Chamique Holdsclaw: Story of the Michael Jordan of women’s basketball

Chamique Holdsclaw announced her retirement from the Los Angeles Sparks on June 11, 2007, though she eventually came out of retirement to play with the Atlanta Dream for the 2009 WNBA Season. [Photo: Courtesy]

Chamique Holdsclaw, 42, played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for 11 years — six of them with the Washington Mystics — and was a WNBA all-star six times.

The basketball arena is full of young men hailed as the “Next Michael Jordan.” Holdsclaw is a unique character and claims the distinction of being the first woman driven to the fringes by Jordanian expectations.