Daily News | Betnijah Laney watched her mother give back to the Philly basketball community. Now the WNBA standout is following her lead.
Yolanda Laney had a motherly instinct that her daughter, Betnijah, was going to be special in the basketball world. She knew it during a workout session at the Mallery Recreation Center in East Germantown, when young Betnijah paused to tell her mother, “I love basketball!”
“We were fortunate enough to have our needs met, but you see people around you who don’t have that same opportunity,” Betnijah said. “Everyone deserves to have some kind of resource. That’s just something that my mom has always provided to the community through basketball. Yolanda also played in the historic Sonny Hill League. She participated in the John Chaney-Sonny Hill basketball camp until her junior year when Hill started a girls’ program called the Developmental Basketball League.
“My goal when I saw all these inner-city kids out there on the playground was that this would be an avenue to help them get an education, a scholarship to college,” Yolanda said.
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