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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2142714, member: 199"] WNBA has a rookie salary so she would have gotten exactly the same money this year as she did last. On the injury front - who knows, it is very different going from college season immediately into training camp and WNBA season vs. having a summer of less stressful work maintaining conditioning and strengthening. (Kia's situation with the Canadian NT and college is not too dissimilar and it will continue this summer with Canada having to qualify for the WC in 2018 during this summer. Unlike the USA team, the Canadian team trains and plays games all summer. Her stress reaction while brought on by a specific event this year was likely not helped by playing competitively for the last 4 years with no real breaks except the 5 weeks or so to recover from her operation last spring.) This team would certainly have been different had Tuck returned for a fifth year and it might have had an effect of Napheesa's development or Gabby's but I don't think the court development would have been much different for them - they would still have played 20+ minutes per game and been major contributors. The biggest difference would have been on the development of leadership skills from Gabby and Kia as they would have leaned much more heavily on Morgan. The maturation process for all the team members would likely have been a little stunted by her presence. I though getting a head start on a masters would have been a good option for Morgan - the compensation after taxes and living expenses would work out at least equal, and as it turned out she did not get her big European payday that would have tipped the scale to going pro. And I also understood the appeal of going out with the class you came in with. She was already 'mature' for her age so sticking around for another year to be better prepared wasn't necessary either. But with her injury history having a masters on her resume later in life would certainly help and getting it partly completed during a fifth year for free seemed like a good option. On Edit - don't really think WNBA player marketing would be affected at all by another year even with 5 NCs. [/QUOTE]

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