Sue Bird

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Sue Bird
Information about the player
Full name Suzanne Brigit Bird
Nickname Birdy
birthday October 16, 1980 (39 years 318 days)
place of birth Syosset , New York , USA
size 175 cm
position Point guard
college University of Connecticut
WNBA Draft 2002 , 1st pick, Seattle Storm
Jersey number 10
Clubs as active
2004-2006 RussiaRussia ŽBK Dynamo Moscow
2006-2011 RussiaRussia Spartak Moscow Oblast
2011-2014 RussiaRussia UGMK Yekaterinburg
WNBA clubs as active
2002– United StatesUnited States Seattle Storm
1 As of December 27, 2018

Suzanne "Sue" Brigit Bird (born October 16, 1980 in Syosset , New York ) is an American - Israeli basketball player . The 1.75 meter tall Bird is mainly used in the position of the point guard . In the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), she has been the number 1 draft pick for the Seattle Storm since the 2002 season . Due to injury, she did not play a game for the team in the 2013 season.

After winning titles in high school and college , Bird was selected first in the 2002 WNBA Draft by the Seattle Storm . In her third WNBA season , she won her first championship title with the Storm. Two more titles followed in 2010 and 2018 . In addition, she won gold medals with the US national team four times at the 2004 , 2008 , 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and four times the world title. In the WNBA season breaks, she played between 2006 and 2011 for the club Spartak Moskowskaja Oblast, with whom she won the Euroleague Women four times in a row from 2007 to 2010. From 2011 to 2014 she was in the Russian league and the Euroleague for UGMK Yekaterinburg under contract.

Childhood and youth

Suzanne Brigit Bird was born on October 16, 1980, the younger of two children in Syosset near Oyster Bay on Long Island . Her father, Herschel, was a cardiologist, and her mother, Nancy, was a high school nurse . Her father's family is of Jewish descent and originally from Russia, their real last name being Boorda. At the beginning of the 20th century, her grandfather brought his family to the United States via Ellis Island , where the name Bird developed from the name Boorda. Sue first got into basketball at the age of seven, mainly due to her older sister Jennifer. During the sixth grade, she joined an amateur athletic union team.

Career

High School (1994-1998)

In her youth, Bird first attended Syosset High School , but after two years moved to Christ The King Regional High School and played for their high school basketball team. In her senior year of high school , she averaged 16.3 points and 7.3 assists per game and won the national and state championships with her team. She also received New York City Player of the Year and New York State Player of the Year awards in her senior year . After receiving several offers from colleges, Stanford University , Vanderbilt University, and University of Connecticut made it onto her shortlist. In the end, she chose the University of Connecticut.

College (1998 to 2002)

Sue Bird with Chris Dodd

Bird studied at the University of Connecticut from 1998 to 2002 and graduated with a degree in communications. During this time she also played for the university's women's basketball team, the Connecticut Huskies . In total, Bird completed four seasons for the Huskies, with which she won the 2000 and 2002 NCAA Division I Basketball Championships of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). When he won the championship in 2002, Bird won all season games with the Huskies. During her time in college, she won a total of 136 out of 145 games. She has received numerous honors and awards for her outstanding achievements in university sports, including the Wade Trophy in 2002 and Bird named Naismith College Player of the Year .

WNBA (since 2002)

Rookie season (2002)

Bird attracted the attention of the Women's National Basketball Association franchises because of their good work for the Huskies . The head coach of the Seattle Storm , Lin Dunn , and her staff pursued their athletic development since her freshman season review at the University of Connecticut . Because of her performance in college, Dunn Bird was considered as a possible first draft pick in the 2002 WNBA Draft . But Swin Cash and Stacey Dales-Schuman were also shortlisted by Storm. At the draft, Bird was finally chosen first by the Storm.

Bird quickly integrated into the Storm squad in her 2002 rookie season and rose early to become a leader alongside Lauren Jackson . Bird finished her first season averaging 14.4 points, six assists and 1.72 steals per game. She also hit 91 percent of her free throws (WNBA record 2002). With the help of Bird, the Storm became more competitive and made it to qualify for the playoffs for the first time. In the playoffs, Bird failed with the Storm in the first round in best-of-three mode in two games at the Los Angeles Sparks . Because of her outstanding performance for the Storm, she was named to the All-WNBA First Team in her first season .

Championship win (2003 to 2004)

In the 2003 season , she completed the entire season despite a knee injury. Bird led the team, as in the previous season, with the most assists and steals per game. At the end of the season she was called up again to the All-WNBA First Team , she was also elected to the Western Conference All-Star Team for the second time . Due to a wave of injuries to her teammates, Bird did not make it into the playoffs for the first time with the Storm.

On March 4, 2004, Anne Donovan , who had taken over the post of head coach of Storm 2003 from Lin Dunn, that Sue Bird's contract would be extended by several years, so that Bird was also in the 2004 squad of Storm. In her third season, she managed with the Storm again qualification for the playoffs, in which she met the Minnesota Lynx in the Conference semifinals . After the Storm won the first game in Minnesota, the Storm met Minnesota in front of their own audience in the second game. After a few minutes, Bird had to quit the game due to a broken nose. Tully Bevilaqua replaced Bird for the rest of the season and helped the Storm win the series after the second game. Despite the broken nose, Bird decided to play against the Sacramento Monarchs in the Conference Finals , which she did with a protective mask. After Sacramento and Seattle each won their home game, Bird underwent an operation on her nose the day before the crucial game against Sacramento. Despite the operation the day before, Bird stood on the field against the Monarchs and set a new WNBA playoff record with 14 assists. The Storm finally won game three and thus moved into the WNBA finals for the first time. In the finals, Bird faced the Connecticut Sun with the Storm . Before the first game, she was recognized for her call-up to the All-WNBA First Team . In the finals, the Storm defeated the Sun 2-1 in games, which Bird won the WNBA championship for the first time in their third season.

Sue Bird (# 10) with Lauren Jackson (# 15)

Changing years (2005 to 2008)

At the beginning of the 2005 season , she broke her nose again, which is why Bird was out for four games. During the season she was elected to the starting line-up of the Western Conference All-Star Team . Bird won the All-Star Game again with the Western Conference All-Star Team and also won the All-Star Skills Challenge . At the end of August, she was named WNBA Player of the Week for the first time in her career . The Storm finished the regular season in second place, which they met in the playoffs on the Houston Comets . After the Storm won their first game in Houston, the Storm had two home games to win the series. In the second game, the Storm were leading 2:48 minutes before the end with 62:59. After a lay-up by Michelle Snow brought the Comets to one point of the Storm, Bird owed a turnover in the subsequent attack with a reckless pass , which the Comets subsequently took the lead and won the second game. After the third game was lost, the season ended for Bird, who was then called up for the fourth time in the All-WNBA First Team , in the Conference Semifinals.

Prior to the 2006 season , Bird was elected to the WNBA All-Decade Team . On August 1, 2006, Bird scored her 2,000th point in the WNBA against the Lynx, and she was re-elected to the Western Conference All-Star Team . After Bird had just qualified for the playoffs with the Storm, she was eliminated with the Storm again in the Conference Semifinals against the Sparks. At the end of the season, Bird was not appointed to the All-WNBA First Team or the All-WNBA Second Team for the first time in her career .

The 2007 season was very similar to the previous one. Shortly before the All-Star Game , in which she was re-elected to the Western Conference All-Star Team , she canceled her participation because she underwent an operation on her left knee in Connecticut. Due to the operation, she was not available to the Storm for five games. On June 24, 2007, Bird scored her 1,000th assist in the WNBA against the New York Liberty and, at age 26, became the youngest player in the WNBA to reach the 1,000-assist mark. In the playoffs, she failed with the Storm for the third time in a row in the conference semifinals.

Sue Bird in a game against the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2008 playoffs

After Anne Donovan left the team before the 2008 season , Brian Agler was introduced as the team's new head coach on January 9, 2008 . Because of this coaching change, it was Agler who led the negotiations with Bird in 2008 about a possible contract extension. On March 14, 2008, he announced that the contract with Bird had been renewed for several years. Her seventh season in the WNBA was significantly better than the previous two. At the end of the season, Bird was appointed to the All-WNBA Second Team , and she was first traded as a possible WNBA MVP. In the election of the WNBA MVP , she received the third most votes. Despite the failure of Lauren Jackson at the end of the season, Bird led the Storm into the playoffs, where they failed as in 2006 at the Sparks.

Peak performer and winning the championship again (2009 to 2011)

In the 2009 season , the Storm completed their tenth season in the WNBA. On this occasion, Bird was elected to the Storm All-Decade Team by the Storm fans . Bird was this season, like five times before, selected in the starting line-up of the Western Conference All-Star Team , also she scored her 3,000th point in the WNBA on July 17, 2009 against the Monarchs. At the end of the season, she was awarded the WNBA Peak Performer Award for the first time in her career , as she had achieved the most assists of all players in the WNBA. As a team, the regular season went much better than the previous one, although Bird (pain in the neck area) was out for several games. Before the playoffs, Bird renewed her contract for two years with the Storm. In the playoffs Bird failed with the Storm for the third time in four years at the Sparks.

In the 2010 season , Bird finished the season with the Storm with 28 wins from 34 games for the first time as the best team in the Western Conference. Bird showed a very solid performance again in the regular season, which is why she was appointed to the All-WNBA Second Team for the second time in her career . In the playoffs she did not lose a single game with the Storm, making her the second time in her career to win the WNBA championship. With her accuracy in decisive phases, Bird played a large part in this success. In the second game of the Western Conference Finals against the Mercury, she blocked an attempt by Temeka Johnson and in the following attack, 2.8 seconds before the end of the game, she used a 3-point throw and thus secured the Storm entry into the finals. In the first game of the finals, Bird decided the game in favor of the Storm with a jump shot in the last seconds.

In the 2011 WNBA season , the Storm had to go without Lauren Jackson for most of the time . Because of this failure, Bird increasingly sought the conclusion in the attacking game of the Storm. This is also reflected in her stats when she finished the season with an average of 14.7 points, which was a new personal record. In the summer, the fans voted Bird into the starting line-up of the Western Conference All-Star Team for the seventh time . In addition, she was named one of the top 15 players in league history. During the regular season she was the sixteenth player to reach the 4,000 point mark. Despite these many individual successes, team success failed to materialize this season when they failed with the Storm in the first round of the playoffs to the Phoenix Mercury. At the end of the season she was elected to the All-WNBA Second Team .

Knee and hip problems (since 2012)

On February 8, 2012, Bird renewed her contract with the Storm. Agler, Storm's head coach, did not disclose the length of the new contract, but stated that Sue Bird will be given a new one in case they wish to continue with the WNBA after their current contract expires. Since Lauren Jackson only guaranteed her support for the franchise after the Olympic Games in London, Bird was also challenged in the first half of the season in the first half of the season. It was only with the return of Jackson that she was able to concentrate more on her role as the franchise playmaker. Over the course of the season she repeatedly had problems with her hip, which meant that she was unable to play five regular season games due to an injury. Even in the playoffs, where the Storm met the favored Minnesota Lynx , there were concerns about their health in the franchise despite their willingness to work. After a mixed performance in the first game of the series (five turnovers), she was with 22 points and seven assists the most important player in the Storm in the second game, which was won after two extra times. In the decisive third game she was again the most outstanding player in the Storm with 18 points and eleven assists. In a turbulent final phase, in which Bird brought the Storm with a successful 3-point throw 35 seconds before the end of the game to one point on the Lynx, Jackson missed the chance of victory with a failed throw attempt in the last second, which for Bird the playoffs ended again after the first round. A few days after the end of the season, she underwent an operation on her left hip, which caused her increasing problems as the season progressed.

Because of a cyst in his left knee, Bird underwent knee surgery in early May, which means she will be absent for the entire 2013 season . For her, this was her fourth hip and knee operation in six years. Bird commented on the operation as follows: “Believe me when I say, I would much rather not be having these surgeries, but you have to play the hand you're dealt and if it means I can keep playing for the next four or five years so be it. “ After the injury she was again a pillar of the team in the 2014 and 2015 seasons and was in the starting line-up in all the games she played. In both seasons, the Storm does not reach the playoffs.

In 2016 and 2017 , Bird reached the playoffs again with the team, but then failed in the first round. In the 2016 season she was the best assistant in WNBA for the second time. At the end of the 2017 season , Bird became the WNBA's new Assist record holder. Bird also received the Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award for the second time after the 2017 season.

In the 2018 season , she became the first player to play her 500 WNBA game, beating the record of DeLisha Milton-Jones , who played 499 times in the WNBA. In addition, after the season, Bird received the Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award for the second year in a row and for the third time overall. Although Bird gave the most assists of her career that year, that didn't make her the best assistant in the league this time around. The 2018 season was also a very successful one with the Storm team. After finishing the regular season with the best record, the team automatically reached the semifinals due to the WNBA playoff system. There the team from Seattle was able to prevail in five games against the Phoenix Mercury . The third championship was secured by Storm and with it Sue Bird with a 3-0 win against the final debutants of the Washington Mystics .

International (since 2004)

First years in Europe (2004 to 2006)

Since 2004 Bird has played for various clubs in Europe during the WNBA season breaks. Between 2004 and 2006 she played for ŽBK Dynamo Moscow , with whom she reached the quarter-finals in the Euroleague Women in both seasons .

In December 2006, Bird mentioned in an interview that she had applied for Israeli citizenship to make it easier for her to play for a club overseas. Bird stated, “ Yes, I leave for Israel, where I will spend several days to finalize a process that has been ongoing for some time. I have applied for Israeli citizenship, which makes playing overseas a bit easier. There have been interviews and a lot of paperwork that I had to do, and now I have to go there to finish it up . ”(Analogous translation:“ Yes, I am going to Israel, where I will spend several days around an ongoing process I applied for Israeli citizenship which makes it easier for me to play overseas. There were interviews and a lot of paperwork that I had to do and now I have to go back there to finish it. ").

In the 2006/07 WNBA break, she finally received her Israeli citizenship, which allowed her to sign a three-year contract with Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast , without a rule that limits the number of US players per team violate.

Won the Russian Championship and Euroleague Women (2006 to 2008)

The regular season 2006/07 in the Russian Superleague ended Bird with the Spartak Moskowskaja Oblast in second place, which thus qualified for the playoffs. In the playoffs, both Dynamo Kursk in the quarter-finals and ŽBK Dynamo Moscow in the semifinals in best-of-three mode were clearly defeated in two games. In the final, she defeated the reigning champions CSKA Samara with Spartak in the best-of-five mode in the decisive fifth game with 88:72, whereby Bird won the Russian Superleague for the first time in her third season. In addition, she won the Euroleague Women for the first time with Spartak Moskowskaja Oblast .

In the 2007/08 season, Bird finished the season with Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast with 21 wins from 22 games for the first time as the best team in the Russian Superleague. Just before the end of the regular season, the Russian Basketball Cup was played. Bird, who was one of the most conspicuous players on her team with an average of 13.3 points and five assists per game, finished the tournament in third place. In the playoffs, as in the previous season, Spartak did not give a game in the quarterfinals and semifinals. In the final, Bird met again with Spartak against CSKA Samara, who this time were defeated in four games. Bird had a large share in this success, averaging 15.5 points in the final and leading her team in points in the third game. In the Euroleague Women, Bird, which took part in the Euroleague All-Star Game for the first time this season, again reached the final with 15 wins in 16 games. On April 13, 2008 she finally won the final of the Euroleague Women in Brno against BK Gambrinus Brno with 75:60. Bird, who was on the field for almost the entire length of the game with 39 minutes, scored 14 points and seven rebounds in the final.

Two more titles in the Euroleague Women (2008 to 2011)

The 2008/09 season was initially very similar to the previous one. Bird reached the playoffs again safely with Spartak Moskowskaja Oblast, where they moved into the final for the third time in a row with wins against Dynamo Kursk and CSKA Samara. In the final she met with Spartak on UGMK Yekaterinburg , where she had already failed with Spartak in the cup final. Unlike in previous seasons, this year the final was played in the best-of-three mode. Bird delivered very different services. In the end, UGMK Yekaterinburg was able to prevail with 2: 1 in games. While Bird failed to defend their title in the Russian Superleague with Spartak, she won the Euroleague Women championship for the third time in a row with an 85:70 win over Halcon Avenida . Bird was in the final the entire game on the field and scored 13 points, ten assists and six rebounds.

In the 2009/10 season she played her first game of the season for Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast in early 2010. A week earlier, she had extended her contract with the club. At the end of January, Bird and Spartak once again made it into the final of the Russian Basketball Cup, where they met the reigning champions and cup winners UGMK Yekaterinburg. The game was balanced over the entire duration of the game and was only decided in the last few seconds. Five seconds before the end of the game, Bird was fouled at 74:77 and received two free throws. After deliberately missing the second free throw, Bird fought for the ball that ricocheted off the basket, giving her the opportunity to equalize the game with a two-point throw and thus achieve overtime. However, their throw missed the target, which UGMK Yekaterinburg won the game with 77:75. Spartak finished the regular season in first place for the first time since 2008. In the playoffs, Bird won with Spartak in the quarterfinals and semifinals every game by at least twelve points, making them the fourth consecutive time to make it into the final of the Russian Superleague. As in the previous year, Spartak faced UGMK Yekaterinburg in the final. The final, which was played in the best-of-five mode, clearly went 3-0 to UGMK Yekaterinburg. While Bird scored only eight points and one assist in the first game, she got 20 points in the second game and 12 points in the third. In the Euroleague Women, Bird made it into the final again with Spartak, while Spartak defeated UGMK Yekaterinburg with 87:79 in the semifinals. On 11 April 2010 she won in Valencia the final of the Euro League Women against Ros Casares Valencia with 87:80. Bird, who was on the field for almost the entire length of the game at 39 minutes, scored five points and six assists in the final.

Sue Bird in the jersey of UGMK Yekaterinburg

After taking a break in the 2009/10 season until the end of 2009, she announced after the 2010 Basketball World Cup that she would not play a season game for Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast again until Christmas to avoid the injuries and strains of the past Months to fully recover. On January 5, she played her first game for Sparta & K, as the club has been called since mid-2010, in the 2010/11 season.

UGMK Yekaterinburg (2011 to 2014)

On May 5, 2011, Steve Costalas, General Manager of Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast, announced that Bird would not be on the club's squad in the 2011/12 season. Just eleven days later, UGMK Yekaterinburg announced the signing of Sue Bird for the 2011/12 season. She played her first game for UGMK Yekaterinburg on January 7, 2012 against Spartak Noginsk . Bird, who was not in the starting line-up in this game, scored 6 points, 3 rebounds and 4 steals in 23 minutes. She last played for the team from Yekaterinburg in 2014.

National team (since 2000)

Sue Bird has represented her home country in several international competitions. Her first assignment for the US national basketball team was in 2000 at the R. William Jones Cup , where she won her first gold medal. At the 2002 World Basketball Championship , the Americans won the gold medal after beating the Russian team in the final .

Before the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , she played 16 preparation games with the national team, all of which were won. 13 games took place in the spring, in which she averaged 4.4 points and 3.7 assists per game. The remaining three games took place just before the Olympics, with an average of 6 points and 1.7 assists per game. At the Olympic Games, she continued the winning streak with the national team and secured her first Olympic gold medal in this way.

Sue Bird at the 2012 Olympics

Winning the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics secured the national team participation in the 2006 World Basketball Championship , where they lost in the semifinals to the Russian selection . In the game for third place, the Brazilian national team was defeated, whereby Bird, who averaged 7.7 points and 4.6 assists per game, won the bronze medal.

At the American Championships in 2007, she also won the gold medal with the US team.

Bird was reassigned to the national team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , with which she again won gold in a superior manner.

On August 17, 2009, she was drafted into the US national team until 2012.

At the basketball world championship in 2010 she won the gold medal with the national team. The Americans won all nine games, which qualified the team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Bird was on the field in all nine games and averaged 5.6 points and 2.9 assists with an average playing time of 22.4 minutes per game. At the basketball world championship in 2014 she won the world title for the third time with the national team.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2016 in Rio de Janeiro , she won her Olympic gold medals three and four with the US national team.

At the 2018 basketball world championship , she won the world title for the fourth time with the national team and became the first basketball player to achieve this. Frank Bonner II: USA Downs Australia to Claim Third-Straight FIBA ​​World Cup Gold. usab.com, September 30, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .

Play style

Bird mostly plays in the position of point guard and is one of the best playmakers in the WNBA. Her former teammate Betty Lennox describes her as follows: “She finds her teammates so well and knows when and when not to take the shots.” (Analogous translation: “Bird has a good eye for her teammates, she also knows exactly when it makes sense to make a throw attempt and when not. "). Lauren Jackson also describes Bird as an excellent captain who takes on a lot of duties on the field and makes everyone around her better.

Their excellent playmaking qualities are also reflected in their statistics. In the WNBA she achieved 2,610 assists in 477 games, which is an average of 5.5 assists per game (as of the end of 2017). Thus, just ahead of Ticha Penicheiro (2,560), she is the record holder of assists in the history of the WNBA.

Bird himself not only attaches great importance to including her teammates as well as possible in the attacking game, but also to avoiding bad passes. Sue Bird explained: "When you have the ball in your hands the majority of the time with people trying to pressure you, forget assists for a second - if you can just not turn the ball over, that's huge. But if you can have assists double your turnovers, that's great. Triple them? Even better. " (Analogous translation:" If you are in possession of the ball most of the time while other players try to exert pressure on you, you forget assists for a moment - if you then do not cause any loss of the ball, that's great. If you do twice as much Obtaining a lot of assists and losing balls is of course great. Three times as many? Even better. "). She ended the 2010 season with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.2, which was the highest value in the entire WNBA this season. (An assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.2 means that she achieved 3.2 times as many assists as she caused ball losses).

In her WNBA Draft Scouting Report , she was described as an extremely safe shooter from the 3-point line. This ability makes them an extremely important factor in crucial phases of a game. During the 2009 and 2010 seasons, she hit a series of 3-point throws in the last seconds of a game. Lauren Jackson stated, “If you want the ball to be in anyone's hands at the end of the game (for a shot), it would definitely be her. She's good at it. She's proved it all year. She's hit a number of shots that have got us back into games, that have won us games, over the years. ” (Analogous translation:“ If you want the ball in the hands of a player at the end of a game, then it would definitely be hers. She's good at it. She's proven it all year. Over the years she's hit a few throws that brought us back into the game, that made us win. "). Brian Agler attributes this to her simply having the ability to concentrate incredibly well in situations like this.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG PPG GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG PPG
2002 Seattle Storm WNBA 32 32 35.0 40.3 40.1 91.1 2.6 6.0 14.4 2 2 36.5 40.9 27.3 100.0 0.0 6.0 14.0
2003 Seattle Storm WNBA 34 34 33.4 42.1 35.0 88.4 3.3 6.5 12.4 - - - - - - - - -
2004 Seattle Storm WNBA 34 34 33.4 46.3 43.8 85.9 3.1 5.4 12.9 8th 8th 29.1 37.7 30.0 76.2 3.3 5.3 8.5
2004/05 ŽBK Dynamo Moscow Euroleague Women 10 - 33.4 48.7 36.7 40.0 3.6 2.7 9.3
2005 Seattle Storm WNBA 30th 30th 34.0 44.2 43.7 85.5 2.4 5.9 12.1 3 3 34.3 27.3 13.3 87.5 1.7 4.3 9.0
2005/06 ŽBK Dynamo Moscow Euroleague Women 8th - 30.1 36.2 27.3 50.0 4.0 4.1 5.5
2006 Seattle Storm WNBA 34 34 31.4 41.1 36.6 86.8 3.0 4.8 11.4 3 3 35.3 36.1 33.3 62.5 2.7 3.3 12.7
2006/07 Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast Euroleague Women 10 - 19.6 39.0 31.6 88.9 2.0 2.5 4.6
2007 Seattle Storm WNBA 29 29 31.7 42.8 33.8 84.6 2.0 4.9 10.4 2 2 35.5 45.8 58.3 100.0 2.0 5.0 16.5
2007/08 Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast Euroleague Women 14th - 32.7 45.0 47.4 83.3 3.9 4.6 9.1
2008 Seattle Storm WNBA 33 33 33.7 44.1 34.3 87.1 2.5 5.1 14.1 3 3 37.0 46.0 29.4 100.0 2.3 3.0 19.7
2008/09 Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast Euroleague Women 17th - 33.8 43.9 40.9 82.6 3.6 5.9 11.2
2009 Seattle Storm WNBA 31 31 35.5 40.8 36.0 85.4 2.5 5.8 12.8 3 3 36.3 33.3 41.7 87.5 3.7 4.0 11.3
2009/10 Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast Euroleague Women 9 - 29.4 46.0 40.0 77.8 1.8 4.0 8.6
2010 Seattle Storm WNBA 33 33 30.5 43.4 39.9 85.7 2.7 5.8 11.1 7th 7th 37.0 38.6 33.3 76.9 4.1 7.7 12.1
2010/11 Spartak Moskovskaya Oblast Euroleague Women 9 - 33.1 40.6 40.7 100.0 2.0 3.0 11.6
2011 Seattle Storm WNBA 34 34 33.0 44.9 42.8 87.5 2.9 4.9 14.7 3 3 33.7 44.4 50.0 85.7 4.0 2.7 15.7
2011/12 UGMK Yekaterinburg Euroleague Women 9 - 29.0 40.5 42.9 100.0 1.7 2.7 10.1
2012 Seattle Storm WNBA 29 29 31.0 45.9 38.4 78.3 2.9 5.3 12.2 3 3 35.3 43.9 50.0 83.3 1.7 7.0 16.3
2012/13 UGMK Yekaterinburg Euroleague Women 3 - 33.7 25.0 37.5 100.0 6.7 6.7 5.7
2013 Seattle Storm WNBA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2014 Seattle Storm WNBA 33 33 29.2 38.6 34.5 83.1 2.2 4.0 10.6 - - - - - - - - -
2015 Seattle Storm WNBA 27 27 28.6 38.4 30.1 79.6 2.3 5.4 10.3 - - - - - - - - -
2016 Seattle Storm WNBA 34 34 31.6 44.9 44.4 78.6 2.9 5.8 12.8 1 1 34.2 35.7 33.3 0.0 5.0 7.0 12.0
2017 Seattle Storm WNBA 30th 30th 30.0 42.7 39.3 77.4 2.0 6.6 10.6 1 1 31.0 44.4 33.3 100 2.0 5.0 10.0
2018 Seattle Storm WNBA 31 31 26.6 46.6 44.8 82.8 1.7 7.1 12.1 8th 8th 28.4 38.7 36.4 75.0 2.8 6.9 12.1
WNBA total 508 508 31.8 42.9 38.9 85.2 2.6 5.6 12.1 47 47 33.2 39.3 36.0 82.8 2.9 5.5 12.1
Euroleague Women overall 89 - - - - - - - 8.9

Legend for player statistics:
(GP = total games; GS = games in the starting line-up; MPG = minutes played per game; FG% = throw rate from the field; 3P% = throw rate from the 3-point range; FT% = free throw rate; OFF = offensive Rebounds per game; DEF = defensive rebounds per game; RPG = rebounds per game; APG = assists scored per game; BPG = blocks scored per game; PPG = points scored per game)


Private

In June 2017, Bird announced her relationship with soccer player Megan Rapinoe .

literature

  • Goldberg Jeff: Bird at the Buzzer: UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women's Basketball Classic . University of Nebraska Press, 2011, ISBN 0-8032-2411-7 , pp. 9ff.

Web links

Commons : Sue Bird  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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