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Temi Fagbenle
British-American basketball player (born )
Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Títílọlá "Temi" Fágbénlé is an American-born Nigerian-British professional basketball player for the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Super League.
She was chosen for the Great Britain team at the Summer Olympics.
Personal life
Fagbenle was born on 8 September to a Nigerian family in Baltimore, Maryland, and has eleven siblings, including actor O. T. Fagbenle, film producer Luti Fagbenle, and video producer Oladapo 'Daps' Fagbenle.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Her family moved to London, United Kingdom when she was aged 2 and she began playing basketball at the Haringey Angels club.[8] When she was fifteen she returned to the United States to study at Blair Academy in New Jersey.[5] She attended Harvard University before transferring to the University of Southern California for her final year of NCAA basketball.[6] As of [update] she was metres (6&#;ft 4&#;in) tall and weighs kilograms (&#;lb).[4]
High school career
During her time at Blair Academy Fagbenle was voted on to the McDonald's All American High School team.[5]
Professional career
Fagbenle has won several national championships in Spain, Italy and Great Britain as well as the EuroCup with the London Lions.
WNBA
Minnesota Lynx (–)
In her WNBA rookie season she won the WNBA championship as a member of the Minnesota Lynx.
Indiana Fever ()
In January , Fagbenle was signed by the Indiana Fever to a training camp contract.[9] She made the final roster and appeared in the first eight regular season games (24 minutes / points / rebounds) during the first month of the season for the Fever before suffering an undisclosed left foot injury.[10]
Golden State Valkyries (–present)
On December 6, , Fagbenle was selected as the Golden State Valkyries' pick from the Indiana Fever's roster in the WNBA's expansion draft.[11]
International career
She has represented Great Britain at the under, 18 and 20 levels and competed at the FIBA Europe Under Championship held in Serbia.[6]
She was named in the British team for the women's basketball tournament at the Summer Olympics in London having been fast-tracked into the senior side from the unders.[12] She averaged points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, blocks and 1 steal in minutes per game.
GB went and failed to qualify from their group.[13]
Her selection for the Olympics came after a month period in which she was unable to play for the Harvard Crimson women's basketball team due to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) declaring her ineligible.[6] Fagbenle had taken the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam whilst at school in the UK and NCAA rules say that an athlete must be enrolled in college within two years of sitting for the exam; Fagbenle took an additional year to graduate from high school because she repeated a year after moving to the United States.[14]
Career statistics
| &#;&#;GP | Games played | &#;&#;GS&#; | Games started | &#;MPG&#; | Minutes per game | &#;RPG&#; | Rebounds per game |
| &#;APG&#; | Assists per game | &#;SPG&#; | Steals per game | &#;BPG&#; | Blocks per game | &#;PPG&#; | Points per game |
| &#;TO&#; | Turnovers per game | &#;FG%&#; | Field-goal percentage | &#;3P%&#; | 3-point field-goal percentage | &#;FT%&#; | Free-throw percentage |
| &#;Bold&#; | Career best | ° | League leader |
WNBA
Regular season
Stats current through end of regular season
| Year | Team | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Did not play (continuing education) | |||||||||||||
| † | Minnesota | 21 | 0 | — | |||||||||
| Minnesota | 30 | 2 | — | ||||||||||
| Minnesota | 18 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Did not appear in WNBA | |||||||||||||
| Indiana | 22 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Career | 4 years, 2 teams | 91 | 4 | ||||||||||
Playoffs
| Year | Team | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| † | Minnesota | 2 | 0 | — | — | ||||||||
| Minnesota | 1 | 0 | — | ||||||||||
| Minnesota | 1 | 0 | — | — | |||||||||
| Indiana | 2 | 1 | — | ||||||||||
| Career | 4 years, 2 teams | 4 | 1 | — |
College
| Year | Team | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| –13 | Harvard | 29 | 28 | ||||||||||
| –14 | Harvard | 30 | 30 | ||||||||||
| –15 | Harvard | 27 | 27 | ||||||||||
| –16 | Southern California | 32 | 32 | ||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||||
References
- ^"Temi Fagbenle".
- Official Site of the WNBA.
- ^Fagbenle, Temi (7 July ). "Passions: Basketball star loves to tread the boards" &#; via
- ^"Temi Fagbenle has many ambitions, and one is to play for the Lynx". Star Tribune.
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(6 December ). "WNBA expansion draft live updates: Golden State Valkyries pick their players for ". USA Today. Retrieved 6 December
- ^Telegraph Staff (22 June ).
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- ^"Temi Fagbenle's profile - Olympic Women". FIBA. Retrieved 11 May
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