Vanessa Brooks was in a residency program at Duke when she received a LinkedIn message from Donnie Strack, the Thunder’s vice president of human and player performance. Strack had seen Brooks’ impressive resume, which included athletic training experience from her undergrad days at Georgia, a doctorate degree from Emory University in Atlanta, sports medicine work at Duke and what would soon be a physical therapy sports fellowship at Wake Forest. But despite her credentials, Brooks, then in her mid 20s, didn’t know how to respond. “I first thought, 'Oh no, LinkedIn has spam, too,'” Brooks said. But then Brooks decided to look Strack up. “Oklahoma City Thunder? Wait, what? No way,” Brooks