The maddening promise of Diamond DeShields

Posted Sep 11, 2019
It was Diamond DeShields who persuaded her mother to move to Norcross, Georgia so she could attend Norcross High School. It was DeShields who engineered a historic recruiting class to UNC, only to leave a year later to transfer to Tennessee. It was DeShields who left Tennessee, too. Now, though, as a rising WNBA star, DeShields has very little control. (ESPN.com)

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