Becky Hammon defended herself and the Aces' organization following the WNBA's announcement she had been suspended two games without pay and that a 2025 first-round draft pick had been taken from the franchise over the treatment of Dearica Hamby. More:
"I don't recall my relationship with Hamby being anything but on the up-and-up, and I'm just -- obviously along with the organization -- disappointed with the findings," Hammon said in a video call, which was scheduled before the penalties were announced."It's never [good] to have your name be associated with something like that, which is not who you are as a person. That's not how I operate. I did talk to my team; they were great.
"I never had one bad text between me and Dearica Hamby or email," Hammon said."First of all, I don't email my players. I talk to them directly. But we do exchange texts, and anything that is less than the up-and-up I can tell you is adamantly false and not true from any person in this organization." Hamby had been with the Aces' organization since 2015, when the franchise was still in San Antonio as the Stars. She agreed to a two-year contract extension in June. Hamby was then slowed by injury during the playoffs as Las Vegas won its first WNBA title.
Becky Hammon said she never bullied former Aces forward Dearica Hamby and expressed her frustration over the WNBA's decision to suspend her for two games and take a first-round draft pick from the team. The WNBA said it was penalizing Hammon and the Aces for"violating league and team Respect in the Workplace policies."
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