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Becky Hammon’s not a traitor, she just loves basketball

Becky Hammon, WNBA All-Star, will be playing point guard for Russia at the Beijing Olympics later this summer.

Her critics namely US Women’s basketball coach Ann Donovan called her unpatriotic and a traitor. I feel that is way too harsh a word to use. 

After all we’re talking about a game, not espionage where lives could be endangered. Donovan needs to chill and tone down her rhetoric.

Watch the video, it will provide some important background into why I think Hammon has been wronged.

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