A powerful post player from the Czech Republic, Vodichkova joined the WNBA at age 27 in 2000 and had her highlight in 2004 as a starter for the champion Storm. Brunson, who played nine seasons for the Lynx, is second in all-time rebounding (3,356) to former Minnesota teammate Sylvia Fowles. 81: Alaina Coates, Chicago/Minnesota/Atlanta/Washington (2018-20; also wore No. Yes, No. As a national champion at Purdue and in her first seven WNBA seasons, she wore No. The forward spent six seasons wearing No. 33: Seimone Augustus, Minnesota/Los Angeles (2006-20), See also: Emma Meesseman, Washington (2013-present); Sophia Young-Malcolm, San Antonio (2006-15); Yolanda Griffith, Sacramento/Seattle/Indiana (1999-2009; also wore 13). At Atlanta, she appeared in the 2010 and 2011 WNBA Finals, with her best season coming in 2010, when she averaged 16.9 PPG. Thompson was the No. McCoughtry has been on the WNBA's all-defensive team seven times and will look to return in 2022 after missing this season with an ACL injury. 8, but for this list we'll discuss her at No. 1 draft pick and Rookie of the year who is a two-time WNBA champion. The former Georgia center spent just three seasons in the WNBA and never started for the now-defunct Rockers, averaging just 1.8 PPG. GUARD POS WT; Armoni Brooks #7: PG: 195 lbs: Josh Christopher #9: SG: 215 lbs: Eric Gordon #10: SG: 215 lbs: Jalen Green #0: SG: 186 lbs: Post navigation. by ; in small event spaces portland, oregon; on May 23, 2022; 0 . Jackson is being inducted into both the Naismith and Women's Basketball Halls of Fame this year and is not just the top Australian in WNBA history, but one of the best players, period. 31: Tina Charles, Connecticut/New York/Washington (2010-present), See also: Stefanie Dolson, Washington/Chicago (2014-present); Erin Phillips, Connecticut/Indiana/Phoenix/Los Angeles/Dallas (2006-16; also wore No. Connecticut reached the WNBA Finals, falling in four games to the Las Vegas Aces. She averaged 17.3 points and 9.1 rebounds for her career and also won four gold medals with Team USA in the Olympics. And for the first time since 2015, white jerseys will be back in the WNBA. What happens if you sink the white in snooker? 1 pick in 2009 after leading Louisville to its first women's Final Four, and she immediately became the Dream's signature player and was Rookie of the Year. 10 for the first two of his three championships. 23). 3 pick in 2018 out of Tennessee, really showed her stuff in her All-Star season of 2019, and is looking to get to that level again. Henning, a former Stanford star guard, was 29 when the WNBA launched, and her stats were never big. We list our top player at each number, with subsequent players listed by when they entered the WNBA, starting with the most recent. 22. Thielen's cap hit is scheduled to be $19.9 million in 2023. 22); Nicole Powell, Charlotte/Sacramento/New York/Tulsa/Seattle (2004-14; also wore No. 8); Sheri Sam, Orlando/Miami/Minnesota/Seattle/Charlotte/Indiana/Detroit (1999-08; also wore No. 2. No. The 2014 MVP, Moore averaged 18.4 points, 5.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.7 steals in her career. LSU grad Ferdinand-Harris was a three-time All-Star, a distinction that Virginia's Palmer earned once. Bird was also listed in the WNBA Top 20@20 , a list of the league's best 20 players ever in celebration of the WNBA's twentieth anniversary. Sanford was another undrafted player, finishing her Kansas career in 1999 with no intent to play professionally. He is followed by Anthony Davis in second place, while Paolo Banchero is third. Phillips played in two WNBA Finals with New York; she and Williams were both four-time All-Stars. 5 at 6,811) and assists (No. 1 draft pick in 2013 out of Baylor, where she won the 2012 national championship, and she played in her second Olympics for Team USA this summer. 54: Plenette Pierson, Phoenix/Detroit/Tulsa/New York/Dallas/Minnesota (2003-17; also wore Nos. She went to Chicago as part of the February 2017 trade that sent Elena Delle Donne to the Mystics. No player was more important to the launch of the WNBA than Cooper, who won the league's first two MVP awards as the Comets took the first four titles. 1, but Charlotte opted for Kelly Miller at No. 20); Allison Feaster, Los Angeles/Charlotte/Indiana (1998-2008; also wore No. 23 with her three NCAA titles at Tennessee to Moore's two at UConn; both scored over 3,000 points collegiately. 7), See also: Briann January, Indiana/Phoenix/Connecticut (2009-present; also wore No. Tennessee grad McCray started her pro career in the ABL, then was one of the bright spots in the early years for the WNBA's Mystics, making three All-Star appearances for Washington. An eight-time All-Star, she has been named to the All-Defensive team four times. De Souza wore No. The 2004 draft was strong, with nine picks playing at least 10 WNBA seasons, including Diana Taurasi, who is now in her 17th season. All are listed instead under the numbers they wore for most of their careers: 44, 14 and 23, respectively. But her unusual 47 -- she wore No. 12, 21). A Naismith Hall of Famer and nine-time All-Star, the power forward was the prototype "stretch 4," able to hit from anywhere on the floor, including behind the arc. Granted, NBA players earn considerably more than WNBA playersper Basketball-Reference, the average NBA player salary is $7.7 million and the median player salary $3.5 million. She seemed to find her place in the league with Indiana in 2016. The former North Carolina forward also had a strong playoff run when the Fever made the 2015 WNBA Finals. De Souza was just 20 and played sparingly in Los Angeles her first season. 51: Jessica Breland, New York/Connecticut/Indiana/Chicago/Atlanta (2011-present), See also: Sydney Colson, New York/San Antonio/Minnesota/Las Vegas/Chicago (2011-20; also wore No. Laney made this list on the strength of last season, when she was the league's Most Improved Player, and this one, when she was a first-time All-Star. Sales was an All-Star for seven of her nine seasons. 9 en route to three First Team All-Defense selections as a backbone of the Grit 'n . As a national champion at Purdue and in her first seven WNBA seasons, she wore No. Here are the greatest players ever to wear each number, from 00 to 99 . 2); Sancho Lyttle, Houston/Atlanta/Phoenix (2005-19; also wore Nos. Popular. She persevered through 10 knee operations, including five ACL surgeries. Teasley was drafted No. Harris is in just her second WNBA season, so her best is yet to come. A six-time All-Star, she shot a career-best 66.5% from the field in 2016, and her career shooting percentage of 55.3 is fifth-best all-time. Barnes was a WNBA role player for seven seasons. Whitmore wore this number for the bulk of her career, and it's the one she is best remembered for. Lamar Odom. She also wore that number part of . 32. She made the most of her three seasons with a Liberty team that captured fans' hearts with its gritty play and outgoing personalities. She ranks fourth in the league in career points (6,822) and is the all-time leader in 2-point field goals made (2,779). 16. 6); Elaine Powell, Orlando/Detroit/Chicago (1999-2008; also wore No. 54 anymore then; Ferris wore the number throughout her career, including in the 2003 season when she won a championship with the Shock. A four-time All-Star, Ford was one of the Shock veterans who didn't move to Tulsa when the franchise left Detroit after the 2009 season, which was her last in the WNBA. 8 pick from South Florida, made her first All-Star appearance last month, and is averaging a career-high 16.3 points for the Dream. Sunday wasn't the first time that the WNBA has tried to keep Griner at the . 11); Epiphanny Prince, Chicago/New York/Las Vegas/Seattle (2010-present; also wore No. North Carolina native Stinson was allocated to Charlotte, entering the league at age 29 when it launched, and spent eight of her nine WNBA seasons there. See also: Natasha Cloud, Washington (2015-present; also wore No. Latta, who was from the other Tobacco Road college power, North Carolina, had her best WNBA seasons in 2013 and '14, when she was an All-Star with the Mystics. But she's in her 13th season and has twice won the Most Improved Player Award (2010, '19). 5 pick out of Ohio State in 2011, was an All-Star as a Sparks starter in 2015. The Minnesota Lynx star left the WNBA in 2019 to help her now-husband Jonathan Irons win his release from prison by getting his 50-year sentence overturned in 2020. A six-time All-Star, she played to age 41 and was a starter for the WNBA runner-up Lynx her final season in 2012. She was traded to Sacramento and played two seasons there, but injuries ended her career prematurely. All of the jerseys have a 1/144 notation to represent the number of players in the WNBA. 7); DeMya Walker, Portland/Sacramento/Connecticut/Washington/New York (2000-12; also wore No. 00 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 37 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 47 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 57 | 81 | 88 |91 | 92 |99, 00: Ruth Riley, Miami/Detroit/San Antonio/Chicago/Atlanta (2001-13; also wore No. Full Site Menu. Brittney Griner was not among them, but her name was everywhere. She was in Houston for 10 seasons, then spent one in Seattle. She is now an assistant coach with the Lynx. The former Arizona State star had a strong showing in the inaugural 1997 playoffs (averaging 13.5 points and 13.5 rebounds), when New York lost the championship game at Houston. Breland's story is one of persistence. 11, 23). 0 in her eight years with the Sparks. She played for six teams, averaging 9.8 points and 4.0 assists. Carson, a Rutgers grad and New Jersey native, spent her first eight seasons in New York and was an All-Star in 2011. But in a short time, she left a lasting impact as a starting guard on two Comets championship teams. Even so, just to make a roster in the highly competitive WNBA puts a player among the most elite. Ndour-Fall was born in Senegal but moved to the Canary Islands as a teenager and has played for the Spanish national team in the past two Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2016. Thielen and his family seem . Taylor, a crafty forward, was a key part of three Mercury championship teams and was a three-time All-Star. Jump to: Christon and Bentley never won titles, but both had All-Star seasons, and Bentley helped the Dream reach the 2013 WNBA Finals as a rookie. Duke grad Williams was the league's most improved player in 2016 and was named to the all-defensive team last year. No. A Naismith Hall of Famer and five-time All-Star, Staley focused more on playmaking in her pro and international careers (she was a three-time Olympian). Taurasi has averaged 19.5 points, 4.3 assists and 3.9 rebounds in her 17-season career, and is a 10-time All-Star who played in her fifth Olympics. Her one season wearing No. Now with Washington at age 32, she is having one of the best seasons in league history, averaging 26.3 points and 10.0 rebounds. The same players who were the tops at No. See also: Jordan Hooper, Tulsa/Dallas/Connecticut/Atlanta/Chicago (2014-17, also wore Nos. 41). See also: Natasha Howard, Indiana/Minnesota/Seattle/New York (2014-present, also wore Nos. 1 draft pick in 2019 and reached the WNBA Finals with the Aces in 2020. As a late replacement for the U.S. 3x3 Olympics team, she won a gold medal in late July. See also: Allisha Gray, Dallas (2017-present); Tiffany Hayes, Atlanta (2012-present); Kia Vaughn, New York/Washington/Phoenix (2000-present, also wore Nos. 44 and 4); Marlies Askamp, Phoenix/Miami/Los Angeles (1997-2002; also wore No. Beard's WNBA career was almost equally divided between two jersey numbers, which is why the guard/forward is on this list twice. From 2017-19, she played for Washington, winning the 2019 WNBA championship. A seven-time All-Star, Smith scored 6,452 points, which ranks seventh all-time in WNBA history. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. 0, 4, 14). Kevin Johnson. 2). 55 is the highest allowed jersey number in college. Brent Barry, one of Hall of Famer Rick Barry's three sons to play in the NBA, wore No. Site Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 5:27AM Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? McCoughtry was the No. 5); Sandy Brondello, Detroit/Miami/Seattle (1998-2003); Eva Nemcova, Cleveland (1997-01). Mercury coach Sandy Brondello and college coaches Adia Barnes (Arizona) and Tricia Bader Binford (Montana State) are the others. UConn star Lobo was one of the original trio to sign with the WNBA, along with Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes. With the WNBA's new playoff format in effect, the Storm were the number 7 seed in the league and faced the Atlanta Dream in the first round, losing the single elimination game 94-85. 28). Milton-Jones, known for her tough and aggressive defense, is second all-time in regular-season games (499) to Sue Bird. A national champion at Old Dominion in 1985, she was a WNBA All-Star 17 years later, and averaged double figures for six of her seven WNBA seasons. Number 7 is the international country calling code for Russia. Her best overall season statistically was the next year, when she was an All-Star, but that 2002 title was her peak achievement in the league. 3. Melvin played briefly in the ABL coming out of leading NC State to the 1998 Final Four, then spent 12 seasons in the WNBA with one All-Star appearance. Hammon is the patron saint of the undrafted, although it comes with the caveat that the 1999 draft was when the influx of veterans from the folded ABL entered the WNBA. 32 throughout his 14-year NBA career, much of it with a face mask and a headband. A table featuring biographical information for each player in the league based on selected filters. 7, 41). She's now an assistant coach for the Sparks, for whom she played in her last season, 2020. Johnson said she started with No. She was Rookie of the Year in 2005, when she was the No. Jackson was a three-time MVP and seven-time All-Star who averaged 18.9 points and 7.7 rebounds for her career. She was a second-round pick, No. Less than six weeks after her release from a Russian prison, Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner surprised a group of people at an MLK march in Phoenix where she posed with eager fans. But there aren't a lot of 41s, so we slotted the Brazilian center here because no one will dislodge Cynthia Cooper atop the list at 14. 5: Dawn Staley, Charlotte/Houston (1999-2006; also wore No. But her longevity -- she's in her 12th season -- works in her favor, so we put her at 15, the number she wore at Rutgers and came into the WNBA wearing. She is in the WNBA's top 10 all-time in points (No. 55 with Louisiana Tech. She was also rookie of the year in 2002 after being drafted No. The 2002 No. Players wore the 6-foot-9 WNBA superstar's name and number on their jerseys throughout the second half of this year's All-Star contest. As the league prepares to resume the 2021 season, first with the Commissioner's Cup championship game on Thursday and then all 12 teams in action on Sunday -- including the league-leading Seattle Storm at the Chicago Sky (4 p.m. 20: Kristi Toliver, Chicago/Los Angeles/Washington (2009-present; also wore No. A five-time All-Star, Brunson is now an assistant with the Lynx, who will retire her jersey next season. Byears, out of DePaul, won two WNBA championships with the Sparks. Posted at 11:12h in isaac hayes wife by darcy et elizabeth fanfiction. 6 pick in 2013, won a title with Mystics as a key reserve in 2019. 5 for most of her pro career, which began in the ABL. In the "see also" category for each jersey number, active players are indicated in bold. DeShields, the No. After playing in the ABL, she came to the WNBA at age 29 in 1999, and was named league MVP and Defensive Player of the Year that season. The Los Angeles native spent seven seasons in Indiana, reaching the 2009 WNBA Finals as a starter with the Fever. Last month, she made her seventh All-Star Game appearance and just returned from her fourth Olympics for Team USA. 41, then switched to 81. 4 pick in the 2005 draft. The Arthur Ashe Courage Award winner at the 2021 ESPYs, Moore was sensational in her eight seasons with the Lynx, reaching the WNBA Finals six of those years and winning four championships. Notre Dame grad Diggins-Smith is a five-time All-Star who just got done competing in her first Olympics for Team USA. 31 for six seasons with the . Four years later, the four-time WNBA champion has officially closed the door on her playing career. Then she won WNBA titles with Phoenix in 2009 and Seattle in 2010, before making one more Finals appearance with Atlanta in her last season, 2013. The guard/forward left the Dream after 10 seasons to sign as a free agent in Las Vegas last year, helping the Aces make the 2020 WNBA Finals. Basketball-Reference.com Blog and Articles; We're Social.for Statheads. See also: Courtney Williams, Phoenix/Connecticut/Atlanta (2016-present; also wore No. She has also made the dunk one of her signatures, doing it 14 times in the regular season and once in the playoffs. These will be the last group of NBA players to wear the number 6 jersey. China's Zheng, 30 when the league launched, played just two seasons but was memorable for her 6-8 stature and constant smile. Wednesday, January 18, 2023 3 min read Glenn Cook. But the Sky then were an inexperienced franchise (launching in 2006) that undervalued Toliver's talent and overreacted to her public bluntness when she's unhappy or questions something. See also: Cintia Dos Santos, Orlando (2000-02); Haixia Zheng, Los Angeles (1997-98). 25); Katie Douglas, Orlando/Connecticut/Indiana (2001-14; also wore No. She was able to play overseas several years and is now an assistant coach for the Liberty. Baranova, a forward from Russia, came into the league at its launch, and ended up averaging 10.1 points and 6.4 rebounds in her seven seasons. Then she went to the WNBA Finals four times: three with the Liberty and once with the Stars. Hooper's primary number was 35 in college at Nebraska and in the WNBA, but she switched to 53 her one season in Atlanta because Angel McCroughry was 35. Smith was head coach of the Liberty for two seasons and is now an assistant with the Lynx. Bullett, one of Maryland's all-time greats, entered the league at age 29; she averaged double figures in four of her six seasons. That was her top season, averaging 20.9 points and 7.3 rebounds at age 34. But thus far, she has played just eight games. Jordan took up the number 23 jersey from an early age dating back to his time at Laney High School. Grooms, who played collegiately at Georgia, started for three seasons in the WNBA, two of those with Sacramento. Smith averaged double-digit scoring in nine of those seasons, and between 9.2 and 9.9 PPG in three more. Milton-Jones played 11 of her 17 seasons with Los Angeles, although one of her two All-Star appearances was with the Mystics. See also: Alysha Clark, Seattle/Washington (2012-present); Swin Cash, Detroit/Seattle/Chicago/Atlanta/New York (2002-16; also wore Nos. She was the first of five Germans who have played in the WNBA. In her best -- 2012, when she was on the All-Rookie team -- she wore No. 24). Wright was never an All-Star, but her defense and willingness to do the dirty work was appreciated by teammates. is jessica burns, a true story . 52 at all of them. That number stuck for Johnson, who said she liked to bang around inside like a post player whenever she could. Parker is a two-time MVP: In 2008, when she was also Rookie of the Year, and 2013. Both were WNBA first-round draft picks 12 years apart and six-time All-Stars, but Holdsclaw didn't play in the WNBA Finals in her 12-season career. Dydek of Poland and Wauters of Belgium were both No. Odjick chose to wear the number 29 on his jersey, a move extremely significant to him and his family because that was his father, Joe's, identification number at residential school he was taken to . 6 overall in the 2008 draft out of nearby Maryland, where she won a national championship. Then she focused on playing in Europe and didn't return to the WNBA until 2007, when at 25 she was traded to Connecticut. This question, as well as many others on our website, is quite popular among our readers. 7, 14); Nikki Teasley, Los Angeles/Washington/Atlanta/Detroit (2002-09; also wore No. Johnson was with the Liberty in the league's inaugural season, playing in the 1997 WNBA title game. 23, which she wore when winning the 1994 NCAA title at North Carolina. 3 in 2001, when she couldn't play because she was a rehabbing a knee injury that cut short her senior season at Tennessee. She averaged 8.0 points and 4.2 assists in her career, with the highlight coming as a starter for the Mercury's 2009 championship team. Back in the league in 2013 with Indiana, she was waived near the end of the season. She was in the top six in the league in assists each of her eight seasons and averaged 5.1 per game for her WNBA career. Ndiaye-Diatta, from Senegal, was an NAIA player like McWilliams-Franklin and was taken in the 1999 draft's fourth round, which no longer exists. Although the jersey numbers generally favored by WNBA players are the same as they wore in college, it's inevitable that several have to change numbers when they turn pro, and/or when they switch teams. Italy's Bonfiglio played just one season with the Mercury. 14). 23 and 0). She hasn't returned to play on a WNBA court since, although there is still hope she could compete later this season. On our college list, Holdsclaw edged Moore for the top spot at No. 32, which included two trips to the WNBA Finals (2004, '05) with the Sun. 2 overall draft pick in 2007. 23 chronicled above. 18. She's now an Aces assistant coach. 16 for just four of her 11 seasons. But she played 10 seasons and won a WNBA title with Seattle in 2018. The forward Santos is one of several Brazilian players who've spent time in the WNBA, but one of the few from anywhere to don No. It figures that someone with the style and flair of McWilliams-Franklin couldn't be held to just one jersey number; she had five while playing for seven different WNBA teams. 3, 33); Kayla Thornton, Washington/Dallas (2015-present; also wore No. Montgomery won championships with the Lynx in 2015 and '17. 99: Hamchetou Maiga-Ba, Sacramento/Houston/Minnesota (2002-2010; also wore No. Milton-Jones, the 1997 Wade Trophy winner out of Florida, first played in the ABL. The WNBA star, 32, who was released from a Russian penal colony on Dec. 8, took part in a march in Pheonix, Arizona alongside her wife, Cherelle Griner. List of the Best 6'10" Players on NBA 2K23. The former Tulane center played four WNBA seasons and wore three different numbers. An underdog as a fourth-round pick out of Michigan State in 2000, the 6-4 Rasmussen was able to stay in the league for nine seasons. Harvard's Feaster was the rare Ivy League grad to be picked in the WNBA's first round, and she played 10 seasons. Holdsclaw has talked openly about her career being impacted by mental health issues, a cause for which she is a spokesperson. 12); Murriel Page, Washington/Los Angeles (1998-2008; also wore No. However, she left that number early in her WNBA career. They play for the Seattle Storm. Quinn, the No. Pitt's Zellous played in two WNBA Finals with Indiana, winning the title in 2012. She and Lauren Jackson are tied at 10th in career scoring at 6,005 points. Under her maiden name, Lawrence, she earned most outstanding player honors in Louisiana Tech in the first NCAA tournament in 1982. Delle Donne had an unforgettable 2019, becoming the first 50/40/90 player in WNBA history, winning her second MVP and leading the Mystics to their first championship despite severe back issues. We went with 44, which she wore for her first WNBA championship season, with Detroit in 2008. In her ninth WNBA season as a second-round pick out of Miami, she is now a starter for Las Vegas. She was still part of the Comets' first title team in 1997, and the next three championships that followed. She added 57 more treys in the playoffs. 31, 33). Coming off two consecutive Final Four appearances, Latta went late in the 2007 first round at eleventh and Little was taken 17th in the second round. Quigley was a 2008 second-round draft pick out of DePaul, and it took awhile for her to stick in the league. Herrington played on Atlanta's three WNBA Finals teams. Ferris, a forward/center from Tulane, was undrafted but played 10 seasons in the league, including two with Pierson in Detroit. Weatherspoon and Toler were both 31 when the league began. But she beat the odds, playing 10 seasons and going to four WNBA Finals with Detroit and winning three of them. Lavender, the No. It's topped by Catchings, a Naismith Hall of Famer who was a 10-time All-Star, a season MVP (2011) and Finals MVP (2012) and won the Defensive Player of the Year honor five times, plus won four Olympic gold medals. Richard Hamilton, a three-time All-Star and 2004 NBA champion, wore No. 55 when she was in Charlotte, but also had that honor at No. 25 on the college list, and was a strong contender here, too. 25: Becky Hammon, New York/San Antonio (1999-2014), See also: Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut (2014-present); Glory Johnson, Tulsa/Dallas/Atlanta (2012-20; also wore No. She was a second-round pick by San Antonio in 2014 when she was just 19. We address Beard's career under No. 3 seed plays the No. Thompson averaged 15.1 points and 6.2 rebounds; she is second to Taurasi in scoring (7,488) and fifth in career 3-point field goals made (748). She is in the top 10 in career Player Efficiency Rating and has career averages of 22.0 points, 9.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.7 blocks. Armoni Brooks ODDS. Why Jonquel Jones brings top-5 fantasy upside to New York. But she has been an All-Star in four of those, including this year, and she led the league in scoring (23.0) in 2018. Another former Rutgers guard, Wheeler was not taken in the WNBA draft when she finished college in 2013, but made her WNBA debut 2015, playing briefly for Atlanta and New York. 7 pick out of Rutgers in 2016, went to Chicago in a trade for Elena Delle Donne, and found a home there, playing in her first All-Star Game this season. Williams, the 2016 No. Cornbread, wore No. Malgrozata ' Margo' Dydek ( 7-2 ) Photo: factofun.com. She has averaged double-digit scoring seven of her nine seasons with Chicago and was the league's Sixth Woman of the Year in 2014 and '15. 12). An outstanding scorer and three-time All-Star, the former NC State star led the Sting to the 2001 WNBA Finals. 49: Amaya Valdemoro, Houston (1998-2000; also wore No. Also, with some WNBA players, it's difficult to pick their "main" number, if they had success wearing more than one. After nine seasons in Seattle, she signed with Washington, but is out this season with a foot injury. Jackson, a college star at Florida who was 34 when the WNBA launched, won four titles with the Comets. With one of the smoothest jump shots in WNBA history, Augustus was an eight-time All-Star and averaged 15.4 points per game in her career. The former UConn star played in the WNBA only until age 31, but was the picture of consistency that whole time, averaging 14.2 points and 4.2 rebounds. 2: Temeka Johnson, Washington/Los Angeles/Phoenix/Tulsa/Seattle (2005-15), See also: Kahleah Copper, Washington/Chicago (2016-present); Riquna Williams, Tulsa/Los Angeles/Las Vegas (2012-present; also wore No. 2 pick overall in the 2017 draft (she was injured and didn't play that season), Coates played her first WNBA season in 2018 staying with No. 28); Deanna Nolan, Detroit (2001-09); Shannon Johnson, Orlando/Connecticut/San Antonio/Detroit/Houston/Seattle (1999-2009; also wore Nos. But her three years at 99 got her on this list. He wore No. She won a league championship in 2018 with Seattle as a player, another as an assistant coach (2020) and is now the Storm's head coach seeking this season's championship. Medal in late July strong playoff run when the WNBA runner-up Lynx her season... 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