(Photo : ARIS MESSINIS/AFP through Getty Images) US basketball participant Sue Bird opens the session within the ladies’s Gold Medal basketball match between France and the USA throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the Bercy Arena in Paris on August 11, 2024.
Seattle is celebrating among the finest feminine basketball gamers to play for the town in the easiest way possible–naming a road after her.
On Monday, the town in Washington state held a ceremony exterior Climate Pledge Arena to honor Sue Bird’s lasting mark on Seattle basketball. At the occasion, Mayor Bruce Harrell introduced that the town is renaming a bit of a road within the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood to “Sue Bird Court,” ESPN reported.
Previously often known as 2nd Ave. North, Sue Bird Court would be the part of the road resulting in the sector’s southeast finish.
“We are cementing her legacy into the very fabric of Seattle and that’s why this is more than symbolism,” Harrell instructed the group, calling Bird the “epitome of excellence in women’s basketball.”
Among these in attendance had been Bird’s fiancé Megan Rapinoe and Seattle Storm house owners Dawn Trudeau, Ginny Gilder, and Lisa Brummel.
“There might be a young girl who sees a street sign, or a poster, you name it, a mural, and they might dream of that. That’s what makes it more special,” the four-time WNBA champion mentioned in a speech, in response to ESPN.
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Bird joins different Seattle sports activities icons to be honored with road names. These embody Seattle Mariners hitter Edgar Martinez and SuperSonics player-coach-executive Lenny Wilkens.
Sue Bird’s adorned WNBA profession
Bird has had a celebrated skilled profession that began when she was drafted first total in 2002. She performed 21 seasons within the WNBA and spent her total profession with the Storm, from 2002 till her retirement in 2022.
She received 4 WNBA championships (’04, ’10, ’18, ’20), was a 13-time WNBA All-Star, a five-time All-WNBA First Team choice, a three-time Second Team Selection and was additionally the league help chief in ’05, ’09 and ’16.
She additionally received 5 Olympic Gold medals with Team USA, from 2004 in Athens, Greece, to 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
Bird is the one WNBA participant to win titles in three decades–2004, 2018, and 2020.
She performed a complete of 580 video games and averaged 11.7 factors, 5.6 assists, and a pair of.2 rebounds on 42.9% capturing.
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