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Recently, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced that Sacramento Monarchs icon Yolanda Griffith a seven-time WNBA All-Star, the 1999 WNBA MVP and a WNBA champion in 2005 has been nominated for induction into its hallowed halls. Related
A 2014 inductee into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, Griffith not only is a deserving Hall of Famer because of all she accomplished on the basketball court which was
a lot but also because of how she is a symbol of a particular, important era of women’s basketball history.
Griffith’s peripatetic basketball path was exemplary of elite women’s basketball players of her generation, coming of professional age just as the ABL and WNBA were established. Griffith, like many of her peers, had to navigate struggles and sacrifices before, eventually, finding great success.