No. 44–New York Liberty | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Shooting guard / small forward | ||||||||||||||
League | WNBA | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | October 29, 1993||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 166 lb (75 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | Smyrna (Smyrna, Delaware) | ||||||||||||||
College | Rutgers (2011–2015) | ||||||||||||||
WNBA draft | 2015: 2nd round, 17th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
Selected by the Chicago Sky | |||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | Chicago Sky | ||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | Perth Lynx | ||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Bendigo Spirit | ||||||||||||||
2018 | Connecticut Sun | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Indiana Fever | ||||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Elitzur Holon | ||||||||||||||
2020 | Atlanta Dream | ||||||||||||||
2020–2022 | Elitzur Ramla | ||||||||||||||
2021–present | New York Liberty | ||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Betnijah Laney-Hamilton (born October 29, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for Rutgers University. [1]
Laney-Hamilton started playing basketball at 10 years old, largely due to her mother having played basketball competitively. Laney-Hamilton is the daughter of Yolanda Laney, [2] who played for Cheyney State and was also coached by C. Vivian Stringer. Her closest friends are Aiyannah Peal and Sydni Epps. [3]
Laney-Hamilton attended Smyrna High School in Smyrna, Delaware where she averaged 23.7 points, 10 rebounds, 4.4 steals, 4.3 assists and 1.2 blocks per game as a senior and was named a McDonald's All-American. [4]
In her four-year career at Rutgers, Laney-Hamilton played 129 games with 107 starts, and averaged 10.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.2 steals per game. [4]
Year | Team | GP | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2011–12 | Rutgers | 32 | 20.9 | .378 | .278 | .656 | 3.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 6.0 |
2012–13 | Rutgers | 30 | 31.1 | .364 | .190 | .667 | 5.0 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 9.7 |
2013–14 | Rutgers | 35 | 33.8 | .435 | .300 | .747 | 8.5 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 11.8 |
2014–15 | Rutgers | 32 | 36.2 | .486 | .395 | .704 | 10.7 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 15.8 |
Career | 129 | 30.6 | 42.6 | 28.9 | 69.9 | 7.1 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 10.9 |
Source: Yahoo! Sports
On April 16, 2015, Laney-Hamilton was selected by the Chicago Sky with the 17th overall pick in the 2015 WNBA draft. [5] In her rookie season playing for the Sky, Laney-Hamilton averaged 2.8 points and 2.1 rebounds in 33 games (32 regular season and one playoff). [6]
On July 16, 2015, Laney-Hamilton signed with the Perth Lynx for the 2015–16 WNBL season. [7] On November 11, 2015, she was named in the WNBL's Team of the Week for Round 5 after recording 12 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists against the Adelaide Lightning on November 8. [8] On January 13, 2016, she earned Team of the Week honors for a second time. [9] On February 16, she was named WNBL Player of the Month for January. [10] She led the Lynx to a second place regular season finish with a 16–8 win–loss record, and went on to score a game-high 23 points in the team's semi-final win over the first-seeded Townsville Fire. [11] With the win, the Lynx advanced to the WNBL grand final for the first time since 1999. [12] There they were outclassed by the defending champion Townsville (who made it to the grand final via the preliminary final), losing the best-of-three series 2–0. Laney appeared in all 27 games for the Lynx in 2015–16, averaging 15.2 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.0 steals per game.
Laney-Hamilton returned to the Chicago Sky for the 2016 WNBA season. On June 8, she was ruled out for the rest of the season after tearing her left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). The injury occurred during the second quarter of the Sky's June 3 game against the Washington Mystics. [13]
On February 7, 2018, Laney-Hamilton signed a training camp deal with the Connecticut Sun. [14]
Laney-Hamilton had a breakout season in 2020 with the Atlanta Dream; she was named to the WNBA All-Defensive Team [15] and won the Most Improved Player Award. [16] In 2021 she signed with the New York Liberty. [17]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2015 | Chicago | 32 | 2 | 12.8 | .394 | .000 | .696 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 2.9 |
2016 | Chicago | 8 | 1 | 5.3 | .167 | .000 | 1.000 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
2018 | Connecticut | 29 | 0 | 9.3 | .471 | .111 | .909 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 2.7 |
2019 | Indiana | 34 | 27 | 25.8 | .362 | .303 | .581 | 4.2 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 5.6 |
2020 | Atlanta | 22 | 22 | 33.5 | .481 | .405 | .827 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 3.0 | 17.2 |
2021 | New York | 32 | 32 | 33.4 | .451 | .312 | .787 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 3.7 | 16.8 |
2022 | New York | 9 | 6 | 28.3 | .422 | .379 | .875 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.7 | 11.2 |
2023 | New York | 40 | 40 | 30.0 | .499 | .392 | .791 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 12.8 |
Career | 8 years, 5 teams | 206 | 130 | 23.6 | .450 | .349 | .782 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 9.2 |
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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2015 | Chicago | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
2021 | New York | 1 | 1 | 37.0 | .455 | .429 | .667 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 25.0 |
2022 | New York | 3 | 3 | 24.3 | .419 | .250 | .875 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 11.3 |
2023 | New York | 10 | 10 | 36.1 | .473 | .365 | .733 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 15.2 |
Career | 4 years, 2 teams | 15 | 14 | 31.5 | .462 | .365 | .769 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 14.1 |
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