Becky Hammon apologized to her players this week. Her Las Vegas Aces were soundly beaten by the New York Liberty in a sloppy, listless Game 2 of the WNBA semifinals, pushing their season to the brink. They were then soundly beaten by Hammon, who took them to task in her news conference, ripping apart their mentality during their title defense this season. She did not regret the substance of her message, exactly, but she did regret the delivery.
“It was not great wording on my part to convey what I wanted to convey, and probably not the greatest timing,” Hammon said at shootaround on Friday. “So I apologized to them as a group.”
