LAS VEGAS (AP) — WNBA Finals coaches Becky Hammon and Nate Tibbetts share a South Dakota heritage, with both growing up there.

“We’re a very small state, so one thing I think people sleep on is the basketball in South Dakota,” Hammon said. “Mike Miller is another South Dakota guy. Eric Piatkowski. ... Mark Ellis played Major League Baseball. We were in the same graduating class. That’s crazy to have two professional athletes in a school that size in a state that size. So that’s what we do. We do outdoors and sports."

Hammon played against a team coached by Tibbets' father, Fred, when she was in high school. Fred Tibbets was one of the most successful high school coaches in the state's history, winning 111 games in a row at one point.

Although they are the same age, the two didn't really

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