3 months agoThe lesson I’ve been learning this last year is that everything comes to an end. The time has come for my basketball career to end. I am deeply at peace with this choice as my mind, body, and spirit know unequivocally that it’s time to move on. The saying is that athletes have 2 deaths. Our careers and our true last breaths. I can tell you, I have been deeply in mourning over this loss. I’ve loved this game with every ounce of my being.
Thank you to my wife. Without you, I wouldn’t have made it this long 💘
Thank you to alllll of the dope teammates turned friends I’ve had over the years. The sisterhood is what I’ve loved about playing and will miss. The silliest things in the mundane moments. The way y’all helped me fill in my mustache, made jokes about my gender, the ways I joked about my gender. The way gender is so damn fluid in our league. The way we fight to make the world better and it always started with us. The 144.
To my WNBPA & EC hittas. The work we did bonded by a damn pandemic after a groundbreaking CBA. Forged by fire. I now know the true meaning of standing on shoulders.
To all the trainers who took care of me through the years, thank you. Y’all are the unsung heroes of this profession!
Shoutout to the Indiana Fever for drafting me, a 21 year old kid with a blonde mohawk. You gave me my first shot and I learned so much. To every team in between, ATL, CT, NY, MINNY, thank you. But lastly to the Sparks for being a sweet home to end my career, what an honor.
To all the coaches who poured in to me, believed in me, and helped me grow.
And to the dopest sports league fans around! Thank you.
While the grief is heavy the joy remains. I am so looking forward to being celebrated and loved on. I know I impacted a ton of people (or so I’ve heard, ha) if you will, please share a memory, an interaction we had, or something you loved about the way I played. I respectfully ask you not to say “you’re going to be great in whatever you choose next.” I want to stay in the sweetness of THIS moment. Where my heart is broken and there’s tears rolling down my eyes AND I can also smile, look up and say damn I really did all of that? 🤯