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Why Becky Hammon isn't a traitor

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Monday, August 11, 2008

BEIJING -- I don't get this whole Becky Hammon controversy. I mean, I see both sides of the issue, but it's not like she betrayed her nation by signing with the Yankees. Hammon loves her country. She grew up in Rapid City, S.D., with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt practically breathing down her neck from Mount Rushmore. She also loves basketball and earns a salary playing in Russia that is six times the amount she makes with the San Antonio Silver Stars of the WNBA (the end of c ...

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