wouldn’t return for a 14th season as she entered the final year of her contract. It is the first college head-coaching job for the 39-year-old Lawson, who played under Pat Summitt at Tennessee before a long WNBA career as well as work in broadcasting.Lawson played in the WNBA from 2003-15 and won the 2005 championship with Sacramento.
She also was part of the U.S. Olympic team that won a gold medal in Beijing in 2008. She had also worked as a TV commentator for NBA and college basketball games before the Celtics hired her in June 2019.Duke is the second Atlantic Coast Conference program this offseason to hire a woman working as an NBA assistant to be its head coach.