On the night before Arike Ogunbowale diced up Team USA in the 2021 WNBA All-Star Game, the 24-year-old Wings guard found herself seated in a near-empty Aria hotel ballroom alongside one of the sport’s all-time greats. Three-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie and other members of the 1996 gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team were in Las Vegas for the league’s showcase, which pitted this summer’s eventual Tokyo gold medalists against the W’s non–U.S. Olympian stars. The entire group convened Tuesday evening for a players-only dinner. After the meal concluded and photographs were snapped, Leslie sat down at a round table and led an impromptu seminar.
Arike Ogunbowale Is Unfazed
