Last November, I wrote that one of the Washington Mystics’ weaknesses is Elena Delle Donne’s injury history. She has never played a complete 34-game regular season and suffered back spasms during the WNBA Finals last October.
Though Delle Donne doesn’t play overseas like most WNBA players, she is part of the USA Basketball women’s national team. That team is playing in friendlies against top-ranked women’s college basketball programs and will participate in the FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament next February, even if they already qualified by winning the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in 2018.