While Brittni Donaldson isn’t the first female assistant coach to be hired in the NBA, she is certainly the youngest. At only 26 years old, Ujiri let her transfer from her front office role to the pinewood bench to support Nurse and the Toronto Raptors coaching staff.
According to ESPN, Donaldson is the fifth female assistant coach hired just this summer. Meanwhile, she is the tenth female assistant currently employed in the NBA.
Interestingly, Donaldson seems to have taken a different route to end up as an assistant compared to other female assistants. Donaldson grew up playing basketball and played in college, but she didn’t play professionally nor has a long history of coaching so far.