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Message: [QUOTE="BRS24, post: 5256176, member: 197"] Gift article - [B][U][URL='https://wapo.st/4cLmijf']For Elena Delle Donne, basketball was easy, but fame was hard[/URL][/U][/B] [INDENT][I]That point arrived during her senior year of high school, when she was the top women’s basketball recruit in the country. She had committed to U-Conn., but before signing her letter of intent, she summoned the courage to tell her parents she was finished with basketball.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Delle Donne said she arrived in Storrs, Connecticut, in the spring of 2008 amid a fog of depression, having not spoken a word on the drive from Delaware. She said during the following day’s pickup game with some U-Conn. greats — Maya Moore and Tina Charles — that she felt as though she was running through mud.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Caroline Doty, watching from the sideline with an injury, said, “Elena went on the baseline and just plopped down on the ground, and she just looked depleted … like she was dead, and just not interested.”[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] (note that the author wrote "U-Conn" and not "UConn" and I've kept the actual text) [/QUOTE]