Satou Sabally grabs in her first season Phoenix Mercury After the title in the WNBA finals.
Satou Sabally has sacrifice for her big dream of the title in the WNBA. There are many little ones who belong in the everyday life of a professional athlete, and some larger ones.
Foregoing the European Championship participation and the team changed
In early summer, Germany’s best basketball player did without the European Championship participation, before the season the 27-year-old Dallas returned after five years and started a new chapter in the Arizonas desert in Phoenix. “I was looking for a championship environment”said Sabally back then.
Eight months later, the Berlin native of New York is almost at its destination. From Saturday (2:00 a.m. CEST) Sabally will take the title with Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA finals. The duel with the Las Vegas Aces around MVP A’ja Wilson is held for the first time in best-of-seeven mode-and is supposed to crown Sabally’s career. “I am happy that I made the right decision”in retrospect Sabally to change, it was an honor, now “Side by side with the best of the best ” to play.
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“It is a dream that will come true”the Berliner said after the finals, in which she had a decisive part. In the fourth semifinals against the main round winner Minnesota Lynx Sabally scored 21 points, in the two games before that she had convinced with 24 and 23 points.
In the quarter -finals, Sabally, who immediately established herself as a leading player in Phoenix, even defended defenders New York Liberty Velvet her sister Nyara (25) out of the way. This did not lead to envy among siblings – on the contrary. “Shoutout to Nyara, she did it first”said Sabally after the final move into “ESPN“: “I’m just trying to follow my little sister’s footsteps.” The younger answered on Instagram: “Soon two rings in the family.”
Satou Sabally would only be the fourth German, who can call a WNBA master ring her own. Before Nyara Sabally and Leonie Fiebich last year, Marlies Askamp’s success from 2002 remained unmatched. Satou Sabally still needs four victories for her crowning glory. She still has to make a few victims. In the past, Sabally has adequately demonstrated that she is ready and able to do this.