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Promise Amukamara is something of a throwback to the days when women's basketball players went overseas after college and only surfaced in the U.S. consciousness during an Olympic year.
Amukamara finished strong as a senior at Arizona State, making All Pac-12, and snuck into the 2015 WNBA draft as the final pick by the Phoenix Mercury. Her game wasn't complete enough then for the WNBA so she began playing overseas, first in Spain then Germany, Romania and most recently France.
Those jobs paid the bills, allowing Amukamara to also play for the Nigerian national team, which in February qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.