Take my story back': How Layshia Clarendon earned redemption - Los Angeles Times

After 11 years in the WNBA, one of the league’s pioneers is calling it a career.

Los Angeles Sparks guard Layshia Clarendon is retiring from basketball, they announced in a Friday afternoon Instagram post. Clarendon, 33, made history in 2020 by coming out as non-binary—the first WNBA player to do so.

“The lesson I’ve been learning this last year is that everything comes to an end,” Clarendon—who uses he/him, she/her and they/them pronouns—wrote. “The time has come for my basketball career to end. I am deeply at peace with this choice as my mind, body, and spirit know unequivocally that it’s time to move on.