Becky Hammon & Bill Uglow

2. Assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs

3.  Rebecca “Becky” Hammon was born on
March 11, 1977 in Rapid City, South
Dakota.
 Oldest of three.
 High School accomplishments:
› South Dakota Miss Basketball
› South Dakota player of the year
› Voted female class athlete

4.  Attended Colorado State
› All-American while playing for the Rams
 Set all-time records
› 1998-1999 season- Sweet 16
› WAC player of the year
› 1999- Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as
best senior player under 5’8.
› 2004- inducted into the Colorado State
University Sports Hall of Fame.

5.  Played in the WNBA for the New York
Liberty
 2004- Became one of the team’s co-captains.
 2005- scored her 2000th WNBA career
pointAll-WNBA 2nd team
 2007- Rivas Futura in the Spanish league
 Traded to Silver Stars
› “Big Shot Becky”

6. August 2014- hired as an assistant coach for
the San Antonio Spurs
First full-time salaried female coach in NBA
history!

7.  Biggest challenge: she got the job on her basketball
ability and not because of her gender.
› “Obviously, this is great and it’s a tremendous honor, but I
think the bigger point is I'm getting hired because I'm
capable, because of my basketball IQ, and stuff that
they've seen in me personally”.
 She believes challenges build character and build a
persistence about herself; make her work and study
harder.
› ''All those little things that you go through year after year, it
builds something in you. Now, taking on this next
challenge, I know the same thing that got me through
those things are the fibers of what I'm made up of.”

8.  Travel’s weekly during the season
 Keeps track of offensive sets/actions,
defensive efficiency, and defensive
contests/ non-contests, missed
coverages, and individual player notes.
 1:32 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhF
q6w3prgQ

9. Vice President of Consumer Products &
Licensing for Professional Bull Riders

10.  Bachelor’s of science in business at
Florida Atlantic University
 Assisting & retail leasing (The MGM
Grand, Luxor, Monte Carlo, etc.)
 Negotiate locations for clients at
McCarran International Airport and for
high quality Las Vegas shopping centers.
 Co-founded iclicensing.com

11.  In college, he began his retail career working at JC
Penny.
 Merchandise operations at Walt Disney World.
 Promoted to the merchandising and product
development department.
 Merchandise manager for Walk Disney World.
 1993- MGM Grand Resort as its VP Retail Operator
› Designed each of the stores, hired staff 30 days before
opening
 1997- promoted to President of MGM Grand Retail
 Vice President of Consumer Products and Licensing
for Professional Bull Riders and SVP Consumer
Products and Licensing for United Football League.

12. “It is important to do a lot of transference
work moving ideas and concepts from
one industry to another. Bringing sound
to the merchandise brings light to the
products you are trying to sell. Get
involved with product development; the
more you know the better you will be”.

13.  What is your biggest professional
accomplishment?
› I held the unofficial title of having the lowest cost
of goods in the hospitality industry for many
years. And the second would be doing a lot of
product development. I am really a product
guy. The count is over 50,000.
 What is your biggest professional
disappointment?
› When MGM Mirage purchased Mandalay Resort
Group there was a group of us that wanted the
reverse to happen.

15.  http://billuglow.com/secure/index.htm
 http://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/2/5266
348/nba-assistant-coaches-tracking-stats
 http://sports.yahoo.com/news/spurs-hire-wnba-
star-becky-070429652--nba.html
 http://www.sportscareers.com/sports-career-
spotlight.asp?id=136