It’s been more than 660 days since Elena Delle Donne has set foot on a basketball court to play in a game. That’s more than two years and two back surgeries later, but the Washington Mystics star is nearing a return.
She returned to practice last week and has participated in five-on-five drills this week, but the past two years haven’t been easy for the two-time WNBA MVP.
There were some days that Delle Donne was happy to be motivated to go out to dinner with her wife, not even thinking about basketball.
“I had to keep that in perspective, like, ‘oh, my goodness, I’ve got to have a better life than this and this pain,’” Delle Donne said in a press conference on Monday afternoon.