(June 6) - With San Antonio last year, Becky Hammon was runnerup for the WNBA's Most Valuable Player award, but still couldn't get her name on the list of the first 23 players invited to contend for spots on the U.S. women's basketball team. So Hammon will play for Russia at this summer's Beijing Olympics.
"It's not about getting back at the U.S. It's never been about that," Hammon told ESPN. "You go where you're wanted."
Hammon is not of Russian descent, but was fast-tracked for Russian citizenship in February by the highest levels of Russian government. She has signed a four-year contract for more than $2 million to play for CSKA, a Russian professional club.
How is it that she didn't get even a training camp invite?!?
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You know, I don't think it's such a big deal. JR Holden has already been playing for Russia. Arriel McDonald played for Slovenia for years. Plenty of guys have done this before, so it ought not be a shock that if someone doesn't get a chance on their team of choice, but gets an invitation elsewhere, he or she takes it.
You know, I don't think it's such a big deal. JR Holden has already been playing for Russia. Arriel McDonald played for Slovenia for years. Plenty of guys have done this before, so it ought not be a shock that if someone doesn't get a chance on their team of choice, but gets an invitation elsewhere, he or she takes it.
Its a big deal because this is one of the BEST players in the WNBA. Holden simply doesnt compare
Its a big deal because this is one of the BEST players in the WNBA. Holden simply doesnt compare
Not getting a timely invitation is crazy, but such things happen, I guess. I'd love to see Iverson or Paul Pierce do that, actually. (Hakeem Olajuwon and Tim Duncan would both qualify as people who have done the same thing, by the way, if you're looking for high-profile players.)
I just have a feeling the WNBA is probably embarassed by this announcement.
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I just have a feeling the WNBA is probably embarassed by this announcement.
If anything, USA Basketball should be embarrassed. The WNBA has nothing to do with it, but USA Basketball is the organization that failed to invite her early enough for her to count on it and avoid making other plans. As for the WNBA, she was and remains a great player for them.
If anything, USA Basketball should be embarrassed. The WNBA has nothing to do with it, but USA Basketball is the organization that failed to invite her early enough for her to count on it and avoid making other plans. As for the WNBA, she was and remains a great player for them.
That's obvious and I know she has been a great player for them, I'm a Liberty fan and I know what she has brought to the table when she played for us. I'm talking about in terms of the scrunity, the WNBA will probably be asked how they feel about that by the media outlets, more so that USA basketball. That's just the way it is.
__________________ "Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man." - Four Star General Ann E. Dunwoody
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
It isn't as if the WNBA gets all that much coverage anyway. I wonder, at least this Olympic summer, if that's true that they'd be asked more than USA Basketball. I wouldn't be so sure. But either way, it was certainly an odd development.
They just discussed this on Around the Horn, and at least two of the three got it right.
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You know, you shouldn't jump around when this nice woman is holding a sharp pair of scissors. If you move she could slip and slice your jugular man, on accident. There is no way to stitch the jugular. All of your blood will be on the floor in four minutes. I have seen this. I have done this. You don't want this.
FUN FACTS: Loves scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, hunting and sharks… caught her first shark when she was 12 with her hands, it was a baby one, and roaming around in the shallows in a Maine harbor, so she grabbed it and made a live well for it to swim in..but then quickly scrambled out of the water realizing.."uh -oh where's its mom?"
How awesome is that?
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You know, you shouldn't jump around when this nice woman is holding a sharp pair of scissors. If you move she could slip and slice your jugular man, on accident. There is no way to stitch the jugular. All of your blood will be on the floor in four minutes. I have seen this. I have done this. You don't want this.
Russia is apparently making this their little strategy. First JR Holden, then Becky Hammon and now attempts at newly naturalized Travis Hansen, formerly of BYU. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...er.adv28.1231/
You know, you shouldn't jump around when this nice woman is holding a sharp pair of scissors. If you move she could slip and slice your jugular man, on accident. There is no way to stitch the jugular. All of your blood will be on the floor in four minutes. I have seen this. I have done this. You don't want this.
Becky Hammon To Play For Russia
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