with the Lakers from 2019-2024 . , Raptors from 2018-2019 and Cavaliers from 2013-2018, after serving as player development coach for the Lakers from 2011-2013. The San Leandro, California native is widely known for running improvement camps around the world and training elite players in the offseason, including the late Kobe Bryant, Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving and USC women’s basketball goaltender JuJu Watkins.

The inaugural season of Unrivaled will begin on January 17, 2025. Team assignments, rosters and schedules might be announced on November 20.

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LeBron James has the stats of somebody who has a few years of playing left in him. In his twenty second season, he even has his son as a teammate. The talented footballer hinted that he was nearing the end of his storied profession when he admitted to reporters that he “won’t be playing for long.”

After one other great game on November 13, the future NBA star didn’t give a precise timeline, but he did hint that it might be one other yr or two before he left the club.

According to , after 11 games and the team’s balance 7-4, the player is nearly 40 years old averaging 24.3 points, 9.4 assists and eight.1 rebounds, shooting 52% from the floor.

As he sat at his locker after a recent win over the Memphis Grizzlies, in which he recorded one other triple-double with 35 points, 14 assists and 12 rebounds, he was asked how long he would give you the option to proceed playing.

He replied, “It’s obviously not me; that is the mind. Wherever my thoughts are, that’s where the remainder of my body will go, or whatever happens. I do not know, I do not know. I’m not going to play any longer, to be completely honest. I do not know the way a few years it’s going to be, whether it’s going to be a yr or two, as the case could also be. One night I said I would not play until the wheels fell off. I won’t be that guy. I’m not going to be a man who disrespects the game because I just need to be on the court. It won’t be me.”

“Honestly, I’m not going to play anymore… I’m not going to play until the wheels fall off.”

Bron says he only has perhaps 1-2 years left 💔 pic.twitter.com/Z2gbimHnB6

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 14, 2024

The next game on the Lakers’ schedule is November 15 against the San Antonio Spurs. Regardless of what number of years James has left in the game and his record-breaking achievements in each season, he can only contribute to a legendary profession if he steps on the pitch and offers his all.

Andscape digital leader Erik Horne, columnist William C. Rhoden and JJT Media Group president Jean-Jacques Taylor come together to debate Colorado’s successful football season, what’s modified since last yr, whether the Buffaloes have College Football Playoff hopes and whether or not they deserve it. apology.