Cameron Brink, the No. 2 total choose within the 2024 WNBA draft, is ready to make her season debut for the Los Angeles Sparks Tuesday in opposition to the Las Vegas Aces, 13 months after tearing her left ACL.
Brink and Sparks coach Lynne Roberts instructed reporters the information Monday at apply, because the Sparks head into Tuesday’s contest on a league-best five-game win-streak.
The 2021 nationwide champion at Stanford instructed media this previous weekend in New York that she had been cleared to return and was working to get game-ready.
Brink, a 6-foot-4 ahead, was averaging 7.5 factors, 5.3 rebounds and a pair of.3 blocks per sport earlier than happening with the damage on June 18, 2024, 15 video games into her rookie marketing campaign. She revealed earlier this 12 months on Celeb Wheel of Fortune that she additionally tore her meniscus on the play.
Along with being sidelined for the rest of that WNBA season, she needed to miss the 2024 Paris Olympics after having been named to the USA 3×3 basketball workforce.
The Sparks stumbled to a 8-32 end final season and are tenth within the standings this season, however after their present win streak are one sport again from a playoff spot.