Penny toler talks about nneka ogwumike mvp
Ogwumike has played for three WNBA coaches, if you count executive vice president/general manager Penny Toler's game stint as coach after Carol Ross was....
Toler expressed that she did not intend to cause harm to her players with her comments, but she also never apologized, at least not publicly.
No matter how you look at it, Nneka Ogwumike is the right pick for MVP
There was a moment earlier this season when there was a bit of a strange sound in Nneka Ogwumike's voice when she was asked about the difficulty of facing defending champion Minnesota.
Was that a little edge we heard from Ogwumike?
She of the perpetually cheerful disposition and easy, bubbling laugh? Yeah, it sounded that way.
She wasn't growling or anything like that. But she basically said she was pretty sure the Lynx were focusing on the Lynx, not the Sparks.
Thus, the Sparks needed to do the same thing: focus on themselves.
Maybe you could call it part of the competitive evolution of Ogwumike, who accomplished a career milestone by being named the WNBA's MVP on Tuesday.
She has always been a selfless player, going back to her great career at Stanford, the kind of player who was just concerned with what was best for her team.
She has maintained that attitude through her five yea