Selected second overall in the 2018 Draft by the Indiana Fever, Kelsey Mitchell She is therefore playing her seventh WNBA campaign with the Indianapolis club, but she had never tasted the playoffs until now.
This will be the case this year, following the arrival of Caitlin Clark, since the team (20 wins – 19 losses) will finish with a balanced record for the first time since 2016, the year of the Fever's last participation in the postseason. Enough to offer a first round against the Connecticut Sun or the Las Vegas Aces.
At 28 years old, Kelsey Mitchell will therefore play her first WNBA playoff campaign, while she is the best scorer on her team, with an average of 19.6 points, just ahead of Caitlin Clark.
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And to prepare for this important deadline, she confided that she called a friend of hers who had already been there.
“I recently spoke to my friend D’Angelo Russell” she confided. “We’ve known each other for a long time. Him and I worked out together at Ohio State. We know each other a little bit, so it was good to have a conversation about the playoffs. I also got a chance to talk to [Miles] McBride… He had a great run with the Knicks, so he knows what it's like, too. We're from the same city. I like to get as much information as I can, and it's exciting to hear about it.”
The bad tongues will probably say that D'Angelo Russell is perhaps not the best person to discuss the playoffs, since he has often disappointed there, to the point of ending up on the bench in the 2023 conference final.
