In Australia, Dandedong repeat as WNBL champions in a defense-oriented game.

LJ, who sat out the WNBL season to rehab her ankle, will return to Australia in fall '05 (spring and summer '05, if you are Australian) after the WNBA season, rather than playing in Europe. Her Australian team show delight and relief.

The 2003 WNBA MVP complains about lack of Australian corporate sponsorships: "the dollars just aren't there." She also describes rehab-prompted fears: "I'd like to play until I was 40, but in six or seven years it could be all over." (Anne Donovan, on the other hand, would "love to sign her to a 20-year deal.")

Jackson returns to Seattle today.