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Alexa PhilippouJul 28, 2025, 05:55 PM ET
- Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Cameron Brink, the No. 2 pick in the 2024 WNBA draft, is set to make her season debut for the Los Angeles Sparks Tuesday against the Las Vegas Aces, 13 months after tearing her left ACL.
Brink and Sparks coach Lynne Roberts told reporters the news Monday at practice, as the Sparks head into Tuesday’s contest on a league-best five-game win streak.
The 2021 national champion at Stanford told media this past weekend in New York that she had been cleared to return and was working to get game-ready.
Brink, a 6-foot-4 forward, was averaging 7.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game before going down with the injury on June 18, 2024, 15 games into her rookie campaign. She revealed earlier this year on “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” that she also tore her meniscus on the play.
In addition to being sidelined for the remainder of that WNBA season, she had to miss the 2024 Paris Olympics after having been named to the USA 3×3 basketball team.
The Sparks stumbled to an 8-32 finish last season and are 10th in the standings this season, but after their current win streak are one game back from a playoff spot.
