Swapping pick and rolls for payrolls has reshaped Australian star Steph Talbot’s international basketball future.
Talbot, who earned All-Star Five selection at last year’s FIBA World Cup in Sydney, has gained clarity from the ruptured ACL which has sidelined her for much of 2023.
Prior to the February injury sustained while captaining Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL, the 29-year-old thought she’d go around for a few more years before moving on to the next phase of her life.
“If you asked me 12 months ago, I probably would have said, ‘I’ll play my two-year deal with LA then that will be it.’ I might still play in Australia but I think I’m done travelling the world and what not,” Talbot told ESPN this week.
“But now I’m not ready to finish yet, that’s the one thing that’s changed. I definitely have goals for sure, I just feel like I’m not ready to go back to normal life yet.”
Normal life has looked different for Talbot following her March 1 surgery.
For the past six years she’s spent her Australian winters in the WNBA, with Phoenix, Minnesota and Seattle, and was about to embark on a new contract in Los Angeles with the…
