The New York Liberty have found their new head coach.
The 2024 WNBA champions have agreed to a deal with Golden State Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco, a league source confirmed to Front Office Sports.
The top job had sat open in Brooklyn for two months after the team fired Sandy Brondello in September.
The Warriors declined to comment.
The Liberty squeaked out the 2024 title under Brondello and were off to a hot start in 2025 before injuries derailed their season. Most of their veteran stars, including Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu, and Jonquel Jones, are set to be free agents when the WNBA and its players reach a collective bargaining agreement. (Stewart has said she plans to return.)
New York GM Jonathan Kolb defended the firing in September and the team reportedly focused its search on coaches with NBA experience.
DeMarco, 40, has been a Golden State assistant for more than a decade. Steve Kerr retained DeMarco on his staff after taking over from Mark Jackson and DeMarco was present for all four Warriors titles under Kerr.
Brondello ended up in Toronto on a contract that pays her more than a million dollars a year. Though information about DeMarco’s salaries with the Warriors and Liberty was not immediately available, the highest-paid NBA assistants have received deals in the $2 million range.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
