Lindsay Whalen didn’t want to come to Connecticut. Her parents didn’t want her to come to Connecticut.
Whalen had grown up in Hutchinson, Minnesota. She was a star at the University of Minnesota, an hour from her hometown.
She would have preferred to stay there, in her comfort zone, playing for the Minnesota Lynx. But when her name was called at No. 4 in the 2004 WNBA draft, she was – as expected – headed to play for the Connecticut Sun.
