Playing professional basketball overseas brought Shakena Richardson many new experiences, including the first major injury of her career.
Richardson, a former Seton Hall player who started for the 2015-16 women’s squad, had barely played a handful of games with Hoptrans-Sirenos Kaunas, a team in Lithuania’s LMKL league, before aggravating the injury to the point of a torn ligament in the late fall of 2016.
“It happened in the summer, but I was playing on it not realizing I was hurt,” Richardson said in a phone interview.