Nancy Lieberman still just wants to be one of the guys.

Lieberman, a National Basketball Hall of Famer, has racked up firsts like layups in a male-driven sport. First woman to coach a professional men’s team. First (and still only) 50-year-old to play in the WNBA. And soon, she hopes, first woman to coach in the NBA.

"My goal in the next couple years is to be coaching in the NBA," Lieberman said this week. "There’s never been a woman, and I one day hope to have that opportunity to do what I love and break that barrier."

Lieberman, now 55, is an assistant general manager with the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League. She’s in the islands for the second time in three years to run Adidas Hoops Clinics as part of the run-up to the EA Sports Maui Invitational next month. They’re capped off with a coaches clinic at Chaminade’s McCabe Gym today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participation is free.

Lieberman, known for her inspirational messages, said she’ll lay off speech-giving at the clinic and focus on, well, coaching the coaches.

"We don’t have any interest in talking over the heads of the coaches or the players," she said. "But we do deeply care about teaching them the finite aspects of the game. And that’s where our emphasis is, and has always been. We’re thrilled with the turnout (at the other clinics). … There’s a lot of Shane Victorinos out there, a lot of Marcus Mariotas out there. We just have to be able to support them."

She’s joined at the clinic by Maui Invitational chairman and former Wake Forest coach Dave Odom, as well as Chaminade men’s and women’s coaches Eric Bovaird and Bobby Keanini.

Children’s clinics were previously held on Oahu and Maui. Her foundation recently dedicated a new "Dream Court" outside of the Lahaina Civic Center.

She coached the Legends to the D-League playoffs in 2011, but decided to forsake that position for the assistant GM job for more flexibility to watch her son, T.J., play his senior year of high school.

"That took a lot of pressure off of me on that note, the checklist of life," Lieberman said. "You know, hire a woman, oh my gosh, they’re able to be successful. That was very meaningful to me and to our franchise and to our players."

People still seek out the opinions and muses of "Lady Magic." She accepted an analyst role with Fox Sports Oklahoma’s pre- and postgame studio shows for Oklahoma City Thunder games this season.

She’s also been invited to NBA coaching symposiums and camps in recent years that were formerly all-male. For her ultimate goal, being visible is a must.

"They have to know that I am one of them," she said. "In most cases people know who I am because of how long I’ve been around. They gotta know me not as a public speaker but as a coach. So being with Tim Grgurich and (Rick) Carlisle and Phil Jackson and Terry Stotts. All these other NBA guys, just another kind of seminal moment for me, on my path to hopefully getting in the league one day."

Registration for today’s clinic is available online at goswords.com.