UNCASVILLE — Given the serious injury to their most important player, they could miss the WNBA playoffs again this coming season. But say this for the Connecticut Sun. They could be the smartest 16-18 team in women's professional basketball history.
"I'm super happy to have another nerd in the building," Stanford graduate Chiney Ogwumike told ESPN after the Sun selected Elizabeth Williams of Duke with the fourth pick overall Thursday night at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Later Ogwumike, who had microfracture knee surgery in January and could miss the entire season, said, "We both are Nerd Nation.