A little almost college ball from Mechelle:

Bone, Diggins, Williams and Massengale … to borrow from the old WNBA inaugural-season catchphrase: "They've got next."

Will we see them in the pro league one day? We might. Will they be wearing Team USA jerseys at some future Olympics? They may be.

For now, though, they are coming off a summer in which they had great experiences and won gold medals. They are in the USA Basketball pipeline, having already worn the red, white and blue.
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We take this opportunity to tell you more about these four, using their stories to represent the upcoming generation of women's basketball players: the ones born -- take a deep breath, "older" folks -- in the 1990s.