Nyara Sabally has played all of 40 minutes in the WNBA, having appeared in four games in this, her de facto rookie season. Yet, it’s hard to say her career will ever be anything but an objective success; Sabally, after all, made it here in the first place. She made it here after two torn ACLs during her time at the University of Oregon. She’s here, playing rotation minutes on a “superteam” right after another knee injury delayed her WNBA debut by a year.
Not many 23-year-olds can look in the rearview mirror at their career and feel satisfied, even proud to the extent that Sabally can.