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Rookies make big impacts at Finals

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

PHOENIX -- This is the way it works for most WNBA rookies: They end their college season, get drafted, race to finish schoolwork, head to training camp, make the team, adjust to everybody being bigger/faster/better than in college and hope they get playing time. But what usually hasn't happened -- even for the best of rookies -- is getting a chance to play for a WNBA title. What's notable about this season's WNBA Finals is that both teams have a rookie who is a key player. That has never real ...

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