Sue Bird
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Suzanne Brigit Bird (born October 16, 1980) is an
American professional basketball player for the
Seattle Storm of the Women's National
Basketball Association (WNBA). Bird was drafted by the Storm first
overall in the 2002 WNBA draft and is considered to be one of the
greatest players in WNBA history.
Bird is the only WNBA player to win titles in three different
decades.
She held a front office position for the NBA's Denver Nuggets as their
Basketball Operations Associate. She has also played for three teams in
Russia. Her family is from Israel and she has both American & Israeli
citizenship.
Bird has won a joint-record four WNBA championships with the
Storm
(2004, 2010, 2018, 2020), a historic five Olympic gold medals (2004,
2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020), two NCAA Championships with UConn (2000,
2002); and four FIBA World Cups (2002, 2010, 2014, 2018). She is one of
only 11 women to attain all four accolades. She is also a five-time
EuroLeague Women champion (2007-2010, 2013). During her WNBA career, she
has been selected to eleven WNBA All-Star teams and eight All-WNBA
teams. Additionally, she was voted by fans as one of the WNBA's Top 15
Players of All Time in 2011, was voted into the WNBA Top 20 @ 20 as one
of the league's top 20 players of all time in 2016, and was voted into
The W25 as one of the league's top 25 players of all time in 2021. Her
fifth Olympic gold medal, at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, makes her
one of only two Olympic basketball players—of either gender—ever to win
five gold medals, with the other player being her US Olympic teammate
Diana Taurasi.
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