Cappie Pondexter
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| birthday | January 7, 1983 | |
| place of birth |
Oceanside , California , United States
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| size | 175 cm | |
| position | Shooting Guard | |
| college | Rutgers University | |
| WNBA Draft | 2006 , 2nd pick, Phoenix Mercury | |
| Jersey number | 25th | |
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| 2006-2008 |
 Fenerbahçe Istanbul
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| 2008–2012 |
 UGMK Yekaterinburg
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| 2012-2014 |
Fenerbahçe Istanbul
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| 2015-2016 |
Beşiktaş JK Istanbul
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| 2016-2017 |
 Girne University
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| WNBA clubs as active | ||
| 2006-2009 |
Phoenix Mercury
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| 2010-2014 |
New York Liberty
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| 2015-2017 |
Chicago Sky
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| 2018 |
Los Angeles Sparks
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| 2018 |
Indiana Fever
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| 1 As of July 26, 2019 | ||
Cappie Pondexter (born January 7, 1983 in Oceanside , California , United States ) is a professional basketball player. She last played in 2018 for the Indiana Fever in the Women's National Basketball Association as Shooting Guards .
Career
college
Cappie Pondexter played for the Scarlet Knights women's basketball team at Rutgers University from 2002 to 2006 .
Women's National Basketball Association
Pondexter was selected second in the 2006 WNBA Draft by the Phoenix Mercury . In the 2006 season she made the leap into the Western All-Star Team as a rookie. However, they just missed the playoffs with the Mercury. In the 2007 season she finished the regular season with the Mercury in first place in the Western Conference. In the playoffs, she made it with the Mercury to the WNBA Finals, where she averaged 22 points per game. Together with Diana Taurasi (19.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.4 steals) she not only led the Mercury to their first WNBA championship title, but Pondexter was also named WNBA Finals MVP .
After the 2008 season ended without a playoff participation, Pondexter was able to contribute with their performance to get the second WNBA title for the team from Phoenix in the 2009 season . Before the 2010 season, she moved to the New York Liberty team as part of a trade . She played for Liberty for five seasons. As in Phoenix, she was in the starting line-up for every game she played in New York. Despite her continued good performance, the team did not succeed. During this time, the playoffs were reached only three times and only one series was won there.
Pondexter has been playing for the Chicago Sky team since the 2015 season . There she was able to reach the playoffs twice. In 2016 , for the first time in her WNBA career, she was not part of the team's starting line-up in some games and her playing times fell below 30 minutes per game for the first time. This development continued into the 2017 season. There she was still in the team's starting line-up in 15 games and scored less than 10 points per game for the first time in her career. In addition, she missed the playoffs for the first time with the Sky.
After her contract with the Chicago Sky expired, Pondexter signed a contract with the Los Angeles Sparks before the 2018 season . After 13 games for the Sparks without a game in the starting lineup, she was released again. Shortly thereafter, she signed a contract with the Indiana Fever until the end of the season as a free agent .
Before the 2019 season, Pondexter ended her basketball career in the WNBA. Up to this point, she played in 13 WNBA seasons in the regular season 416 games, she was 382 times in the starting lineup and scored 6811 points, 1520 rebounds and 1578 assists. In 38 playoff games (36 of them in the starting line-up) she scored 714 points, 137 rebounds and 153 assists.
Pondexter was named one of the WNBA's Top 15 Players of All Time for their achievements in the WNBA for the league's 15th anniversary in 2011 . She is a seven-time WNBA All-Star, was called three times to the All-WNBA First Team ( 2009 , 2010 , 2012 ) and once to the WNBA All-Defensive Team ( 2010 ).
Europe
During the WNBA season break, Cappie Pondexter plays like many WNBA players in Europe. She was on the field for teams from Turkey, Northern Cyprus and Russia. Most recently she played for the North Cypriot team at Girne University in the 2016/17 season .
International
Cappie Pondexter played on the US national team early on. In 2001, she and the team took 3rd place at the 2001 Women's World Junior Championships and won the title at the 2003 Women's World Basketball Championships . At the American Basketball Championship for women in 2007 , she played her part in winning her first senior title. In 2008 she won the gold medal with the US national basketball team at the Summer Olympics in Beijing .
Web links
- WNBA player profile
- Statistics about the player on basketball-reference.com (engl.)
- FIBA overview of participation in international tournaments
- FIBA Europe overview of participation in European tournaments
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/22440118/cappie-pondexter-signs-los-angeles-sparks
- ↑ http://www.wnba.com/news/indiana-fever-sign-two-time-wnba-champ-seven-time-all-star-cappie-pondexter/
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pondexter, Cappie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oceanside , California |