After months of rehab and time off the court, Alaina Coates is set to return to competitive basketball ... as soon as she collects her college degree.
Coates, the former South Carolina women’s basketball great, made her first public remarks in several months Friday, signing autographs and posing for pictures with several dozen fans at a Chick-fil-A while wearing a shirt featuring the team that picked her second overall in the WNBA draft nearly eight months ago, the Chicago Sky.
According to Coates, the ankly injury that abruptly curtailed her senior season at USC and kept her from making her professional debut this past summer is healed.