Coaching changes: Fever's Sides is sixth coach to be fired this offseason
Shortly after the 2024 WNBA playoffs opened, the Los Angeles Sparks parted ways with coach Curt Miller on Sept. 24. Five more coaches have since been fired.
And when the 2025 season tips off, there will be at least six new head coaches to open a season for the first time since the WNBA launched, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
The Golden State Valkyries, the WNBA’s first expansion team since 2008, have also hired a head coach for their inaugural season. Natalie Nakase was named the team’s first coach on Oct. 10.
We’re tracking all the coaching changes this offseason.
Last updated: Oct. 27, 2024
Former coach: Tanisha Wright (fired Oct. 2)
Wright was 48-68 in three seasons, leading the Dream to the playoffs in 2023 and 2024.
MORE: What Wright’s firing means for Dream, WNBA coaching landscape
Former coach: Teresa Weatherspoon (fired Sept. 26)
Weatherspoon was 13-27 in one season with the Sky, who were in playoff contention for much of the second half of the season despite losing rookie Angel Reese to a wrist injury for the final six games of the regular season.
MORE: What’s next for Sky, Reese, Weatherspoon?
Former coach: Latricia Trammell (fired Oct. 18)
Trammell was 31-49 in two seasons with the Wings, who went 9-31 and missed the playoffs this season after going 22-18 and reaching the semifinals in 2023.
Former coach: Christie Sides (fired Oct. 27)
Sides was 33-47 in two seasons with the Fever, including a 20-20 record this season, when she led Indiana to its first playoff berth since 2016.
MORE: What are Fever looking for in Sides’ successor?
Former coach: Curt Miller (fired Sept. 24)
Miller was 25-55 in two seasons with the Sparks, who were a league-worst 8-32 this summer, enduring a series of injures, including to rookie Cameron Brink.
MORE: Why the Sparks, Miller parted ways, and what’s next
Former coach: Eric Thibault (fired Oct. 23)
Thibault, who was let go along with his father, Mystics general manager Mike Thibault, was 33-47 in two seasons, including a 14-26 mark this season, when Washington finished one game behind the eighth and final playoff team in the standings.
MORE: What the Thibaults’ exit means for the Mystics, WNBA coaching vacancies
