PLAYER-COACH
She doesn't get a bump of her $50,000 salary, but it is a title.
One of new Spark Coach Orlando Woolridege's first moves was to designate backup point guard Jamila Wideman his "player-coach".
"I want someone who can give me player input, what the players would like to do that we're not doing, what they think of what we're trying to do," he said. "And Jam's the one."
Wideman has a post-basketball legal career in mind. Her mother, Judy, is lawyer and Wideman plans to enter law school in the 1999 off-season.
"She has head coach written all over her," Woolridge said.
"She's so damn smart, I can't believe it. I really think she ought to think about coaching."