Elizabeth Folake Cambage was born on 18 August 1991 and is an Australian professional basketball player for the Maccabi Bnot Ashdod of the Israeli Female Basketball Premier League.
27 Facts About Liz Cambage
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Liz Cambage played for the Australia national team, the Opals, between 2009 and 2021, winning a gold medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, silver in the 2018 World Cup, and bronze in the 2012 Olympics.
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Liz Cambage was born on 18 August 1991 in London to a Nigerian father and Australian mother.
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Liz Cambage's parents separated when Cambage was three months old and she moved to Australia with her mother.
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Liz Cambage started playing basketball at her mother's suggestion when she was 10 as a way to make friends.
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Liz Cambage's agent released a statement saying she was exhausted after playing for the national team.
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Liz Cambage returned to play for the Shock for the 2013 season, but did not return to the WNBA for five years after.
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In June 2012, Liz Cambage signed with Zheijang Chouzhou basketball club in China, reportedly for a salary of AUS$400,000, which made her one of the highest-paid female basketballers in the world.
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Yet in an article in the Australian newspaper The Age published on 8 March 2019, Liz Cambage bemoaned being poorly compensated and unable to meet her mortgage payments, noting that she had not been paid since September 2018 after an injury prevented her from playing in China.
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In February 2018, Liz Cambage signed a multiyear contract with the Dallas Wings.
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On 17 July 2018, in a game against the New York Liberty, Liz Cambage scored a WNBA record 53 points.
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Liz Cambage was voted into the 2018 WNBA All-Star Game, making it her second all-star appearance.
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On 22 January 2019, Liz Cambage requested a trade from the Wings.
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On July 5,2020, the team announced that Liz Cambage would sit out the 2020 WNBA season due to health concerns and pre-existing risk factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic after an evaluation by the team doctor.
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Liz Cambage responded with a post on Instagram, calling out Connecticut Sun coach Curt Miller, calling him a "little white man".
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Liz Cambage signed with the Los Angeles Sparks on February 15,2022.
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Three weeks later, on August 15,2022, Liz Cambage announced she was stepping away from the WNBA.
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On March 3,2023, it was officially announced that Australian professional basketball player Liz Cambage had signed a contract with the Israeli women's basketball club Maccabi Bnot Ashdod.
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In 2009, Liz Cambage was a member of the Australian junior women's national team that won a gold medal at the Oceania World Qualification series, and a silver medal at the William Jones Cup in Taiwan.
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Liz Cambage's first call up to the senior national side was in 2008, and she had her first cap for the Australian Opals in 2009 in a test series against China, went she played in the third game in the series.
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Liz Cambage was a member of the national team again in 2010.
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Liz Cambage scored 20 points in the game against Spain.
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Liz Cambage was seen as a key component if Australia was to beat the United States in London.
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Liz Cambage was part of the Australian team that won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Liz Cambage was named to the national team for the Tokyo Olympics, but withdrew from the team in July 2021, less than two weeks before the tournament.
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In May 2022, reports alleged that Liz Cambage had racially taunted players on the Nigerian team during a pre-Olympics training game, calling the players "monkeys" and telling the Nigerian players to "Go back to your Third World country".
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Liz Cambage was later found to have elbowed and slapped players on the Nigerian team, causing the training game to be called off.