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Alexa PhilippouJul 28, 2025, 05:55 PM ET
- Covers women's assemblage hoops and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford postgraduate and Baltimore autochthonal with further acquisition astatine the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Cameron Brink, the No. 2 wide prime successful the 2024 WNBA draft, is acceptable to marque her play debut for the Los Angeles Sparks Tuesday against the Las Vegas Aces, 13 months aft tearing her near ACL.
Brink and Sparks manager Lynne Roberts told reporters the quality Monday astatine practice, arsenic the Sparks caput into Tuesday's contention connected a league-best five-game win-streak.
The 2021 nationalist champion astatine Stanford told media this past play successful New York that she had been cleared to instrumentality and was moving to get game-ready.
Brink, a 6-foot-4 forward, was averaging 7.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per crippled earlier going down with the wounded connected June 18, 2024, 15 games into her rookie campaign. She revealed earlier this twelvemonth connected Celebrity Wheel of Fortune that she besides tore her meniscus connected the play.
In summation to being sidelined for the remainder of that WNBA season, she had to miss the 2024 Paris Olympics aft having been named to the USA 3x3 hoops team.
The Sparks stumbled to a 8-32 decorativeness past play and are 10th successful the standings this season, but aft their existent triumph streak are 1 crippled backmost from a playoff spot.
