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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2177349, member: 199"] I like Shoni and everyone I think is seeing this from the perspective of a WNBA GM who 'owns her rights'. She became one of the biggest native american heroes of the recent past, and perhaps that has just taken her in a different direction in her life - she and her sister devoted a lot of time to giving back to the NA community during summers and now during off seasons. Her chance of making it long term in the W were not great to begin with given her height and quickness - she was never going to be a good defender and she was always a streaky shooter and not terribly efficient. Given those factors, I think perhaps her fire for basketball has waned. There was a story a ways back about the cultural heritage of throwing feasts for honored visitors and how that summer/off season travel that she was doing made diet and nutrition something very difficult to maintain. I think people should celebrate the role model she provided through college and a few years of pro ball - she and to a lesser degree her sister turned res-ball into something akin to the playgrounds of inner cities, and maybe in a few years we will see the effects with more kids off reservations getting college scholarships or at least pursuing athletics as opposed to other forms of less healthy recreation - if so she will have had a bigger impact on society than she would have playing 10 years in the W. [/QUOTE]