Liberty parted ways with Brondello<\/a> during the offseason, less than a year after she led New York to the WNBA title in a thrilling five-game series against the Lynx.<\/p>\nNevertheless, New York had trouble finding its footing this past season and was eliminated by the Phoenix Mercury in the opening round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n
DeMarco joined Golden State in 2012 as an assistant coach under then-Warriors head coach Mark Jackson. When Steve Kerr was brought on as head coach in 2014, he instantly formed a relationship with DeMarco and hired him to his staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chris DeMarco poses outside Barclays Center after being introduced as the Liberty\u2019s new head coach on Dec. 10, 2025. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
DeMarco has also been the Bahamian men\u2019s national team coach since 2019.<\/p>\n
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Kerr, on Monday, spoke highly of DeMarco and of what was truly a transformative day.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, we just went and saw his office, his new office,\u201d Kerr told reporters before Monday\u2019s game in Brooklyn. \u201cWhat a strange day for him, you know, to come to his new arena, go to his new office, come back to our locker room, help us play a game, try to win a game, and then that\u2019s it. He\u2019s staying here, and it\u2019s almost surreal. So, he\u2019s been a great coach, great friend. I\u2019m going to miss him. Twelve years with him, and hugely valuable to our team. He\u2019s kind of done it all.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he\u2019s really become a great friend, and I really miss him. He\u2019s a huge part of our staff, and we\u2019re going to have to fill in the void that he leaves, both strategically and just who he is as a person, what he means to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regarded as an offensive specialist, DeMarco\u2019s heralded for the development of Jordan Poole, who now plays for the Pelicans. During Golden State\u2019s 2022 NBA title run, Poole developed into an ideal scorer off the bench and helped lead the Warriors to their fourth title in eight years.<\/p>\n
In New York, DeMarco will be taking over a talented team led by veterans Ionescu, Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 13 years with the Warriors, assistant coach Chris DeMarco saw his journey with the team come to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,160,479,164,4025,4024,6,3801,66,255,458],"class_list":{"0":"post-506679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-golden-state","11":"tag-golden-state-warriors","12":"tag-goldenstate","13":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york-liberty","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-warriors","18":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115811871980579428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Assistant coach Chris DeMarco, who is the Liberty\u2019s next head coach, talks with the media during the Warriors\u2019 road win over the Nets at Barclays Center on Dec. 29, 2025, his last game with Golden State. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n