History is top of mind in the WNBA of late.
Last week, Diana Taurasi passed 10,000 career points. This weekend, Becky Hammon will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Let’s extend this reflective mindset to this week’s editions of “WNBA Six Pack,” selecting a player from each franchise’s past whose addition would enhance this season’s squad.
To make this exercise more interesting, players already in the Hall of Fame are ineligible. (Although, if the Hall of Fame selection standards used for men’s basketball players equitably were applied to women’s basketball players, a number of these players would be enshrined in Springfield.) Players who retired less than five seasons ago also have been withheld from consideration.
So we’re going for some deeper cuts, celebrating the skills of players who, although not (yet) in the Hall of Fame, were important contributors to the history of the WNBA.
We’ll begin alphabetically by city/state, covering Atlanta, Chicago, Connecticut, Dallas, Indiana and Las Vegas today.
Atlanta Dream (15-13): Erika de Souza
