There was a time in Brittney Griner’s life when a mid-season coaching change might have been tough to handle. wnba brittneygriner sports kprc2 click2hou
The Phoenix Mercury announced on Sunday that they had fired coach Vanessa Nygaard following a 2-10 start to the season and elevated assistant coach Nikki Blue to the top spot. Griner — who— said she's taken those changes in stride as the franchise tries to right its season.
Griner said she was appreciative of everything Nygaard did for her during the past 1 1/2 seasons, but was also excited Blue would get her first chance as a WNBA head coach. Blue joined the Mercury coaching staff last season and has 15 years of coaching experience in the WNBA and college.Nygaard took over the team last season and went 17-31. It wasn’t an easy year-and-a-half for Nygaard, with Griner missing all of last season while she was detained in Russia.
"I'd like to thank Vanessa for all the things she did for our organization. She managed through a lot of adversity over the last year and a half, but at the end of the day, professional sports is a results-oriented business and we're 2-10.” “A lot of teams don't have veterans like Brittney Griner or Diana Taurasi,” Blue said. “It's nice when something like this goes down in the organization, to have those veterans be a calming factor and a calming piece.”
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