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Coop scored 29 points. It didn't matter how much we schemed for her. She could create off the dribble, score inside over bigger players and was a willing passer. Her stats put her among the all-time best, but her impact on professional women's basketball went beyond numbers. She changed the way the women's game was played and what it meant to play her position. Coop, who was 34 when she joined the WNBA, came in with a refined game because she had been playing overseas for so many years.
When you combined her skills, her mental game, what she'd learned and how she was able to read situations coming off the pick-and-roll or in a half-court offense, she was unstoppable.
F Minnesota Lynx Career stats: As the No. By her eighth season, she had exceeded all of them. Moore would become a face of the WNBA, one of the most prolific all-around players in the league and the star of a Minnesota Lynx franchise that won four of its six WNBA Finals appearances in a seven-year span.
To see such greatness in a player like Moore, and to watch that greatness begin to peak, it remains difficult to accept the fact that we may never see her hit another clutch shot or make another run at a title. Had Moore, who left the game in to focus on criminal justice reform, added three more WNBA seasons in her prime and who knows how many accolades, she'd likely top this list.
For many, she already does. C Los Angeles Sparks Career stats: She wouldn't turn 22 until that July, but where was her basketball career headed? To the Hall of Fame. Assigned to her hometown team in Los Angeles, Leslie was a fearsome defender, a go-to scorer and as talented a center as women's hoops has seen.
When you're talking about the GOAT, there are some areas that can't be ignored: the defensive end of the floor, championships and a player's impact when it comes to on-court history. Swoopes checks all the boxes. Historically speaking, she became the first to record a triple-double, and was also the first to have won an NCAA championship, a WNBA title and an Olympic gold medal, and that trifecta in our sport is the mark of excellence.
Swoopes set the mark for everyone else, in every aspect of the game: from defense to offense, to marketing she was the first to have a signature shoe , to building the league as one of its foundational pieces.
She is synonymous with the league. Swoopes there it is. F Seattle Storm Career stats: During that stretch, she led the league in offensive win shares six times and was top 10 in defensive win shares five times.
Her win share total is second all time. Her career player efficiency rating is third all time, and she holds the record for the top two seasons ever. Complete dominance. G Seattle Storm present Career stats: And in that time, she has solidified herself as one of the greatest point guards to ever pick up a basketball. She has been the starting point guard for all four of Seattle's championships. She has played 18 seasons, and she's not washed! She's still contributing at a high level, and proving night in and night out why she deserves to be on this list.
She's an active legend with her own mythology please see "Masked Bird" , and that's pretty special. She can play any position on the floor, and defines beautiful basketball, with the ability to slash to the basket, dominate at the rim or step back and hit from distance. One of 10 active players on our list, Fowles also is the league's all-time leader in double-doubles and top five in win shares.
After establishing herself as a perennial frontcourt force with the Chicago Sky, she turned an already great Minnesota team into a juggernaut, becoming the top scorer and rebounder in the championship season.
A large part of Fowles' greatness stems from her longevity: She has demonstrated a level of consistent dominance throughout her career. I repeat, Year What Fowles has done and continues to do on the court as the greatest center of her generation is incredible. There's nobody in WNBA history quite like Delle Donne, who combines the size of a post player 6-foot-5 with as accurate shooting as we've ever seen.
She was rewarded with her second MVP as she led the Mystics to an elusive championship after a pair of finals losses in Washington and Chicago. Although Delle Donne, 32, has played just two games since then, she has already put together one of the W's best careers. F Seattle Storm present Career stats: Years down the road, Stewie is the one player on this list who could challenge Taurasi for No. He continues, "I took it personally—I am one of those college guys.
But I can't be mad, because she is right. These practice players also don't get paid, which makes them a rarity in professional sports—even career NFL scout players earn a paycheck.
Instead, their compensation is a free meal here and there, along with the odd piece of leftover gear. A practice player is a seasonal employee, mostly, faceless and essentially disposable. Which is not to say they're anything but valuable: what they contribute daily in practice helps determine how well a team does that year.
The goal is to push each player on the roster to her limit, yet it can be a fine line between that and overshadowing, overwhelming, or simply going too hard. But we want them to be physical and to annoy the players.
They've got next. You, in this scenario, are a guy who really likes playing basketball. There are practice players who refuse to be just blips. These guys return year after year, structuring their regular lives around the demands of a pro team that will never give them a paycheck.
For them, the five-month season is their time to shine. There is at least one returnee on the practice squads of each of the 12 WNBA teams. Duncan, for instance, has been stocking his Liberty practice troupe with the same four guys since he began. That, along with the ability to stay at home, will make the D-League a much more viable option for top college players that are getting offers overseas, especially with the NBA just a phone call away at all times.
The money could also be split up into other areas for the D-League, however it'd work best to improve the league's viability. Part of that money could go into subsidizing more teams, pushing the D-League closer to a full-fledged minor league, with each NBA team having their own counterpart to run personally as they see fit.
As for the D-League and how its continued improvement can benefit the NBA in the short and long term, I don't think I need to really go into that. I'm sure that's been sufficiently covered on your blog and elsewhere. From a business perspective, this really seems like common sense to me. It's quite clear where the money is better invested, for a multitude of different reasons. The NBA should already be in serious discussions about this possibility.
Obviously the NBA couldn't just cut the WNBA off tomorrow, but setting up a timetable and giving sufficient notice that in a few years, the funding would instead be going to the D-League is more than fair in my opinion. I really hope for the sake of the D-League, the NBA, and American basketball in general, that this happens sometime in the not-so-distant future.
I work for an NBA team. The talent level is low. Obviously there are sublevels to all of those categories, but those are the basic five.
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