The Chicago Sky hired former Atlanta Dream head coach Tanisha Wright as an assistant, the team announced in a Saturday tweet.
Wright spent 15 years in the WNBA after being selected with the 12th pick by the Seattle Storm in the 2005 draft. The former Penn State guard suited up for the Storm, New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx. She averaged 7.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game in her lengthy WNBA career. The seven-time All-Defensive selection won a championship with the Storm in 2010. Wright and a handful of WNBA legends, including former Sky forward Swin Cash, would prevail over the Dream in a three-game sweep.
Wright was first hired by Atlanta to take over their head coaching duties in 2021. She had spent two seasons as an assistant for the Las Vegas Aces and four with the Charlotte 49ers before taking on her first WNBA head coaching role. Wright's Dream teams went 48-68 and saw two trips to the playoffs in her three seasons with Atlanta. Former Chicago forward Cheyenne Parker, who was a top-5 selection for the Sky in 2015, suited up for the Dream in all three of Wright's seasons with the squad.
Wright will join Sky assistant coach Courtney Paris, who was brought aboard as an assistant last month. Paris played in 10 seasons in the WNBA, including two in Seattle, after an illustrious collegiate career at Oklahoma. Both will work with newly-hired head coach Tyler Marsh, who was named the next head coach of the Windy City franchise in November. Marsh was an assistant for the Aces just one season after Wright left to take on the head coaching duties with the Dream. He was an assistant for Las Vegas alongside now-Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase.
All three will be tasked with coaching up a Sky roster with two high-potential bigs in Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso. The Sky went 13-27 in 2024. They missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2018 season. Along with the No. 3 and No. 10 picks in this year's draft, the Sky have the third-most cap space in the league heading into this year's free agency period, according to Spotrac.