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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Rebecca Lobo says she wasn't aware of the impact, until she began seeing children wearing replicas of her jersey. The former UConn and WNBA star was in Springfield on Thursday signing some of those in advance of her enshrinement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Now an ESPN analyst, the 43-year-old mother of four says it was after the 1996 Olympics that she first noticed her name on the back of someone else's shirt.

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