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Nearly a year ago, as the country sat still with shelter-in-place protocols in the rising phases of the coronavirus pandemic, Erica McCall found herself questioning whether she belonged in the WNBA.
McCall, who had a stellar four-year college basketball career at Stanford under the winningest head coach in women’s college basketball in Tara Ann VanDerveer, had just been waived by the Indiana Fever after three seasons, the same team that drafted her in the second round of the 2017 WNBA draft.
The former two-time, All-Pac-12 performer—who compares herself to the Warriors’ Draymond Green because of his energy and impact—did not handle the news well.