[22], McCoughtry earned most valuable player honors at the Ekaterinburg International Invitational Tournament, as she helped the USA Basketball team win the competition. She was named Rookie of the Year after leading her draft class in points and steals. [28] She was selected and was part of the US team that won the gold medal. Former Louisville basketball star Angel McCoughtry unveils - Yahoo McCoughtry would have the best season of her career in the 2011 season, as she averaged a career-high 21.6 ppg, helping the Dream to a 2014 record and the number three seed in the Eastern Conference. Fantasy women's basketball: Whose numbers could fall in 2023? McCoughtry became a two-time Olympic basketball champion. The undisclosed amount the Lynx paid McCoughtry in the buyout will count against their salary cap, while any money she agrees to give up is removed from the cap. In the wake of police shootings that year, four members of the Minnesota Lynx Maya Moore, Seimone Augustus, Lindsay Whalen and Rebekkah Brunson wore black T-shirts with the words Change Starts With Us: Justice & Accountability printed on them to a pre-game news conference. The Dream lost to the Lynx two of those times, in 2011 and 13. McCoughtry suffered a torn ACL a year ago and was expected to be full-go to start training camp, but she's experienced some pain and had to sit out the Lynx's preseason finale. 1 draft pick Aliyah Boston projects in the WNBA, How regular-season Goliaths have fared in the postseason. Theyll feel it. Theres so many wrong things going on. I love bringing stories to life, McCoughtry explained, specifically citing her interest in music and film. Let's shun those people out. At the conclusion of the training camp, the team travelled to Ekaterinburg, Russia, where they competed in the 2009 UMMC Ekaterinburg International Invitational. In the semi-finals, the Aces would defeat the Connecticut Sun in a hard-fought five-game series, advancing to the WNBA Finals, making it McCoughtry's fourth finals appearance, but with a shorthanded roster, the Aces would lose to a fully loaded Seattle Storm team in a three-game sweep. Subverting expectations and social activism have always been at the core of the WNBA. I get to play with Sylvia [Fowles] for her last year and make history.