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A most Val-uable president

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, October 22, 2004

Back in August 1996, Val Ackerman got the job of WNBA president. This meant, of course, that there was actually going to be a WNBA, which I ran around in my head over and over. I was still not quite sure I believed it. After we'd waited so long for a pro women's basketball league, suddenly things seemed to be happening so fast. I'd first seen Ackerman a few months earlier at the 1996 Final Four in Charlotte, talking about the league's strong possibility of launching. Also giving a presentation ...

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