Danielle Robinson (born May 10, 1989) is an American

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executive, coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the

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of the

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(WNBA). She played

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. She was selected sixth overall in the 2011 WNBA draft by the San Antonio Silver Stars. She played for 12 seasons in the WNBA with the Silver Stars (later known as the Stars, and since 2018, the

Las Vegas Aces The Las Vegas Aces are an American professional basketball team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Aces compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference. The team plays its home game ...

Atlanta Dream The Atlanta Dream are an American professional basketball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Dream compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team was founded for the ...

Indiana Fever The Indiana Fever are an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis. The Fever compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) a member of the Eastern Conference (WNBA), Eastern Conference. The team was founded for ...

Minnesota Lynx The Minnesota Lynx are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis. The Lynx compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference (WNBA), Western Conference. The team won the WNBA ...

, and

Phoenix Mercury The Phoenix Mercury are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Mercury compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference. One of eight original franchises, it wa ...

College statistics

Source

USA Basketball

Robinson was named a member of the team representing the US at the 2009 World University Games held in

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. The team won all seven games to earn the gold medal. Robinson averaged 4.6 points per game.

Professional career

WNBA

Robinson was selected the first round of the 2011 WNBA draft (6th overall) by the San Antonio Silver Stars.http://www.wnba.com draft2011/draft_board.html 2011 WNBA Draft board Ogunbuwale Robinson 20190822

Robinson quickly established herself as perhaps the quickest athlete in the WNBA. Robinson made the Western Conference All-Star Team in her third season in the league, and led the league in assists per game, earning the WNBA Peak Performer award for assists. In 2015, Robinson re-signed with San Antonio in free agency. In 2016, Robinson was sidelined for the whole season due to an achilles injury. In 2017, Robinson was traded to the

in exchange for Isabelle Harrison and a 2017 first round pick. On March 6, 2018, Robinson was traded along with a 2nd round pick in 2019, to the Minnesota Lynx, for the 12th pick in the 2018 WNBA draft. After spending two seasons with the

, Robinson was traded on January 13, 2023, to the

in exchange for Kristy Wallace. On January 1, 2025, Robinson announced her retirement from professional basketball.

Europe

Robinson began her European career with Tarsus Belediye in

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. She played for the team during the 2012–13 season in both the

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and the EuroLeague Women. The following year, she joined ZVVZ USK Prague. She came to the team late in the 2013–14 season, but helped them to the Final Eight in that year's EuroLeague Women. She returned to ZVVZ USK Prague for the 2014-15 season. She helped take the team to its first EuroLeague title, scoring 24 points on 11-of-19 shooting in the Final against the heavily favored

UMMC Ekaterinburg BC Ekaterinburg () is a Russian professional women's basketball team based in Yekaterinburg competing in the Russian Premier League, and until February 2022 in FIBA Europe's EuroLeague Women. Founded in 1938 as Zenit Sverdlovsk, the club had its ...

Executive and coaching career

On January 2, 2025, just one day after announcing her retirement from professional basketball, Robinson was named the Manager of Basketball Integration and Scout Support for the

. On April 24, The Sparks announced her promotion to assistant coach, a role she would hold in addition to her other responsibilities.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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Las Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...

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Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

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Postseason

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Danielle 1989 births Living people All-American college women's basketball players American expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic American expatriate basketball people in Turkey American women's basketball players Atlanta Dream players Basketball players from San Jose, California Indiana Fever players Las Vegas Aces players LGBTQ basketball players LGBTQ people from California American lesbian sportswomen Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi women's basketball players Minnesota Lynx players Oklahoma Sooners women's basketball players Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball) Phoenix Mercury players Point guards San Antonio Silver Stars draft picks San Antonio Stars players FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States Summer World University Games medalists in basketball WNBA All-Stars Archbishop Mitty High School alumni