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Phoenix Mercury guard Kahleah Copper has been working toward this year’s WNBA All-Star Weekend for a long time.

2024 won’t be Copper’s first trip to the All-Star Game — in fact, she’s been an All-Star for four consecutive seasons. This weekend also won’t be Copper’s greatest individual achievement to date. Afterall, it’s tough to beat winning Finals MVP as part of the 2021 WNBA Champion Chicago Sky. And this year isn’t even Copper’s first time playing the All-Star Game in her home arena; that was in Chicago in 2022.

But this will be Copper’s first All-Star Weekend as an Olympian, a title she’s been striving for since the moment the Tokyo Games ended in August 2021. Back then, the 29-year-old had been one of Team USA’s final roster cuts prior to the Olympics. And from that day forward, she made it her mission to channel  her disappointment into becoming an indispensable part of the 2024 Paris Olympic squad

“I wouldn’t change my process for anything,” she told Just Women’s Sports earlier this week as she prepared to join the national team at training camp in Phoenix. “I’m super grateful for it, it has definitely prepared me. It’s a testament to my work ethic, and me just really being persistent about what it is that I want.”

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