SEATTLE \u2014\u00a0Seattle Storm\u00a0players\u00a0Ezi Magbegor and\u00a0Jade Melbourne\u00a0were selected to\u00a0represent the Australian Opals at the FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup in Berlin September\u00a04-13.<\/p>\n
Magbegor, a two-time Olympian and member of Australia’s bronze medal-winning\u00a0team at the 2024 Paris Olympics, is also a two-time FIBA World Cup medalist, earning silver in 2018 and bronze in 2022.\u00a0The 6-foot-6 forward\/center is a four-time WNBA All-Defensive Team honoree who helped the Storm win the WNBA championship in 2020 and the 2021 Commissioner\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n
Melbourne, a 2024 Olympic bronze medalist and Rising Star of the Paris Games, is having one of the best seasons of her career. The Storm guard is averaging career highs in points (8.8), assists (3.8), rebounds (2.0) and steals (0.9) while shooting 45.9% from the field.<\/p>\n
The 2026 FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup will feature the world’s top 16 national teams in a 10-day competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014\u00a0Seattle Storm\u00a0players\u00a0Ezi Magbegor and\u00a0Jade Melbourne\u00a0were selected to\u00a0represent the Australian Opals at the FIBA Women\u2019s World Cup in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-787967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}