What are the other options? Honestly? Doc Rivers, who has underachieved repeatedly with elite talent? Budenholzer again, who would've been fired had he not come back from down 2-0 twice?

There is no surefire bet. But there's the person who's been the best candidate in the league for years and has been passed up repeatedly because of her gender, then went and dominated the best job she could get. If Hammon was a man, she would already have a HC job in the NBA, there is zero doubt of that.

There are two reasons to not hire her: sexism and fear.