Renee Montgomery did not expect to get much attention when she announced she would be opting out of the 2019–20 WNBA season. The Atlanta Dream point guard did not even think to schedule a press conference, electing to tweet her decision on June 18 and await the reaction.
But her team immediately reached out—a tweet was not going to be enough. The communications department was being bombarded by media requests from all over the country. Her announcement garnered a much bigger response than she had anticipated.
“That to me was when I was like, wow, so people really are ready to hear about this,” Montgomery says.