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[QUOTE="#12in21, post: 5005514, member: 10763"]
Nika has been listed as OUT (pending Visa)  for today's game and will quite likely be the same for Monday's game. That would be 4 games thus far or a tenth the season! Her next opportunity would be Wednesday when the Storm face the Fever.  Fingers crossed. I would hope that beyond the assumed full efforts of the Storm organization that the league office is doing all they can to expedite the process.

I don't recall any drafted foreign citizen rookie having this extent of a problem getting her Visa in the past. With all the foreign talent at the college level the WNBA really needs to figure this one out and prevent it from happening again. I understand that Aaliyah's situation as a Canadian may have been an easier path to clearing her Visa  (as folks mentioned above) but what about Cardosa or other foreign citizen draftees this or past seasons?  What has made Nika's Visa a bigger problem? I really wish the league would put out a statement as to what the unique issue is and how they are working alongside the Storm and Nika (and her agent) to resolve it.
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