There's no common thread among the seven hires; three are former college head coaches (Karl Smesko, Lynne Roberts and Johnson), three were WNBA assistants (Koclanes, Johnson and Tyler Marsh ...

Those intellectually uncurious times – those decades of unimaginative decisions – are so ingrained on today’s sports leaders that even a female WNBA owner like the Mystics’ Sheila Johnson has had only ...