{"id":40981,"date":"2025-05-08T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/olympic-great-sue-bird-to-direct-us-womens-basketball-national-team\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:21:26","slug":"olympic-great-sue-bird-to-direct-us-womens-basketball-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/olympic-great-sue-bird-to-direct-us-womens-basketball-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic great Sue Bird to direct US women\u2019s basketball national team"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bird named managing director of US women\u2019s team<\/li>\n<li>Five-time Olympic champion to serve four-year term<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sue Bird is giving another assist to USA Basketball, becoming the managing director of the women\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Olympic champion was named to the newly created position Thursday and it marks a major change in the way the organization creates its roster and coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/08\/sue-bird-usa-basketball-managing-director\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird named managing director of US women\u2019s team Five-time Olympic champion to serve four-year term Sue Bird is giving another assist to USA Basketball, becoming the managing director of the women\u2019s national team. The five-time Olympic champion was named to the newly created position Thursday and it marks a major change in the way the &#8230; <a title=\"Olympic great Sue Bird to direct US women\u2019s basketball national team\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/olympic-great-sue-bird-to-direct-us-womens-basketball-national-team\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Olympic great Sue Bird to direct US women\u2019s basketball national team\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}