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Alphonso Ford, who died aged 32, one week after retiring from basketball due to leukemia; Lorenzen Wright, who was murdered at age 34 by his ex-wife; Kobe Bryant, who died aged 41 in a helicopter crash, alongside his daughter Gianna and seven other individuals.
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) All-Star Game is an annual exhibition basketball game played between the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference All-Stars. Eleven players, five starters and six reserves, from each conference are chosen. The starters are chosen through electronic ballots cast daily by fans on WNBA.com.
List of American football players who died during their careers; List of association footballers who died after on-field incidents; List of athletics competitors who died during their careers. List of marathon fatalities; List of Australian rules footballers who died during their careers; List of basketball players who died during their careers ...
Jackson was the number five pick in the WNBA draft in 2007.
The number-seven pick in the 1997 inaugural WNBA draft, she followed her career at the University of Southern California with eight WNBA All-Star selections and two WNBA championships over the course of 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks, before retiring in 2009. [4] In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the Top 15 players in WNBA ...
In 2014, Catchings missed the Fever's first 17 games of the season with a sore back and returned 6 games prior to the 2014 WNBA All-Star Game in which she was selected to play in. During the all-star game, Catchings scored a game winning basket for the Eastern Conference all-star team to put them up 125–124 with 6 seconds left in overtime. [9]
McCray would be a starting Guard for the Mystics in her first four seasons in the WNBA. She played in 125 games for the Mystics in that four seasons and started in 124 of them, with averages of 15.4 points, 2.4 assists, 1.2 steals in 31.1 minutes per game. She was named to three WNBA All-Star teams (in 1999, 2000, and 2001).
Fans grow to know and love reality TV stars as real people, not as characters — which makes the loss hit even harder. In recent years, stars from The Deadliest Catch, The Real World, Survivor ...