11.   Jan Lowrey faces a mixture of emotions as she gets ready to coach her first professional basketball game.

12.   Lieberman-Cline, who plays for Phoenix, will be the first female basketball Hall of Famer ever to play professionally.

13.   McWilliams attended Tulane University on the first basketball scholarship ever awarded by the school, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology.

14.   Next year, her first professional basketball game could be at Mercer Arena as a member of the Seattle Reign.

15.   Prosser found out in his first basketball game as a head coach.

16.   Rhodes and Carr participated in their first real basketball workouts Wednesday, and both are lobbying for a quick return to the roster, perhaps as soon as tonight.

17.   Soon Carr got his first basketball and took it with him everywhere.

18.   Sprewell is his first basketball client.

19.   This weekend, his first basketball camp as an NBA player opens in Seattle.

20.   Was it when Nike sold its first basketball shoe?