内容摘要：Edwina Wilson stands in what is left of her destroyed home, Sunday, May 18, 2025, in London, Ky., after a severe storm passed through the area. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Edwina Wilson stands in what is left of her destroyed home, Sunday, May 18, 2025, in London, Ky., after a severe storm passed through the area. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Her father “not only (held) me accountable but, he set higher and higher standards because I think if you believe in yourself — in this — then I want to push you to this,” Nakase said. “If your expectations are here, I want to push you even higher.”That’s not to say she won’t be there for players off the court.

Nakase said her “responsibility is to be with them every single day, every single moment, check in, ‘Are we good today?’”Nakase will be one of four head coaches of color in the WNBA this season.The other three are Black, but that number is

. Within that subset, Seattle Storm coach Noelle Quinn is the only other female. In 2022, Latricia Trammell became the first Native American or Alaska Native head coach. The Dallas Wings, however, fired her after two seasons.Only one-fourth of the head coaches in the league are Black, which is a sharp contrast to the fact that roughly 64% of WNBA players are Black or African American, according to a 2023 report from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. Hispanic/Latina and Asian players each account for 1.4%. Those who identify as mixed race amount to nearly 11%.

The WNBA is on track to expand to 16 teams by 2028. Toronto — the first outside the U.S. — and Portland, Oregon, will have franchises next year.

This is all happening as women’s sports at college and professional levels have seen a popularity surge in the last few years. Nakase was a Los Angeles Clippers assistant coach for 10 years before she joined the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces in a similar role. In 2023, after the Aces won back-to-back championships, Nakase noticed a shift in interest.Trump has demonstrated that he steers business to those who ingratiate themselves to him — look no further than his promotion of Elon Musk’s Tesla — and punishes those who don’t, like Amazon during Trump’s first term and law firms, universities and a growing list of institutions in his second.

“He wants the vanity of people coming in to kiss his ring,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, CEO of Yale University’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute. He said the behavior by CEOs, while obsequious, often resulted in better treatment and free publicity from the government.It’s not just U.S. business people paying heed. On Monday, a French executive turned up in the Oval Office with Trump.

The president thanked Bernard Arnault’s French luxury company LVMH for the “Medals of Sacrifice” made by its subsidiary, Tiffany & Co., as Trump presented them to the families of three sheriff’s deputies from Palm Beach County, Florida, who were killed in the line of duty.LVMH stock has fallen this year as tariffs threaten a business that sells everything from designer handbags to champagne. But Trump had only the fondest of praise as he told Arnault’s son, Alexandre, who was representing the company: “Thank you very much, Alexandre. I appreciate that you came. He came all the way from France.”