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Lindsey Harding Named Head Coach of NBA G League’s Stockton Kings
6/21/2023 3:40:00 PM | Women's Basketball
DURHAM – Former Duke women's basketball standout and WNBA star Lindsey Harding made history this week as she was tabbed the head coach for the Stockton Kings, the G League affiliate of the Sacramento Kings, on Tuesday – becoming just the second woman all-time to coach a professional men's basketball team in the U.S.
Harding joins Stockton after spending four seasons on the Sacramento bench as an assistant coach/player development coach. Prior to her time with the Kings, Harding was a player development coach with the Philadelphia 76ers after working as a pro personnel scout – the first Black woman to become a full-time NBA scout – for the club during the 2018-19 season. She began her coaching career with the Toronto Raptors Summer League team in 2017.
Also, an experienced international coach, Harding currently leads the Mexican Women's Senior National Team. In 2021, she was appointed head coach for the South Sudan Women's Senior National Team and led the team during the FIBA AfroBasket qualifier, the country's first time entering a women's tournament.
A nine-year veteran of the WNBA, Harding started 210 of the 270 career games she played in from 2007 to 2016. Her teams advanced to the WNBA playoffs in seven of the nine years she played with Minnesota, Washington, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Phoenix. Harding held career averages of 9.8 points, 4.0 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.1 steals. She was a WNBA All-Star choice in 2010 and represented Belarus in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil to close out her basketball career.
Harding earned both National Player of the Year and National Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2007 with Duke and helped lead the Blue Devils to a 128-12 record, three ACC regular season crowns, two ACC Tournament titles and four trips to the NCAA Tournament with a pair of appearances in the Final Four during her time in Durham. The three-time All-ACC and two-time All-America selection also received ACC Player of the Year accolades in 2007. Harding was also the recipient of the Mary Garber Award in 2007, an honor presented annually to the top female student-athlete in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
A three-time ACC All-Defensive selection and two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year honoree, Harding graduated as the school's all-time leader in assists (579) and closed her Duke career with 1,298 points, 565 rebounds and 261 steals per game. On Jan. 20, 2008, Harding's No. 10 jersey was hoisted to the rafters of historic Cameron Indoor Stadium to celebrate her accomplishments. She was enshrined into the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 21, 2018.
To stay up to date with Duke women's basketball, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWBB."
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Harding joins Stockton after spending four seasons on the Sacramento bench as an assistant coach/player development coach. Prior to her time with the Kings, Harding was a player development coach with the Philadelphia 76ers after working as a pro personnel scout – the first Black woman to become a full-time NBA scout – for the club during the 2018-19 season. She began her coaching career with the Toronto Raptors Summer League team in 2017.
Also, an experienced international coach, Harding currently leads the Mexican Women's Senior National Team. In 2021, she was appointed head coach for the South Sudan Women's Senior National Team and led the team during the FIBA AfroBasket qualifier, the country's first time entering a women's tournament.
A nine-year veteran of the WNBA, Harding started 210 of the 270 career games she played in from 2007 to 2016. Her teams advanced to the WNBA playoffs in seven of the nine years she played with Minnesota, Washington, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Phoenix. Harding held career averages of 9.8 points, 4.0 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.1 steals. She was a WNBA All-Star choice in 2010 and represented Belarus in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil to close out her basketball career.
Harding earned both National Player of the Year and National Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2007 with Duke and helped lead the Blue Devils to a 128-12 record, three ACC regular season crowns, two ACC Tournament titles and four trips to the NCAA Tournament with a pair of appearances in the Final Four during her time in Durham. The three-time All-ACC and two-time All-America selection also received ACC Player of the Year accolades in 2007. Harding was also the recipient of the Mary Garber Award in 2007, an honor presented annually to the top female student-athlete in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
A three-time ACC All-Defensive selection and two-time ACC Defensive Player of the Year honoree, Harding graduated as the school's all-time leader in assists (579) and closed her Duke career with 1,298 points, 565 rebounds and 261 steals per game. On Jan. 20, 2008, Harding's No. 10 jersey was hoisted to the rafters of historic Cameron Indoor Stadium to celebrate her accomplishments. She was enshrined into the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 21, 2018.
To stay up to date with Duke women's basketball, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWBB."
#GoDuke
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