Canada’s Nurse looks forward to taking her responsibility as role model to WNBA
TORONTO — Kia Nurse was just 15 when her uncle Donovan McNabb took her to a Minnesota Lynx game.
Nurse and McNabb, a 13-year NFL veteran who’d just been traded to the Vikings, had courtside seats at Target Center, and the sights and sounds of women’s basketball at its highest level left an indelible impression on the young Canadian player.
The 22-year-old from Hamilton was selected 10th overall by the New York Liberty in Thursday night’s WNBA draft, and the morning after she remembered that Lynx game.
“It was amazing. I have a picture of me with Maya Moore (a five-time WNBA all-star and fellow UConn product), looking star struck and in awe in the picture,” Nurse said.