JERUSALEM, March 3 (Xinhua) — Former WNBA star Liz Cambage has signed with Israeli State Cup holder Maccabi Bnot Ashdod, the membership introduced on Friday.
Cambage, four-time WNBA All-Star and 2018 high league scorer had spells with the Tulsa Shock, Dallas Wings, Las Vegas Aces, and Los Angeles Sparks.
The 31-year-old Australian middle introduced her retirement from the WNBA in August final 12 months, three weeks after parting methods with the Sparks.
“Liz is the greatest player to ever come to Israel,” Ashdod’s General Manager Uri Ben Simon instructed Xinhua. “Even our players are excited, no one believed that she would join the team.”
Ashdod presently leads the Israeli Premier League with 17 wins from 19 video games and goals to realize the Israeli double after successful the cup in January.
Cambage’s WNBA profession lined 167 video games with an averaging 15.8 factors and seven.5 rebounds in 24.5 minutes per recreation, alongside 11 playoff video games.
She additionally holds the WNBA single-game scoring report, logging 53 factors for Dallas in opposition to the New York Liberty in July 2018.
In between, she performed for the Zhejiang Chouzhou, the Beijing Great Wall, the Shanghai Swordfish, and the Shanxi Flame of the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA) league.
In the worldwide enviornment, Cambage took an Olympic bronze medal at London 2012, and a silver medal on the 2018 FIBA World Cup in Spain.
In July 2021, only a week earlier than the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, she pulled out of the video games, saying that she had been affected by panic assaults and a scarcity of sleep.