Teresa Weatherspoon Wants All the Smoke, Both Sides of the Ball

Teresa Weatherspoon Is Coaching Vinyl BC Like She’s Collecting Souls, Egos, & Wins

There are coaches who manage a team, and then there’s Teresa Weatherspoon,  a woman who wakes up every day like God personally handed her the whistle and said, “Go be great, baby.”

And in her personal life, and her basketball life, she’s been just that, great.

If coaching had a soundtrack, Spoon is running Vinyl BC like the DJ, the MC, and the bouncer. Weatherspoon got on the presser and didn’t t waste a single second reminding everyone that she has everything that she needs in order to win and win in a dominant fashion.

 

“We have everything we need.”

She said it with the confidence of someone who once picked a basketball up and instantly became a Hall of Famer, because….guess what? She literally did.

Then she started listing off her roster like a proud mom bragging at graduation:

Brittney Griner — dominant.

Dearica Hamby — can literally do everything.

Rhyne Howard — space the floor, handle, shoot.

Courtney Williams — dog in the fight, converted to point guard like it’s nothing.

Erica Wheeler — same vibe, same fire.

Rae Burrell — energy, deep threes, rim attacks, defense.

And in perfect Tersa Weatherspoon fashion, she summed it up beautifully, and in the most basketball terms that anyone can understand.

“Our entire team plays both sides of the ball. That’s value.”

Translation: Vinyl BC is out her trying to break your hearts. 

They’re here to lock you up, drill threes in your face and then run you off the court.

But the real beauty is in how Spoon leads: with soul, with heart, with pressure, with love, and with a level of enthusiasm normally reserved for baptist preachers on Sunday morning sweating with a three piece suit on anin a room with little to no AC, point guards, and people who just hit a five leg parlay.

She said:

 

“I bring the energy every single day. If I’m not bringing it, I can’t ask for it.”

Spoon is the type of coach who could motivate a plant to get up and start growing, a type of coach who could motivate a bag of Doritos to start to run wind sprints.

And the players feel it, and better yet, they respond to it.

They love playing for her, which she admits makes her emotional:

 

“Knowing players enjoy playing for me — you can’t describe that.”

Spoon sees more in players than they see in themselves.

She sees greatness in the places where other coaches see “potential.”

That’s why she leans into ego, not to suppress it but to weaponize it:

“Bring me your ego. I want it. We take those egos and put them together to win games. It’s not me — it’s we.”

Bars.

Absolute f**king bars.

But Spoon isn’t just coaching Vinyl… she’s contributing to a historic moment.

Five Black women are head coaches in Unrivaled — more than the WNBA, which currently has none.

She noticed it immediately.

“We’re five Black women qualified to do the job we love. We know we belong.”

That line should be printed on a banner and hung above every women’s sports arena in America.

Representation isn’t symbolic here.

It’s operational. Intentional. A choice.

Spoon sees herself as a leader in that space, and rightfully so, and as support for her peers:

“I love Noelle. I want to be someone she can lean on. She’s outstanding.”

Imagine being so iconic that Noelle Quinn, who has a basketball brain made in a lab, gets hype when you talk about her.

That’s Spoon and she knows 3-on-3 demands urgency — a sprint, not a marathon:

“You can’t start slow. The beginning matters. Being a cohesive unit is everything.”

Every possession is personal.

Every moment is magnified.

Every mistake is a fast break the other way.

Which is EXACTLY why Spoon loves it.

She said it herself:

“The more games you have, the more fun you have… between those four lines, that’s where the magic happens.”

Magic.

A very perfect word in the sense because Spoon coaches like someone who believes basketball is spiritual. Like the game is alive. Like the court is holy ground.

She studies the WNBA.

She studies schemes.

She studies players.

She studies growth.

And yes…she wants the big job again.

“Absolutely — I would love a WNBA head coaching opportunity.”

Without anytype of hestiation, Spoon said those words because she’s built for that moment.

And everyone who’s ever watched her coach knows it.

Until then?

She’s about to run Vinyl BC like a masterclass in intensity, energy, pace, and purpose.

And the league better pray they’re ready.