A WNBA player gets her due: via nytimes
of the 2012 W.N.B.A. finals, Tamika Catchings’s Indiana Fever were comfortably ahead of the Minnesota Lynx, poised to win their first championship.
From the moment Catchings stepped onto the floor — her pro career delayed a season by a knee injury that prematurely ended her senior season at Tennessee — she was an elite performer. Only Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, as a 34-year-old in the W.N.B.A.’s first year,than Catchings did in 2002, with Catchings earning an All-Star selection and leading her team to the playoffs.
“One thing my father always told me is that every single year you have these young players that are coming out, and they want to take your job, and they’re going to do whatever it takes,” said Catchings, whose father is the longtime N.B.A. forward Harvey Catchings. “So he always stressed the importance of every year, in the summer, figure out the things that you’re going to work on, figure out what you’re going to be better at.
“There’s a collection of her patented plays that will always be burned in my memory and they are her high-post drives left and her pursuit of 50/50 balls,” said Reeve, who is also Minnesota’s general manager. “She no doubt set the record in winning the 50/50 ball.”Tamika Catchings was part of the U.S. women’s basketball team that won gold at the Olympics in 2004.When Catchings envisions a Hall of Fame player, she said, she thinks of excellence on both ends of the court.
Catchings was known to do everything for her team, too. Her Fever teams reached the playoffs every season from 2005 to 2016, including W.N.B.A. finals appearances in 2009, 2012 and 2015. They did so without the kind of supporting cast typically found on finalists, instead relying on Catchings to elevate the play of her teammates.
“And I remember saying to myself in that moment, I hope and refuse to retire without a W.N.B.A. championship.”
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