Evina and Athletes Unlimited
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For those not familiar with how this works, she will play three games with this team and earn points based on team accomplishments and individual stats. The top four players in points after three games will be a team captain and get to draft players for the teams in next week's games. Evina sits in 7th with 395 points, 37 short of a captain's spot.
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Glad this is on the WNBA app for streaming. Missed most of it because I was focused on ACC and SEC games last night. Good to hear Evina did well last night.
Evina did well again, but stayed in 6th place with 1242 points so she does not get to be a captain. NaLyssa Smith took her in the 2nd round of the Week 2 draft and interestingly managed to snag the two players who were highest in the standings with the 2nd and 7th picks.
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Thought it was cool of Williams to sit out a large portion of the team's final game to give Evina more time at the point position and to earn more points. I like how these teams collaborate in this format. It seems to provide more opportunities for some players to develop in comparison to the WNBA season.
Evina is on the losing side of a game for the first time. Even though it was only a six point game, they lost three of the quarters so the point totals were not great for her team and she drops to 11th in the standings.
I know that a thread was disappeared earlier in the day because the starter was not exactly culturally aware of American terminology and phrased a post extremely indelicately, but I did want to bring up the actual ESPN article being linked. I am not going to research every player from before Evina, but the article's claim probably should have been a bit more specific and said that Evina was the first Mexican-American player drafted by the WNBA. Raina Perez is also Mexican-American and they signed their WNBA contracts on the same day and Perez was actually the first of the two to actually appear in a game.
I know that a thread was disappeared earlier in the day because the starter was not exactly culturally aware of American terminology and phrased a post extremely indelicately, but I did want to bring up the actual ESPN article being linked. I am not going to research every player from before Evina, but the article's claim probably should have been a bit more specific and said that Evina was the first Mexican-American player drafted by the WNBA. Raina Perez is also Mexican-American and they signed their WNBA contracts on the same day and Perez was actually the first of the two to actually appear in a game.
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We UConn fans didn’t realize Rebecca Lobo was Latina until she graduated. It’s always great to learn more about our astounding Huskies
i guess off topic, but anyone else surprised no other UConn players in this league? i wonder what christyn williams is up to, thought this would be a league for her to get in to before the W season, then realized she was on no roster or TC invite...
