Hamchétou Maïga-Ba (born 25 April 1978 in

Bamako Bamako ( bm, ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ ''Bàmakɔ̌'', ff, 𞤄𞤢𞤥𞤢𞤳𞤮 ''Bamako'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2009 population of 1,810,366 and an estimated 2022 population of 2.81 million. It is located on t ...

) is a Malian professional

women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college compet ...

player most recently with the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA. She is also a member of the

Mali women's national basketball team The Mali women's national basketball team is the nationally controlled basketball team representing Mali at world basketball competitions for women. The Malian squad had one FIBA Africa Championship for Women, continental championship, which came ...

At Old Dominion

Maïga was an All-American player her senior year at

Old Dominion University Old Dominion University (Old Dominion or ODU) is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary and is now one of the largest universities in Virginia with ...

, as well as a three time All-

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team member. Senior year, she led the team in scoring (13.7 ppg). She wins her first French championship title, which is also the first for her club. However, she did not participate in the French Cup final, as her contract was over, and she had to join her new WNBA franchise, the Minnesota Lynx. A free agent, she had signed with this franchise in February 2010, her former franchise of the Monarchs having announced its disappearance in November 2009.

Old Dominion University statistics

Source

WNBA and overseas career

Drafted with the 10th overall pick in the

2002 WNBA Draft The 2002 WNBA draft was the first to implement a lottery that arranges the order of the first four overall picks. The lottery gave four teams with the identically worst record of 10–22 from the 2001 season an equal chance to own the first o ...

, Maïga did not start a full season for a WNBA squad until the 2007 season. Starting all 34 games for Houston, Maïga averaged 9.1 points per game, along with 4 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.7 steals per game. she was # 25 During the 2008–09 WNBA offseason, she was playing in the

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with

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.Offseason 2008–09: Overseas Roster
/ref> During the 2009–2010 offseason, she is playing in France with Tarbes GB.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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Playoffs

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With Mali

Maïga was the captain of the Mali squad which won the

FIBA Africa Championship for Women 2007 The 2007 FIBA Africa Championship for Women was the 18th FIBA Africa Championship for Women, played under the rules of FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, and the FIBA Africa thereof. The tournament was hosted by Senegal from September ...

. By winning the tournament, Mali qualified for the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

. Maïga was the M.V.P. of the tournament.

References

External links

Profile
WNBA.com

WNBA.com
Notice of MVP status
fiba-africa.com 1978 births Living people Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Malian expatriate basketball people in the United States Expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic Houston Comets players Malian expatriates in the United States Malian women's basketball players Minnesota Lynx players Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball players Olympic basketball players of Mali Sportspeople from Bamako Sacramento Monarchs players Tarbes Gespe Bigorre players Power forwards (basketball) 21st-century Malian people {{Mali-basketball-bio-stub