Sylvia Fowles, Sue Bird Hanging Up Their Shoes

Left Photo Credit: • CC BY-SA 3.0 Sue Bird at 2 August 2015 game, 2 August 2015, Source Danny Karwoski
Right Photo Credit: Lorie Shaull • CC BY 2.0 Sylvia Fowles addresses fans during a tribute to her after the Minnesota Lynx vs Seattle Storm game at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota 12 August 2022, 22:19:08

You can’t mention women’s basketball without mentioning Sylvia Fowles and Sue Bird; you can’t talk about the WNBA without mentioning them.

Like all things in life, everything must come to an end. The basketball world is sad with the retirement of Sylvia Fowls and Sue Bird.

Fowles, 2008 No.2 overall draft pick out of LSU, concluded her career Sunday at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she was traded in 2015 and played the last eight seasons of her career.

According to ESPN, the WNBA all-time great finished her historic career with 6,415 points, 4,0006 rebounds, and 721 blocks in 15 seasons.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist, two-time WNBA champion, four-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, 2017 WNBA MVP, two-time Finals MVP, eight-time All-Star, and the WNBA’s all-time leading rebounder.

Her list of accolades goes on and on.

Fowls can hang up her shoes after giving the game everything she had.

The end is also near for Sue Bird. UCONN set the stage for the super-stardom of Bird in the early 2000s.

The Seattle Storm selected Bird with the first overall pick of the 2002 WNBA draft, the year that the WNBA implemented a lottery that arranged the order of the first four overall picks.

Bird played 19 seasons in 21 years, the entirety of her professional career with Seattle.

Bird will bow out of the league as WNBA’s career leader in assists. She’s also a four-time WNBA champion and 13-time WNBA All-Star.

Fowles and Bird are two of the league’s all-time greats.