First Women to Assistant Coach in NBA History

Becky Hammon, 37, a six-time All-Star with the WNBA's has just been hired as a full time assistant coach to the Antonio Stars. She will be the first women ever in NBA history to be hired as any type of coach in the NBA period (and the first in all of the NFL and MLB). If the glass backboard behind the hoop is women's proverbial NBA glass ceiling, Hammon just shattered it in an awesome slam dunk. 

Mother Jones reports that, "Notably, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) named the NBA the leading sports league for gender diversity in its annual report, adding that while women aren't as represented as they could be, the league still handily beat MLB and the NFL. Forty percent of the NBA's league office is staffed by women, helping it earn a B+ grade from TIDES. (The MLB and NFL got C+ and C grades, respectively.)"