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NBA commissioner Adam Silver believes the league is long overdue for its first female head coach, and he already has a timeline in mind for when he expects it to occur.
“I could be hugely disillusioned if actually in five years we’ve not seen our first female head coach within the NBA,” Silver told Bonnie Bernstein on the NCAA’s podcast channel, per Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports.
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