If you thought basketball surprises couldn’t get any stranger, think again. The Indiana Fever just signed a player they barely knew. “We’ve seen Odyssey [Sims] in this league, and we know what she does. Kyra is a little more unfamiliar,” Coach White said after bringing Kyra Lambert in on a 7-day hardship contract. “So we’re trying to find the best positions to put her in.” Tough times, clearly, call for extreme measures.

With Sydney Colson and Aari McDonald out for the season with a knee injury and a bone injury, respectively, the Indiana Fever were desperate for reinforcements against Phoenix. They signed Odyssey Sims, a veteran with 11 years of solid experience. But their second addition? A player who has played exactly zero WNBA games before.

Interestingly, this was a signing that

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