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Jun 14 2008

Sensationalism in Women’s Basketball

Published by jilljaracz under 2008 Beijing Edit This

Big news today for USA Basketball.  One of the WNBA stars has decided to play for Team Russian in the Olympics.

The regular news outlets have asked if Becky Hammon is a traitor, but that’s an odd take, considering that if another country grants you citizenship.  Greece needed to field a softball team in 2004, and a lot of Americans ended up on their team.  That didn’t seem to be so bad.

But Russia?  The Newsday link above puts it into a nice perspective:  Hammon doesn’t really remember the Cold War.  She was just a kid then.  If  Team USA didn’t ask her to compete on their team, and Russia is paying her to play basketball in their league next year and has granted her citizenship, then what’s the fuss?

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