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Tina Thompson’s name has never blazed at the top of the women’s basketball marquee.

She should blame the company she keeps.

In Houston, it was Cynthia Cooper and Sheryl Swoopes. On the U.S. Olympic team it was Lisa Leslie, a pecking order that carried over to the Los Angeles Sparks last year. Even this season, the 14th year of Thompson’s WNBA career, Candace Parker played the starring role in Los Angeles.

She’s never been an attention-seeker, a spotlight grabber. When she gets called for interviews, she admits thinking, “Nah, c’mon, not me.”

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