Last Wednesday, September 2nd, Minnesota Lynx's center, Damiris Dantas, faced the Chicago Sky and had a memorable night for her outstanding performance. Top scorer of the game with 28 points and a key strategic player on her team's 86 to 83 win, she also reached the highest score of her career and made history with the third best score of a Brazilian playing in the WNBA and the fifth highest score of a foreigner in the American basketball history, landing even ahead of Svetlana Abrosimova with a record of 27 points in 2001.
Her teammate, Chrystal Dangerfield, was the second highest scorer with 15 points, while in Chicago, Allie Kigley scored 23. And it was not only there that our dear Damiris shone, since she ended the game with a 100% precision in 3-point shots and also grabbing 7 rebounds. This performance puts her in a position of MVP favorite being the player who has evolved the most in the season.
With all this excelled performance and energy, Damiris approaches her predecessors Iziane Marques, with 32 points in 2010 and Janeth Arcain, who scored 29 points in 2001. In the NBA, Leandrinho Barbosa's best score, with 41 points in the 2008/2009 season, followed by Nenê, aged 30, in the 2013/2014 season.
