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Your Day in Women’s Basketball, July 6: Liz Cambage to sit out WNBA Season

By Spencer Nusbaum

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - SEPTEMBER 22: Liz Cambage #8 of the Las Vegas Aces drives against LaToya Sanders #30 of the Washington Mystics during Game Three of the 2019 WNBA Playoff semifinals at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on September 22, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Aces defeated the Mystics 92-75. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - SEPTEMBER 22: Liz Cambage #8 of the Las Vegas Aces drives against LaToya Sanders #30 of the Washington Mystics during Game Three of the 2019 WNBA Playoff semifinals at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on September 22, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Aces defeated the Mystics 92-75. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /
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Aces’ Cambage becomes the biggest name to eschew 2020 season

Liz Cambage, perhaps the most dominant force in the WNBA (when healthy), is sitting out this season, Howard Megdal of The Next reported. It’s a sad loss for many: the Aces, basketball fans, highlight reels, Twitter beef connoisseurs, and probably Cambage herself. The league will not be as fun without her, but it is the right decision for her, and we have to respect that.

Veteran Avery Warley-Talbert, who played for the Liberty last year, will snag Cambage’s roster spot this season. The absence of Cambage has shed a light on a different Aces center, however: the third-year A’ja Wilson, who is already receiving MVP chatter with an open canvas in the Las Vegas frontcourt.

Maybe this was to be expected. She has posted about the importance of quarantining and warned about COVID risks before. And remember, she was wearing a mask before it was cool.

Cambage wasn’t the only one to opt-out over the weekend. Los Angeles Sparks assistant coach Fred Williams announced he will not join the team in Florida, as the 63-year old would likely be high-risk for the virus.

Williams is not the first coach to forgo the Florida trip (Storm head coach Dan Hughes announced last week that he will miss the season) and may not be the last.

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