Basketball star Kia Nurse already carving out a broadcasting career at just 25

Canada's Kia Nurse backs in against a Senegal player during a game at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Kia Nurse isn’t just one of Canada’s finest female basketball players, she’s becoming a popular voice of the game as well.

Nurse is carving out her space in a field that remains overwhelmingly male, and she’s just 25. She got her start when she was asked to join the broadcast team for March Madness in 2019. “Kia’s very good. And what she does is she’s not trying to be a broadcaster. She’s talking basketball. And she comes across really naturally,” said longtime Raptors broadcaster Leo Rautins. “ John Saunders used to tell me ‘It should be like you and I are talking hoops on a couch where people can happen to hear the conversation.’ And that’s the way Kia is.“She’s not trying to impress you with her knowledge. She’s sharing her knowledge. And she enjoys it. She’s very good at it.

“The great thing about our broadcast is obviously, Kate mentioned it early in the pre-game, was we were excited to be there to make history and to allow young women to see representation of themselves on television in these roles,” Nurse said. “But at the same time, we were there to do a job, and we knew we were good at our jobs, and that’s all we really had to go out there and do.”Nurse isn’t sure whether fulltime broadcasting is in her long-term future.

Nurse, a six-foot guard, was traded to the Phoenix Mercury in a three-team deal in February. She was the Liberty’s 10th overall selection in the 2018 WNBA Draft, and averaged 11.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game during her three-year tenure with New York.The WNBA has prided itself for its work off the court as well, so it was no surprise that during a summer of racial unrest across the U.S.

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