WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO WHOEVER HAS WRITTEN THIS MESSAGE, PLEASE GO
AND CHECK YOUR RECORDS STRAIGHT ABOUT WHY SALPY DIDNT JOIN THE
WNBA!!!!!!!

NO MY SWEET DARLING WHOEVER YOU ARE...IT WASNT BECAUSE SHE COULDNT
FINISH THE TOUGH TRY OUTS! YES THEY WERE TOUGH, BUT SHE FINISHED THEM
BIIIIGG TIME...

THE REASON FOR HER NOT JOINING???? ANY REAL FAN OF SALPY WHO WANTS TO
KNOW WHY EMAIL ME... I CANNOT MENTION IT HERE BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME
POLITICS INVOLVED!

AND PLEAAAAAAAASE FOR GOD'S SAKES, DO NOT WRITE JUST FOR THE SAKE OF
WRITING...GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!

AS FOR YOU ABIR OR WHATEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF, PLEASE LEARN SOME
ENGLISH BEFORE YOU WRITE AND BESIDES WE ARE NOT HERE FOR YOUR LITTLE
CHILDLISH GAMES!



--- In lebanesebasketball@yahoogroups.com, lebanesebasketball
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> 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.