Editing Nancy Lieberman (section)

==Early life==
Lieberman was born in [[Brooklyn]], New York, to Jerome and Renee Lieberman. She is Jewish (and described herself as "just a poor, skinny, redheaded Jewish girl from Queens").<ref name="Mayer2004" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/nancy-lieberman-kings-women-in-coaching|first=Nancy|last=Lieberman|title=One of the Guys|work=The Players' Tribune|date=October 29, 2015|access-date=April 27, 2018}}</ref> Her family lived in Brooklyn when she was born, but soon moved to [[Far Rockaway, Queens]], where she grew up with her older brother Clifford.<ref>Woolum, p. 175</ref> She lost great-grandparents in [[the Holocaust]], and her paternal grandparents, who survived, had concentration camp numbers on their wrists.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=http://jewishcoaches.com/index.php/2010/11/11/interview-with-nancy-lieberman/ |title=Interview with Nancy Lieberman<!-- Bot generated title --> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428021919/http://jewishcoaches.com/index.php/2010/11/11/interview-with-nancy-lieberman/ |first=Nancy |last=Lieberman |interviewer=Adam Rosenfield |date=November 11, 2010 |work=Jewish Coaches Association |archive-date=April 28, 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 27, 2018}}</ref>

Her mother brought up the children after a separation and divorce.<ref name="porter" /> While growing up, she was interested in a variety of sports, playing baseball, softball and football with boys, before settling on basketball as her primary sport.<ref name="porter" /> She played basketball primarily on pickup teams with boys, not playing on a girls' team until she was a high school sophomore.<ref name="porter" />

Lieberman's mother Renee was not supportive of her daughter's interest in basketball. Once, when Lieberman was practicing [[dribbling]] techniques indoors because it was cold outside, her mother demanded she stop dribbling because of all the noise. When she did not stop, her mother punctured the basketball with a screwdriver. Lieberman found another ball and continued, but her mother punctured that one as well. This continued until five balls were ruined. Lieberman then decided she had better go outside before she ran out of basketballs.<ref>Grundy, p. 171</ref>