Shatori Walker-Kimbrough
No. 32 – Gorzów Wielkopolski | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Shooting guard | ||||||||||||||
League | Basket Liga Kobiet | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, U.S. | May 18, 1995||||||||||||||
Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 140 lb (64 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | Hopewell (Aliquippa, Pennsylvania) | ||||||||||||||
College | Maryland (2013–2017) | ||||||||||||||
WNBA draft | 2017: 1st round, 6th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Washington Mystics | |||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2017–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Washington Mystics | ||||||||||||||
2017 | OGM Ormanspor | ||||||||||||||
2018 | MBK Ružomberok | ||||||||||||||
2018–2020 | Diósgyőri VTK | ||||||||||||||
2020 | Phoenix Mercury | ||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | Gorzów Wielkopolski | ||||||||||||||
2021 | Connecticut Sun | ||||||||||||||
2021–present | Washington Mystics | ||||||||||||||
2021–2022 | A.S. Ramat Hasharon | ||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | Maccabi Bnot Ashdod | ||||||||||||||
2023–2024 | Çankaya Üniversitesi S.K. | ||||||||||||||
2024–2025 | Gorzów Wielkopolski | ||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Stats at WNBA.com | |||||||||||||||
Stats at Basketball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (born May 18, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Gorzów Wielkopolski of the Basket Liga Kobiet. She played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and was drafted by the Mystics with the sixth overall pick in the 2017 WNBA draft.
College career
[edit]Walker-Kimbrough played four years of college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins between 2013 and 2017. She earned first-team All-Big Ten as a sophomore, junior and senior, and Big Ten All-Defensive Team as a junior and senior.[1]
Professional career
[edit]WNBA
[edit]Walker-Kimbrough was drafted with the sixth overall pick in the 2017 WNBA draft by the Washington Mystics.[2][3] She played her first three WNBA seasons with the Mystics.[1]
On April 15, 2020, Walker-Kimbrough was traded to the New York Liberty in a deal that sent Tina Charles to Washington.[4] Two days later, the Liberty traded her to the Phoenix Mercury in exchange for the draft rights of Jocelyn Willoughby.[5]
Walker-Kimbrough started the 2021 WNBA season with the Connecticut Sun, where she signed a hardship contract and played one game.[6]
Later in the 2021 season, she returned to the Washington Mystics.[7] She continued with the Mystics in 2022, 2023 and 2024.[1]
Overseas
[edit]Walker-Kimbrough started the 2017–18 season in Turkey with OGM Ormanspor. In January 2018, she joined MBK Ružomberok in Slovakia.[1] She played for Diósgyőri VTK in Hungary in 2018–19 and 2019–20, and then Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland 2020–21. For the 2021–22 season, she played for A.S. Ramat Hasharon in Israel.[1] She continued in Israel in 2022–23 with Maccabi Bnot Ashdod, where she averaged 20.0 points, 7.6 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 2.4 steals per game.[8] For the 2023–24 season, she played for Çankaya Üniversitesi S.K. in Turkey.[1] Walker-Kimbrough returned to Gorzów for the 2024-2025 season.[9]
Career statistics
[edit]GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
† | Denotes season(s) in which Walker-Kimbrough won a WNBA championship |
WNBA
[edit]Regular season
[edit]Stats current through end of 2024 season
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2017 | Washington | 27 | 8 | 12.4 | .371 | .333 | .854 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 4.4 |
2018 | Washington | 19 | 1 | 8.8 | .429 | .304 | 1.000 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 3.5 |
2019† | Washington | 34 | 1 | 17.1 | .432 | .310 | .930 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 6.7 |
2020 | Phoenix | 21 | 10 | 19.0 | .429 | .431 | .920 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 7.3 |
2021 | Connecticut | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | — | — | — | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
Washington | 16 | 13 | 21.6 | .513 | .320 | .857 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 7.4 | |
2022 | Washington | 35 | 3 | 20.1 | .402 | .347 | .902 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 6.9 |
2023 | Washington | 40 | 15 | 24.8 | .429 | .390 | .936 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 6.3 |
2024 | Washington | 40 | 2 | 22.1 | .415 | .330 | .806 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 7.5 |
Career | 8 years, 3 teams | 233 | 53 | 18.9 | .423 | .350 | .887 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 6.3 |
Playoffs
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2017 | Washington | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | .000 | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
2018 | Washington | 4 | 0 | 2.3 | 1.000 | — | — | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.5 |
2019† | Washington | 8 | 0 | 7.0 | .412 | .429 | 1.000 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.4 |
2020 | Phoenix | 2 | 1 | 19.0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 8.5 |
2022 | Washington | 2 | 0 | 20.5 | .556 | .500 | 1.000 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 7.5 |
2023 | Washington | 2 | 0 | 11.0 | .400 | .000 | .500 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 |
Career | 5 years, 2 teams | 21 | 1 | 8.2 | .489 | .500 | .667 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 3.0 |
College
[edit]Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2013–14 | Maryland | 35 | 0 | 17.3 | .478 | .397 | .766 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 9.3 |
2014–15 | Maryland | 37 | 37 | 29.5 | .513 | .340 | .804 | 5.3 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 13.3 |
2015–16 | Maryland | 35 | 34 | 31.3 | .543 | .545 | .809 | 6.0 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 19.5 |
2016–17 | Maryland | 35 | 34 | 29.2 | .526 | .450 | .816 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 18.8 |
Career | 142 | 105 | 26.9 | .520 | .459 | .803 | 4.5 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 15.2 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Shatori Walker-Kimbrough". usbasket.com. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
- ^ Shaffer, Jonas (April 13, 2017). "Maryland's Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Brionna Jones selected in top 10 of WNBA draft". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
- ^ "Shatori Walker-Kimbrough picked 6th overall in WNBA draft". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
- ^ "Mystics trade for former WNBA MVP Tina Charles". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
- ^ Metcalfe, Jeff. "Phoenix Mercury trade WNBA first-round draft pick for veteran Walker-Kimbrough". The Arizona Republic.
- ^ "Connecticut Signs Shatori Walker-Kimbrough – Connecticut Sun". sun.wnba.com. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
- ^ Copeland, Kareem (September 7, 2021). "Mystics guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough goes from WNBA to YMCA and back". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
- ^ "Hopewell's Shatori Walker-Kimbrough 'super thankful' to still call basketball her job". Beaver County Times.
- ^ Kozica, Szymon (October 22, 2024). "Shatori wraca do Gorzowa. „To dla mnie zaszczyt"". LCI - Nasza Lubuska (in Polish). Retrieved October 24, 2024.
- ^ "Shatori Walker-Kimbrough College Stats". Sports Reference.
- ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from WNBA.com and Basketball Reference
- Media related to Shatori Walker-Kimbrough at Wikimedia Commons
- 1995 births
- Living people
- All-American college women's basketball players
- American women's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Basketball players from Baltimore
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- Maryland Terrapins women's basketball players
- Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball)
- Sportspeople from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
- Phoenix Mercury players
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- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in basketball
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