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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.

        1. “I am thrilled to announce that Nneka has decided to continue her journey with the Sparks,” said Penny Toler, LA Sparks Executive Vice President.
        2. 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.
        3. Sparks general manager Penny Toler entered the locker room after Game 2 and challenged the team in a speech that included obscenities, racial epithets and.
        4. General manager Penny Toler gave the team a “spirited speech” after Game 2 and admitted to using the N-word “in context” but not at her players.
        5. 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