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‘She’ll probably be a world champion:’ Jason Terry talks Chennedy Carter and reminisces on days with Atlanta Hawks

It has all come full circle for Jason Terry.

21 years after the Atlanta Hawks selected the guard out of the University of Arizona with the 10th overall pick in the 1999 NBA Draft, the Atlanta Dream selected his goddaughter Chennedy Carter, a guard out of Texas A&M, with the No. 4 overall pick of the 2020 WNBA Draft.

Terry first met Carter on the AAU circuit when she was in sixth grade.

During every offseason in the latter half of his 19-season NBA career, Terry coached his daughter’s AAU program in Dallas. When his daughter’s team faced Carter for the first time, she immediately stood out.