NEW ORLEANS — Moments after Zion Williamson’s exhilarating debut against the San Antonio Spurs on Jan. 22, the back hallway of the Smoothie King Center is wall to wall with basketball types.
Among the forest, the players all seem to make their way toward one person in particular with a fist bump or high-five on their way to the locker room: New Orleans Pelicans vice president of basketball operations/team development Swin Cash.
Cash was a multiple-time WNBA All-Star, a champion and Olympian following a historic career at the University of Connecticut.
And now, she’s the highest-ranking woman in basketball operations in the NBA after joining the Pelicans last June.