There was one basket at Diamond Park. If you wanted on the court, you had to play. Faatimah was 12, 5'5", and not leaving. Two decades later, she's still not leaving — she's building what she would have needed and making sure other women have it.

The Bay Area basketball player and founder of the Women's Premier Basketball Association on what basketball gave her and why she's building a development league giving women a place to keep playing and a path toward the WNBA and international leagues.

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