With Hammon officially becoming a head coach for the first time Friday, taking over the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, Popovich said it's time for her to write this new chapter in her basketball career.

Aces head coach Becky Hammon explains where the team went wrong in Thursday's poor shooting performance vs. Fever ...

Hammon, 44, has been a part of Popovich's coaching staff for six years. The sports world often speculates when an opportunity will come knocking for Hammon to break barriers again and become an ...

Hammon has a reputation of being a smart, hard-nosed, tough-minded player. She made six All-Star teams and averaged 13.1 points in her 16 seasons with the Stars and New York Liberty.

And I think it was something that both (Popovich) and myself tried to manage as well ... “It got to the point where if I wasn’t at a game, it was kind of like, “Where’s Becky at?’ ” Hammon said.

Hammon, now coach of the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, would also become the first female head summer league coach in the NBA and first female acting head coach when she replaced Popovich for a game in 2020.

In 2012, Hammon was the top vote-getter for the Stars' All-Decade Team. The Spurs hired European coaching legend Ettore Messina to join Popovich's staff earlier this summer.

Hammon plans to retire from the San Antonio Stars after this season. She joins South Carolina assistant Lisa Boyer, who served on John Lucas’s staff in Cleveland in 2001-02, as women to coach in ...

Hammon has a reputation of being a smart, hard-nosed, tough-minded player. She made six All-Star teams and averaged 13.1 points in her 16 seasons with the Stars and New York Liberty.

In this July 14, 2015, file photo, Becky Hammon, center, coaches for the San Antonio Spurs' during the second half of an NBA summer league basketball game against Portland Trail Blazers in Las Vegas.

"Very different," Hammon said of the Fever with and without Clark, per a YouTube video from The Ballers Magazine. "I think ...

Aces coach Becky Hammon called the losing effort "three quarters of trash" and ripped her team over its lack of effort in a contest that was never particularly close. The Fever jumped out to a ...