Being a WNBA rookie is never easy — and these days especially — but Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink said her teammates and even veterans from other teams are helping her embrace the right mentality.
“Diana Taurasi came to me at the free-throw line and she was like, ‘You know, you’re going to be dealing with this crap for 20 more years,'” Brink told CBS Sports. “And I was like, ‘Oh my god. Not with the way I’m playing now.'”
“Just give yourself grace,” Taurasi told Brink.
The former Stanford star was named the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year just a few months ago, and those skills are already translating into her professional career. Brink, the second overall selection from this year’s draft class, recorded a total of 19 blocks in May, the most ever by a player in their first month in the WNBA.
Brink’s 2.6 blocks per game places her third league-wide, just behind Seattle Storm center Ezi Magbegor and Las Vegas Aces forward A’ja Wilson. In her first nine games, Brink has also been averaging 8.0 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.0 steals.
Wilson, last season’s WNBA Finals MVP, is one of the players Brink admires, and they got to play each other on May 18, when the Aces…
