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Wings' Liz Cambage requests trade

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Liz Cambage's time with the Dallas Wings could be coming to an end. The 6-foot-8 center has requested a trade, the team confirmed on Tuesday.

"Liz Cambage has communicated through her representation a desire to play elsewhere in the WNBA during the 2019 season," team president and CEO Greg Bibb said in a statement. "While Liz is currently under contract with the Dallas Wings, we will work to resolve this issue while keeping the interest of our organization the priority."

Cambage, an Australian national, returned stateside for the 2018 season after a four-year hiatus, stuffing the stat sheet with 23 points, 9.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 1.7 blocks per game.

On July 17 last year, she scored a WNBA single-game record 53 points against the New York Liberty, one of her six outings with 30-plus points on the season. Despite the Wings finishing with a 15-19 record, Cambage placed second in 2018 MVP voting behind Seattle Storm forward Breanna Stewart.

Cambage played for the Dallas Wings - previously the Tulsa Shock - in 2011 and 2013. Due to better compensation overseas, national team commitments, a 2014 Achilles injury, and "an existential crisis," as she described it to Bleacher Report's Mirin Fader, Cambage didn't play in the WNBA from 2014 to 2017.

It took years of recruiting from then-Wings head coach Fred Williams to get Cambage to rejoin the team this past season. However, the longtime WNBA coach was fired midway through the 2018 campaign. Fueling the rumor mill around Cambage, Williams was announced as an assistant under first-year Los Angeles Sparks head coach Derek Fisher earlier Tuesday.

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