UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- The doubters have come at Becky Hammon for as long as she can remember.
They said the 5-foot-6 guard from Rapid City, South Dakota, was too short and too slow to be a Division I college basketball star. That she couldn't play in the WNBA. She wouldn't succeed on an NBA bench. And she wasn't ready to be a head coach.
An All-American, an undrafted rookie who became a six-time WNBA All-Star, and a former longtime assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs, Hammon has made a career of proving people wrong.