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Mwadi Mabika (born July 27, 1976) is a retired Congolese-American
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player. She was an All-Star in the
Women's National Basketball Association The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is an American professional basketball league. It is composed of twelve teams, all based in the United States. The league was founded on April 22, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the Natio ...
(WNBA). She studied
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and
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at the Massamba School in Kinshasa. She was brought to the United States by
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star and fellow Zairean
Dikembe Mutombo Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo (born June 25, 1966) is a Congolese-American former professional basketball player. Mutombo played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Outside basketball, he has becom ...
, who personally appealed to the government officials in Zaire for permission to bring her to the U.S. Mabika represented Zaire at the
1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
. For six seasons prior to joining the WNBA, Mabika played for the Tourbillon club in
Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...
. She played for the
Los Angeles Sparks The Los Angeles Sparks (LA Sparks) are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Sparks compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The team was foun ...
during the WNBA's inaugural season in 1997. Mabika helped guide the Sparks to consecutive championships in 2001 and 2002. She won a silver medal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the
2003 All-Africa Games The 8th All Africa Games were 5–17 October 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria. 53 countries participated in 23 sports. The main venue was the newly constructed Abuja Stadium. The organizing committee was headed by Nigerian Amos Adamu. Venues * Moshood ...
. In December 2005, she again represent the DR Congo's women's national basketball team - known as Simba Ladies - at the 2005 FIBA Africa Championship for Women. In February 2008, she signed a
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contract with the Houston Comets. Mabika became a U.S. citizen in 2011.


Career statistics


Regular season

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
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, 21 , , 1 , , 15.5 , , .390 , , .184 , , .542 , , 2.6 , , 1.0 , , 1.1 , , 0.3 , , 1.3 , , 6.0 , - , style="text-align:left;", 1998 , style="text-align:left;",
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, 29 , , 23 , , 24.5 , , .339 , , .308 , , .698 , , 4.4 , , 1.5 , , 1.0 , , 0.3 , , 1.3 , , 8.2 , - , style="text-align:left;",
1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
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, 32 , , 28 , , 29.3 , , .372 , , .281 , , .718 , , 4.8 , , 3.5 , , 1.4 , , 0.5 , , 1.8 , , 10.8 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
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, 32 , , 32 , , 29.4 , , .388 , , .384 , , .820 , , 5.6 , , 3.1 , , 1.8 , , 0.6 , , 1.6 , , 12.3 , - , style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;",
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
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, 28 , , 24 , , 29.6 , , .387 , , .382 , , .861 , , 4.6 , , 3.1 , , 1.4 , , 0.4 , , 1.6 , , 11.2 , - , style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;",
2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
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, 32 , , 32 , , 32.8 , , .423 , , .366 , , .839 , , 5.2 , , 2.9 , , 1.2 , , 0.3 , , 1.9 , , 16.8 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
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, 32 , , 30 , , 32.6 , , .407 , , .264 , , .866 , , 4.4 , , 2.6 , , 0.9 , , 0.6 , , 2.3 , , 13.8 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
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, 31 , , 31 , , 31.1 , , .415 , , .404 , , .824 , , 3.9 , , 2.4 , , 1.2 , , 0.1 , , 1.6 , , 14.4 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
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, 17 , , 14 , , 21.6 , , .320 , , .224 , , .500 , , 1.6 , , 1.7 , , 0.9 , , 0.0 , , 0.8 , , 5.8 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
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Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 32 , , 32 , , 21.2 , , .377 , , .333 , , .889 , , 2.0 , , 1.5 , , 0.6 , , 0.2 , , 1.2 , , 8.5 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
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Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 33 , , 23 , , 23.1 , , .364 , , .310 , , .754 , , 3.8 , , 2.2 , , 0.9 , , 0.1 , , 2.2 , , 8.1 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
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, 20 , , 11 , , 16.4 , , .303 , , .274 , , .714 , , 1.9 , , 0.9 , , 0.5 , , 0.0 , , 0.6 , , 4.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", Career , style="text-align:left;", 12 years, 2 teams , 339 , , 281 , , 26.3 , , .385 , , .327 , , .799 , , 3.9 , , 2.3 , , 1.1 , , 0.2 , , 1.6 , , 10.5


Playoffs

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
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Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 4 , , 4 , , 31.8 , , .378 , , .176 , , .000 , , 4.5 , , 2.8 , , 3.3 , , 0.3 , , 2.5 , , 9.3 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
, style="text-align:left;",
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 4 , , 4 , , 34.0 , , .543 , , .531 , , .750 , , 5.3 , , 1.0 , , 1.5 , , 1.0 , , 1.3 , , 17.5 , - , style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;",
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
† , style="text-align:left;",
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 7 , , 7 , , 33.0 , , .318 , , .250 , , .786 , , 6.6 , , 2.4 , , 1.0 , , 0.9 , , 1.4 , , 9.0 , - , style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;",
2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
† , style="text-align:left;",
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 6 , , 6 , , 35.3 , , .378 , , .320 , , .692 , , 6.8 , , 4.2 , , 1.3 , , 0.2 , , 1.7 , , 14.7 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
, style="text-align:left;",
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 9 , , 9 , , 38.2 , , .438 , , .353 , , .846 , , 5.6 , , 2.3 , , 1.6 , , 0.2 , , 2.2 , , 14.3 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
, style="text-align:left;",
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 3 , , 3 , , 35.7 , , .370 , , .350 , , .938 , , 2.7 , , 3.3 , , 2.3 , , 0.0 , , 2.0 , , 18.7 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
, style="text-align:left;",
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 1 , , 1 , , 11.0 , , .250 , , .000 , , .000 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 2.0 , , 2.0 , - , style="text-align:left;",
2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
, style="text-align:left;",
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...
, 5 , , 4 , , 28.0 , , .388 , , .433 , , .706 , , 4.0 , , 2.0 , , 1.4 , , 0.0 , , 1.6 , , 15.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", Career , style="text-align:left;", 8 years, 1 team , 39 , , 38 , , 33.5 , , .400 , , .350 , , .769 , , 5.2 , , 2.5 , , 1.6 , , 0.4 , , 1.8 , , 13.4


References


External links


Basketball-reference page on Mabika




{{DEFAULTSORT:Mabika, Mwadi 1976 births Living people Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo women's basketball players Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate basketball people in the United States Houston Comets players Los Angeles Sparks players Basketball players from Kinshasa Shooting guards Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriates in the United States Women's National Basketball Association All-Stars African Games silver medalists for DR Congo African Games medalists in basketball Undrafted Women's National Basketball Association players Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games