The Phoenix Mercury announced Sunday that they have fired head mentor Vanessa Nygaard right after the staff began 2-10 this period. Nikki Blue has been named interim head mentor.
Nygaard was in her 2nd period as the Mercury’s head coach, getting taken above for Sandy Brondello in January 2022 immediately after Brondello still left for the Liberty. Prior to coaching Phoenix, Nygaard spent a calendar year as an assistant coach for the Aces and a ten years as the head coach of the Windward Faculty high faculty women basketball crew in Los Angeles.
Final calendar year, Phoenix went 15-21, the to start with time considering the fact that the 2012 year that the Mercury lost about 20 video games, and misplaced in the first round of the WNBA playoffs. So considerably this year, the Mercury have the worst file in the league.
Mercury components strategies with Head Coach Vanessa Nygaard, names Nikki Blue Interim Head Mentor for the remainder of 2023 time. pic.twitter.com/bYdPEX7V7W
— Phoenix Mercury (@PhoenixMercury) June 25, 2023
Blue, who played in the WNBA from 2006 to ’10, can take more than as the interim coach just after signing up for the staff as an assistant previous calendar year. Formerly, Blue served as an assistant coach at 4 distinctive colleges.
