{"id":195622,"date":"2025-10-07T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195622\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:17:07","slug":"sparks-cameron-brink-reveals-wild-welcome-to-the-wnba-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/195622\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparks&#8217; Cameron Brink Reveals Wild &#8216;Welcome to the WNBA&#8217; Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4t\">Despite missing time due to injury, Los Angeles Sparks&#8217; star forward Cameron Brink appeared in just under 20 contests in 2025 \u2014\u00a0sporting per game averages of over five points and four rebounds in her second WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4w\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/sparks\/news\/sparks-rickea-jackson-talks-mindset-playing-through-injury-calls-out-opponents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sparks&#8217; Rickea Jackson Talks Mindset Playing Through Injury, Calls Out Opponents<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4z\">Brink spent over a year recovering from an ACL tear suffered in June of 2024 before a return to game action against the Las Vegas Aces on July 29.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From Monday \u2014 Sparks\u2019 Cameron Brink reacts to her season-ending nose injury suffered in LA\u2019s 2025 finale vs Aces:<\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0f\ud83d\udd17: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kMyVURw2GR\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/kMyVURw2GR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EJqL0gQmEj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EJqL0gQmEj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Geffner (@BenGeffner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenGeffner\/status\/1968126818449494509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"55\">Furthermore, midway through the first half of L.A.&#8217;s season finale, also against the Aces, at Crypto.com Arena in mid-September, Brink exited with a season-ending nose injury.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"58\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/sparks\/news\/former-sparks-guard-signed-by-fever-amid-caitlin-clark-s-absence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Sparks Guard Signed By Fever Amid Caitlin Clark&#8217;s Absence<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5b\">On a recent episode of Brink&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ZKD_UFGo1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Straight to Cam&#8221;<\/a> podcast, the purple and gold&#8217;s star forward reflected on her WNBA career and revealed her &#8216;Welcome to the League&#8217; moment \u2014\u00a0one that occurred early into her rookie campaign last year between WNBA veteran Tina Charles.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5e\">&#8220;You\u2019ll make a move, and then you\u2019ll be running down the court next to her, and she\u2019ll be like, \u2018You should have done this. Why didn\u2019t you go do that move? I\u2019m guarding you this way. What are you doing?\u2019 &#8230; So I would say that was my welcome to the league moment,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ZKD_UFGo1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brink said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Sparks News:<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5n\">For more news and notes on the Los Angeles Sparks, visit<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wnba\/sparks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Los Angeles Sparks on SI.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite missing time due to injury, Los Angeles Sparks&#8217; star forward Cameron Brink appeared in just under 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-195622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}