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Message: [QUOTE="Dugway, post: 5277150, member: 13446"] Just read an article about Juste Jocyte voluntarily walking away from the Valkyries team for the entire season. She apparently is going to play in Lithuania and not just for a short stint. Copy and paste exert of the article: [I][COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]EuroBasket could be an even bigger hit for the Valkyries this summer. Besides Jocyte, there are six other members of the team who are expected to represent their countries this summer: Carla Leite, Janelle Salaün, Iliana Rupert, Temi Fagbenle, Julie Vanloo, and Kyara Linskens (France for Leite, Rupert, and Salaün, Great Britain for Fagbenle and Belgium for Vanloo and Linskens).[/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)][I][/I][/COLOR] [I][COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]There are a lot of benefits to signing overseas talent to the WNBA. Players from countries outside of the United States bring their own (often lengthy) experience with high-level basketball and also a different approach and type of basketball IQ to the game. But they also typically come with obligations to their home countries that directly interfere with the WNBA's season. In the past, players have left their WNBA teams for about two weeks to prepare for EuroBasket at home, and then returned nearly immediately after their teams are no longer in the tournament. No matter what decision the rest of the team makes, the tournament certainly gives the Valkyries the opportunity to get creative with team strategy during this time.[/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]This may be of significance for Kaitlyn; an American, who is not going to go play for her Country this summer in Europe.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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