The Milwaukee Bucks are on their second phase of batch interviews for their vacant head coaching position which means general manager Jon Horst and the Wisconsin ball club is nearing a decision.

Joe Prunty previously worked as the Bucks' interim assistant, replacing the deposed Jason Kidd, and is expected to resume his role as an assistant once a proper head coach is selected. Some of the candidates that they have already interviewed were Steve Clifford, Ettore Messina, Mike Budenholzer, and Monty Williams.

However, two more candidates have emerged making the pool even wider — former Cleveland Cavaliers' head coach David Blatt and San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon.

The Israeli-American Blatt is most famously known for being tabbed as the Cleveland Cavaliers coach during the 2014 offseason, fresh off a successful tenure in the Euroleagues, guiding Maccabi Tel Aviv to a championship and subsequently winning Coach of the Year.

David Blatt immediately led the team to the NBA Finals that year, but ultimately lost in six games to the Golden State Warriors. He was then fired in early 2016 despite the Cavaliers' holding the best record in the Eastern Conference, and promptly returned to Europe.

Becky Hammon, on the other hand, is probably familiar to basketball fans as “Big Shot Becky” — the clutch point guard of WNBA teams' like th eNew York Liberty and later the San Antonio Silver Stars, and perhaps more controversially, as a member of the Russian women's basketball team during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Since retiring in 2014, Hammon joined the Spurs' coaching staff, becoming the first female coach in the league.