Pelicans add two to coaching staff

NEW ORLEANS (AP) The New Orleans Pelicans have hired Teresa Weatherspoon and AJ Diggs as assistant coaches with a focus on player development.

The club says the two new assistants have been assigned to work closely with the Pelicans’ two-way players and will travel with them to and from their assignments with New Orleans’ G League affiliate, the Erie BayHawks.

Weatherspoon, who this year was inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, has spent the previous four seasons as the Director of Player and Franchise Development with the WNBA’s New York Liberty. Before that, she coached at Louisiana Tech, where, as a player, she won a national championship in 1988. Weatherspoon also played professionally in Europe and in the WNBA.

Diggs has had several coaching positions in the G League, most recently with Raptors 905. He also has coached with the Maine Red Claws and Austin Spurs.

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