With families and nannies helping, the members of the USA Women's basketball team have their children in attendance in Paris.
Chelsea Gray and her wife have a baby boy. Britney Stewart will be hosting a birthday party for Stewart’s daughter Ruby, who turns 3 on Friday. Stewart also has a baby boy Theo with her wife, retired Spanish basketball player Marta Xargay.
Diana Taurasi and wife — former Australian Olympian and WNBA All-Star Penny Taylor — have two children, a boy and and girl. Napheesa Collier brought her two-year-old daughter, Mila Bazzel.
Two-time gold medalist Brittney Griner prefers to be called "Pops" as the newest member coming into parenthood with her wife giving birth to a boy just a couple weeks before the team headed to Europe.
For U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve, this is part of basketball’s evolution of supporting women on and off the court. The coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx has seen that league and players negotiate for better policies helping players with maternity leave and child care.
“We’re evolving as a society I think in terms of what’s acceptable, what women can do, and women are obviously showing us that we can be anything,” Reeve said. “And we do. The harder it is, the more women are stepping up and doing it.”
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