Dearica Hamby replaces Cameron Brink on U.S. 3×3 group for Paris

Los Angeles Sparks ahead Dearica Hamby has been named because the substitute for injured teammate Cameron Brink on the U.S. 3×3 girls’s Olympic group, it was introduced Monday.

Brink was chosen to the group earlier this month however suffered a season-ending ACL damage in her left knee throughout the Sparks’ loss at Connecticut on June 18. That left a spot open on the Olympic group, and it went to Hamby.

“It’s an honor to announce Dearica Hamby’s addition to the USA 3×3 girls’s nationwide group and we look ahead to attending to work as a squad very quickly,” USA Basketball 3×3 nationwide group director Jay Demings stated in an announcement. “USA Basketball continues to maintain Cameron Brink in our ideas as she focuses on her restoration.”

Hamby has intensive 3×3 expertise with USA Basketball, together with within the 2023 FIBA AmeriCup, the place the USA received the gold medal. She additionally has participated in coaching camps for the U.S. 5-on-5 group.

Hamby, who received the 2022 WNBA championship with Las Vegas, is in her second season with the Sparks and has been one of many WNBA’s high gamers in 2024. She is main the Sparks in factors (17.8), rebounds (10.5), assists (3.5) and steals (1.5).

Hamby was the No. 6 choose of the 2015 WNBA draft out of Wake Forest. Chosen by San Antonio, she stayed with the franchise when it moved to Las Vegas in 2018 and was the WNBA Sixth Participant of the Yr with the Aces in 2019 and 2020. She was traded to Los Angeles earlier than the 2023 season.

She joins TCU’s Hailey Van Lith, former Tennessee/WNBA participant Cierra Burdick and the Atlanta Dream’s Rhyne Howard on the 3×3 group for the Paris Video games. Howard is at present out indefinitely with an ankle damage sustained June 19 however for now remains to be anticipated to play within the Olympics.

The U.S. girls received the gold medal in 2021 within the inaugural Olympic 3×3 competitors on the Tokyo Video games. Allisha Grey, Stefanie Dolson, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Younger had been on that group. Aces gamers Plum and Younger are on the U.S. 5-on-5 group for the Paris Video games.