Via Stever, an Australian ode to "the new Lauren Jackson."

LJ's Australian league team, the Canberra Capitals, suffered when she didn't play last year, missing the playoffs and seeing attendance decline. Canberra hoops exec Mark Cartwright says not to worry: "the same thing happened with Chicago when Michael Jordan was injured for a season and Manchester United without David Beckham."

Carrie Graf, who will coach LJ in Canberra, speaks out on her departure from Phoenix: "When you finish a season in the WNBA and your contract doesn't get renewed that's not the best fun, but it's the coaching game... Fortunately for me I'd already chosen to take the Caps job and it couldn't have worked out better to come back here and have something good come out of something not so good."