Elena Delle Donne has always been intrigued by 3-on-3 basketball since the sport entered Olympic play in 2021.

Now she'll get the chance to lead it, serving as USA Basketball's first managing director of the 3-on-3 women's national team .

“USA Basketball has been family ever since I started playing with them and then I started watching 3x3 and was captivated by it,” she said in a phone interview. “How quick the game was, the type of player it takes and the versatility and positionless basketball that I would have loved to play. That was where my interest began with it.”

She spent the last few months learning about the sport, going to a training camp in Phoenix and then taking in a tournament in Edmonton, Canada. That's when she got hooked by it.

“I would have loved to play it,” she s

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