The Warehouse gym is a little off the beaten track, plopped south of an interstate highway, behind a hidden road.
“You have to be kind of a real O.G. baller to know where it is,” Jewell Loyd said.
Loyd, fresh off a second W.N.B.A. championship with the Seattle Storm, is that type of baller.
The gym, in Northbrook, Ill., hosts one of the many courts where Loyd honed the game that earned her the nickname “Gold Mamba” from Kobe Bryant. It’s home to the courts where, years earlier, she and her brother, Jarryd Loyd, witnessed future pros like Dee Brown and Iman Shumpert nurturing their skills during lively pickup games and lengthy training sessions.