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SEVEN CONSECUTIVE <strong>WNBA</strong> PLAYOFF APPEARANCES<br />
#8 TAMMY SUTTON-BROWN<br />
Position: Center<br />
<strong>WNBA</strong> Years: 11<br />
Height: 6-4<br />
Weight: 199<br />
Born: January 27, 1978 in<br />
Markham, Ontario, Canada<br />
High School: Markham District<br />
(Markham, Ontario, Canada)<br />
One of three returning Fever starters from the 2009, 2010 and<br />
2011 Fever playoff squads, Sutton-Brown enters the <strong>2012</strong> season<br />
as one of the league’s most athletic and ac<strong>com</strong>plished<br />
centers…she was selected to her second All-Star Game in 2007<br />
and ranks among the league’s all-time leaders in rebounds (13th,<br />
1,917) and blocks (5th, 528)...she has averaged 9.4 points and 5.1<br />
rebounds in five full seasons with Indiana…before joining the<br />
Fever, she spent her entire <strong>WNBA</strong> career in Charlotte, where she<br />
averaged 9.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.49 blocks while shooting<br />
48.5 percent from the field in six seasons...she has started all but<br />
24 out of 355 games in her career...she scored the 2,000th point of<br />
her <strong>WNBA</strong> career in 2007, and became one of six players in<br />
league history with 2,000 career points and 300 career blocked<br />
shots…reaching the 400-block plateau in 2009, Sutton-Brown<br />
became the fifth player in <strong>WNBA</strong> history with 3,000 points, 1,500<br />
rebounds and 400 blocks (Margo Dydek, Lisa Leslie, Lauren<br />
Jackson, Katie Smith) in 2010…she is one of seven players to<br />
eclipse 1,000 career points in a Fever uniform.<br />
Off the court, Sutton-Brown launched a children’s book in<br />
August 2011, featuring characters Cree and Scooter whose<br />
eventual series will feature travels around the world that reflect<br />
some of Sutton-Brown’s own globetrotting experiences.<br />
PRO - <strong>WNBA</strong><br />
2011: One of three Fever players to see action in all 34 games,<br />
she started in 26 averaging 5.5 points and 3.1 rebounds per<br />
contest…she scored in double figures three times including a<br />
season-high 15 points vs. Washington, 9/7…she had a career high<br />
five steals at Chicago, 9/4…she posted a season-high five blocked<br />
shots vs. Chicago, 6/4 and vs. Washington, 9/7.<br />
2010: Sutton-Brown started in all 34 games, averaging 8.1<br />
points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per contest…she scored a<br />
season-high 18 points in consecutive games of a West Coast road<br />
trip, at Phoenix, 8/8 and at Los Angeles, 8/10...she had 10 games<br />
with double-figure scoring…she posted a season-high 10<br />
rebounds in a win at Chicago, 7/6…she tied a career high with 10<br />
free throws made in an overtime loss to Minnesota, 8/22.<br />
2009: Sutton-Brown started in 25 of 27 games, averaging 9.9<br />
points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game…she won Eastern<br />
Conference Player of the Week honors for the week of 6/29-7/5,<br />
averaging 18 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.0 blocks…against<br />
Connecticut, 7/2, she had 14 points and season-highs of 14<br />
rebounds and five blocks…she scored a season-high 22 points on<br />
two occasions – vs. Atlanta, 7/5, and vs. Chicago, 7/15…she tied<br />
Ebony Hoffman for second on the team in double-doubles with<br />
three…she was third on the team in field goal percentage…Sutton-<br />
Brown was fifth in the <strong>WNBA</strong> in blocks per game.<br />
2008: Sutton-Brown averaged 11.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and<br />
1.7 blocks per game while starting all 33 games in which she<br />
College: Rutgers ‘01<br />
Drafted: By Charlotte, second<br />
round, 2001 <strong>WNBA</strong> Draft (18th<br />
overall)<br />
Acquired: Signed as a free agent,<br />
3/23/07<br />
appeared…she scored in double figures 20 times with three<br />
games of 20 points or more…she eclipsed her previous career<br />
high with 23 points in a 3OT loss at New York, 6/26…she later<br />
established a new career scoring high with 26 points on the final<br />
day of the regular season against Phoenix, 9/14…she posted a<br />
career-high 15 rebounds in the 3OT game at New York, 6/26, and<br />
had five double-doubles overall…she set a new single-season<br />
franchise record with 57 blocked shots.<br />
2007: Sutton-Brown finished the season averaging 12.0 points,<br />
5.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game…she started 33 of 34<br />
games and was selected to the <strong>WNBA</strong> All-Star Game for the first<br />
time in her career…she had multiple steals nine times in<br />
2007…through the first 18 games of the season, she was the<br />
league's best shooter from the field, having made 56.4 percent of<br />
her shots…she finished ninth in the league with a mark of 48.5<br />
percent…she scored 10+ points in 22 of 30 games, more than any<br />
other player on the team…she was fifth in the league with an<br />
average of 1.40 bpg…she had three or more blocked shots seven<br />
times…she played, but did not start in the Fever’s opening game<br />
only because of a return from Turkey one day earlier.<br />
2006: Sutton-Brown averaged 11.2 ppg along with a team-best<br />
5.9 rpg and 1.83 bpg, while shooting .488 percent from the field in<br />
30 games...she finished the season ranked second in the <strong>WNBA</strong><br />
in blocked shots...she rejected two or more shots 18 times...she<br />
blocked a season-high five shots against Indiana, 6/9...she tied her<br />
career high with 22 points on 8-14 FG vs. Minnesota, 7/25...she<br />
led the team in scoring on seven occasions and finished with 19<br />
games in double-figures...she posted six straight games in double<br />
figures from 7/14 to 7/22...she recorded three doubledoubles...she<br />
grabbed the 1,000th rebound of her career vs.<br />
Sacramento, 7/1...she collected a season-high 12 rebounds at<br />
Detroit, 7/19...she missed two games with a right knee bruise and<br />
two games due to lower back spasms.<br />
2005: She averaged 9.4 ppg, 5.3 rpg and 1.09 bpg while<br />
shooting 50.9 percent from the field...she led the team and finished<br />
ranked among <strong>WNBA</strong> league leaders in field goal percentage<br />
(sixth), blocks (11th) and rebounds (19th)...she recorded her 200th<br />
career block at San Antonio, 6/2, be<strong>com</strong>ing the 10th woman in<br />
<strong>WNBA</strong> history to reach that plateau...she played a career-high 40<br />
minutes vs. New York, 8/12.<br />
2004: She averaged 9.6 ppg, 6.2 rpg and 2.09 bpg and<br />
finished the season second in the league in blocks and 12th in<br />
rebounds...she grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds and recorded<br />
her 1,000th career point vs. Indiana, 6/26...she tied her career high<br />
with 22 points vs. Connecticut, 9/15...she posted a career-high and<br />
franchise-high six blocked shots vs. the Fever, 7/28...her 71<br />
blocked shots set a single-season franchise record.<br />
2003: She averaged 8.4 ppg, 5.9 rpg and 25.4 mpg...she led<br />
the team in scoring three times and in rebounding 16 times.<br />
Sutton Brown became just the fifth player in <strong>WNBA</strong> history with 3,000 points, 1,500 rebounds and 400 blocked shots.<br />
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