Sparks’ Nneka Ogwumike wins third Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award

If the grant wasn’t already named for Kim Perrot, the erstwhile Houston Comets’ inspiring defender who won 2 WNBA titles earlier she succumbed to crab successful 1999, the WNBA mightiness see naming its yearly sportsmanship grant for Nneka Ogwumike.

The Sparks’ guardant was voted the Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award victor for the 3rd consecutive season, the league announced Sunday. No different subordinate has earned the rubric — which is bestowed each play to a subordinate who exhibits “the ideals of sportsmanship connected the court, including ethical behavior, just play and integrity” — for 3 years running.

Ogwumike received 19 votes from a nationalist sheet of 49 sportswriters and broadcasters, finishing up of the Atlanta Dream’s Elizabeth Williams (eight) and the Washington Mystics’ Ariel Atkins and Phoenix Mercury’s Brianna Turner (four votes apiece).

Over the past 2 seasons, Ogwumike has spearheaded a groundbreaking caller corporate bargaining statement arsenic President of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association and besides has led overmuch of the league’s societal justness movement.

The six-time WNBA All-Star and erstwhile Most Valuable Player, Ogwumike amazingly was near disconnected the U.S. Olympic squad this summer. She besides was constricted by a genu wounded that outgo her 14 games, but inactive led L.A. with 14.5 points and 6.5 rebounds successful 18 games.

Previously besides the 2018 season-long Community Assist Award winner, Ogwumike is simply a five-time All-WNBA enactment and won the 2016 WNBA title with the Sparks successful 2016.

A True Leader.

Congratulations to @TheWNBPA President, @nnekaogwumike connected earning the 2021 Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award 👏

She is the ONLY subordinate to triumph this grant 3 years successful a enactment 🔥#CountIt pic.twitter.com/rDXpkyLzIA

— WNBA (@WNBA) October 3, 2021