| | Associated Press
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Rockers guard Michelle Edwards, one
of the team's first players, was traded Saturday to the Seattle
Storm for the rights to Nina Bjedov.
Bjedov, a 6-foot-6 center, is not playing in the WNBA this
season but is expected to return to the league in 2001.
Edwards, who was assigned to the Rockers on Jan. 22, 1997,
played 74 games with Cleveland, averaging 8.3 points, 2.6 rebounds
and 3.1 assists. This season she has averaged 2.7 points in 5.7
minutes of play in two games.
Bjedov has played one season in the WNBA, spending the 1999
season with the L.A. Sparks as Lisa Leslie's backup. She averaged
4.5 points and 2.6 rebounds for the Sparks.
Bjedov, a native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, decided to sit out
this season after playing this winter in Brazil.
Rockers head coach Dan Hughes said it was a hard decision to
trade Edwards.
"Michelle Edwards has meant a lot to this franchise both on the
court and off," he said. "She has been with the team since the
beginning. We owe her the opportunity to be somewhere where she
will play." | |
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