Former Gophers women’s basketball player Shae Kelley didn’t have too much time to make any lasting impressions fighting for one of the final roster spots on the Minnesota Lynx.
The rookie only played five minutes and took one shot — a miss — in the Lynx’s final preseason game against the New York Liberty on Monday.
The following day, Kelley was waived by the Lynx in preparation for the Women’s National Basketball Association’s cut-down deadline on Thursday.
Even though her team won’t start with Kelley on its roster during the 2015 season, Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve still had positive things to say following Monday night’s game about the second-to-last pick in the 2015 WNBA Draft.