Just to second your input about Salpy having tried for the WNBA,
actually yes, she did. Please check in this regard the bio and two
media articles that appeared in a Sagesse Club website some time back
and is still (thankfully) possible to browse. The pages are:

http://members.tripod.com/Sagesse_club/Salpy2.html
http://members.tripod.com/Sagesse_club/article1.html
http://members.tripod.com/Sagesse_club/article2.html

The 3rd is the most interesting about her WNBA try-out experience.
The WNBA team was called the "Detroit Shock" and the biggest appeal
there for somebody like Salpy was the presence of a sizable Lebanese
and Arab-American population in the area insuring a bigger audience
for the club's games in Michigan.

Of course the WNBA is a fiercely and competitively run league and the
simple fact that someone tries out for it doesn't really mean she
will be taken. Many try out, but a few are picked. The same article
talks for example about the 2.18m 101 kilograms player, the Polish
Malgorzata Dydek. Salpy on the other hand is just 1.72m. I don't
intend to say that Salpy never did stand a chance, I am sure she very
well did, but it was a stiff uphill competition she couldn't follow
till the end.

In any case WNBA's loss was Lebanon's gain. For after that specific
tryout which happened after Tunis, she decided to return to Lebanon
and had a good couple of seasons with Sagesse (although she was
heavily injured on the Kahraba court). Yet she very well recovered
and was "theeee" best Lebanese player by far and truly unique in our
national women basketball games here. The popular saying went that in
the games Lebanon was playing with 4 naturalized foreigner and Salpy
being the only one of true Lebanese origin!!! (Note that the other
main four were at the time naturalized players by government decree
or by marriage).

In any case, I repeat that the absolute priority now is not club
level basketball, or this or that player, but the relaunching of a
national women's basketball team with a dedicated coach of stature,
probably of Lebanese origin, to follow the example of coach Ghassan
Sarklis and coach Rizcallah Zaloom. This team has to have regular
training sessions, lengthy sports camps and international meetings
(official and friendly). And of course Salpy will probably remian one
of its pillars, though it is for the coach to decide and have the
final say.