Shatori Walker-Kimbrough

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Shatori Walker-Kimbrough

| image = Shatori Walker-Kimbrough 2024 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Walker-Kimbrough with the Washington Mystics in 2024

| league = WNBA

| team = Atlanta Dream

| number = 32

| position = Shooting guard

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 9

| weight_lbs = 140

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1995|05|18|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| high_school = Hopewell (Aliquippa, Pennsylvania)

| college = Maryland (2013–2017)

| draft_league = WNBA

| draft_year = 2017

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 6

| draft_team = Washington Mystics

| career_start = 2017

| career_end =

| years1 = {{WNBA Year|2017}}–{{WNBA Year|2019}}

| team1 = Washington Mystics

| years2 = 2017

| team2 = OGM Ormanspor

| years3 = 2018

| team3 = MBK Ružomberok

| years4 = 2018–2020

| team4 = Diósgyőri VTK

| years5 = {{WNBA Year|2020}}

| team5 = Phoenix Mercury

| years6 = 2020–2021

| team6 = Gorzów Wielkopolski

| years7 = {{WNBA Year|2021}}

| team7 = Connecticut Sun

| years8 = {{WNBA Year|2021}}–{{WNBA Year|2024}}

| team8 = Washington Mystics

| years9 = 2021–2022

| team9 = A.S. Ramat Hasharon

| years10 = 2022–2023

| team10 = Maccabi Bnot Ashdod

| years11 = 2023–2024

| team11 = Çankaya Üniversitesi S.K.

| years12 = 2024–2025

| team12 = Gorzów Wielkopolski

| years13 = {{WNBA Year|2025}}–present

| team13 = Atlanta Dream

| highlights =

Israeli Cup winner (2023)
WNBA champion (2019)
WNBA All-Rookie Team (2017)
2x Third-team All-American – AP (2016, 2017)
2x All-American – USBWA (2016, 2017)
Big Ten Tournament MOP (2016)
3× First-team All-Big Ten (2015–2017)
2× Big Ten All-Defensive Team (2016, 2017)

| wnba_profile = shatori-walker-kimbrough

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry|the {{bkw|USA}}}}

}}

Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (born May 18, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and was drafted by the Washington Mystics with the sixth overall pick in the 2017 WNBA draft.

College career

Walker-Kimbrough played four years of college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins between 2013 and 2017. She earned first-team All-Big Ten as a sophomore, junior and senior, and Big Ten All-Defensive Team as a junior and senior.{{cite web|url=https://basketball.usbasket.com/player/Shatori-Walker-Kimbrough/306689?Women=1|title=Shatori Walker-Kimbrough|work=usbasket.com|access-date=June 26, 2024|url-access=subscription}}

Professional career

=WNBA=

Walker-Kimbrough was drafted with the sixth overall pick in the 2017 WNBA draft by the Washington Mystics.{{cite news |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/tracking-the-terps/bs-sp-wnba-draft-terps-0414-20170413-story.html |title=Maryland's Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Brionna Jones selected in top 10 of WNBA draft |last=Shaffer |first=Jonas |date=April 13, 2017 |work=The Baltimore Sun |accessdate=May 7, 2017 |archive-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415081958/https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/tracking-the-terps/bs-sp-wnba-draft-terps-0414-20170413-story.html |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/other-sports/2017/04/13/Shatori-Walker-Kimbrough-WNBA-draft-Washington-Mystics/stories/201704130204 |title=Shatori Walker-Kimbrough picked 6th overall in WNBA draft |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette}} She played her first three WNBA seasons with the Mystics.

On April 15, 2020, Walker-Kimbrough was traded to the New York Liberty in a deal that sent Tina Charles to Washington.{{Cite news |title=Mystics trade for former WNBA MVP Tina Charles |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/04/15/mystics-trade-for-tina-charles/ |access-date=May 26, 2021 |issn=0190-8286}} Two days later, the Liberty traded her to the Phoenix Mercury in exchange for the draft rights of Jocelyn Willoughby.{{Cite web |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/wnba/mercury/2020/04/17/mercury-pick-virginia-wing-jocelyn-willoughby-wnba-draft-first-round/5150594002/ |title=Phoenix Mercury trade WNBA first-round draft pick for veteran Walker-Kimbrough |first=Jeff |last=Metcalfe |website=The Arizona Republic}}

Walker-Kimbrough started the 2021 WNBA season with the Connecticut Sun, where she signed a hardship contract and played one game.{{Cite web |title=Connecticut Signs Shatori Walker-Kimbrough – Connecticut Sun |url=https://sun.wnba.com/news/connecticut-signs-shatori-walker-kimbrough/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=sun.wnba.com}}

Later in the 2021 season, she returned to the Washington Mystics.{{Cite web |last=Copeland |first=Kareem |date=2021-09-07 |title=Mystics guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough goes from WNBA to YMCA and back |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/07/shatori-walker-kimbrough-mystics-reunion/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=The Washington Post}} She continued with the Mystics in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

On February 1, 2025, Walker-Kimbrough signed with the Atlanta Dream.{{Cite web |title=Atlanta Dream Sign Veteran Guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough |url=https://dream.wnba.com/news/atlanta-dream-sign-veteran-guard-shatori-walker-kimbrough |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=dream.wnba.com |language=en}}

=Overseas=

Walker-Kimbrough started the 2017–18 season in Turkey with OGM Ormanspor. In January 2018, she joined MBK Ružomberok in Slovakia. She played for Diósgyőri VTK in Hungary in 2018–19 and 2019–20, and then Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland 2020–21. For the 2021–22 season, she played for A.S. Ramat Hasharon in Israel. She continued in Israel in 2022–23 with Maccabi Bnot Ashdod, where she averaged 20.0 points, 7.6 rebounds, 5.3 assists, and 2.4 steals per game.{{Cite web |url=https://www.timesonline.com/story/sports/women/2023/05/18/hopewells-shatori-walker-kimbrough-super-thankful-to-still-call-basketball-her-job/70230346007/ |title=Hopewell's Shatori Walker-Kimbrough 'super thankful' to still call basketball her job |website=Beaver County Times}} For the 2023–24 season, she played for Çankaya Üniversitesi S.K. in Turkey.

Walker-Kimbrough returned to Gorzów for the 2024-2025 season.{{Cite web |last=Kozica |first=Szymon |date=2024-10-22 |title=Shatori wraca do Gorzowa. „To dla mnie zaszczyt” |url=https://lci-lubuskie.pl/2024/10/22/shatori-wraca-do-gorzowa-to-dla-mnie-zaszczyt/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=LCI - Nasza Lubuska |language=pl-PL}} She won the Polish Cup with the team{{Cite web |date=2025-01-25 |title=PolskaStrefaInwestycji Enea AJP Gorzów Wlkp. z Pucharem |url=https://pzkosz.pl/aktualnosci/n/69076/polskastrefainwestycji-enea-ajp-gorzow-wlkp--z-pucharem.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=PZKosz.pl - Strona Polskiego Związku Koszykówki}} and reached the Polish league finals, where Gorzów fell 0–3 to Arka Gdynia.{{Cite web |date=2025-04-12 |title=VBW Gdynia mistrzem Polski! |url=https://pzkosz.pl/aktualnosci/n/69197/ |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=PZKosz.pl - Strona Polskiego Związku Koszykówki}}

Career statistics

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|+ Legend

style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | GP

| Games played

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | GS

| Games started

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | MPG

| Minutes per game

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | FG%

| Field goal percentage

style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | 3P%

| 3-point field goal percentage

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | FT%

| Free throw percentage

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | RPG

| Rebounds per game

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | APG

| Assists per game

style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | SPG

| Steals per game

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;" | BPG

| Blocks per game

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | TO

| Turnovers per game

| style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | PPG

| Points per game

style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black" | Bold

| Career high

| style="background-color: #cfecec; border: 1px solid black" | *

| Led Division I

class="wikitable"

| style="background:#afe6ba; width:3em;" |†

|Denotes season(s) in which Walker-Kimbrough won a WNBA championship

=WNBA=

==Regular season==

Stats current through end of 2024 season

{{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA regular season statistics}}

| style='text-align:left;'|2017

| style='text-align:left;'|Washington

| 27 || 8 || 12.4 || .371 || .333 || .854 || 1.1 || 0.4 || 0.6 || 0.1 || 0.6 || 4.4

| style='text-align:left;'|2018

| style='text-align:left;'|Washington

| 19 || 1 || 8.8 || .429 || .304 || 1.000 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.4 || 0.3 || 0.8 || 3.5

| style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;" | 2019^†

| style='text-align:left;'|Washington

| 34 || 1 || 17.1 || .432 || .310 || .930 || 1.6 || 1.2 || 0.8 || 0.2 || 1.0 || 6.7

| style='text-align:left;'|2020

| style='text-align:left;'|Phoenix

| 21 || 10 || 19.0 || .429 || .431 || .920 || 1.6 || 1.5 || 1.1 || 0.4 || 1.0 || 7.3

| style='text-align:left;' rowspan=2|2021

| style='text-align:left;'|Connecticut

| 1 || 0 || 4.0 || — || — || — || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0.0

| style='text-align:left;'|Washington

| 16 || 13 || 21.6 || .513 || .320 || .857 || 1.4 || 1.0 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 1.2 || 7.4

| style='text-align:left;'|2022

| style='text-align:left;'|Washington

| 35 || 3 || 20.1 || .402 || .347 || .902 || 1.8 || 1.5 || 1.1 || 0.3 || 1.1 || 6.9

| style='text-align:left;'| 2023

| style='text-align:left;'| Washington

| 40 || 15 || 24.8 || .429 || .390 || .936 || 2.1 || 1.7 || 0.7 || 0.4 || 0.7 || 6.3

| style='text-align:left;'| {{wnbay|2024}}

| style='text-align:left;'| Washington

|40 || 2 || 22.1 || .415 || .330 || .806 || 1.7 || 1.9 || 1.1 || 0.5 || 1.4 || 7.5

|- class="sortbottom"

| style='text-align:left;'| Career

| style='text-align:left;'| 8 years, 3 teams

| 233 || 53 || 18.9 || .423 || .350 || .887 || 1.6 || 1.3 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 1.0 || 6.3

==Playoffs==

| align="left" | 2017

| align="left" | Washington

| 3 || 0 || 2.0 || .000 || — || — || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0

| align="left" | 2018

| align="left" | Washington

| 4 || 0 || 2.3 || 1.000 || — || — || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 1.5

| style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;" | 2019^†

| align="left" | Washington

| 8 || 0 || 7.0 || .412 || .429 || 1.000 || 0.4 || 0.4 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.5 || 2.4

| align="left" | 2020

| align="left" | Phoenix

| 2 || 1 || 19.0 || .500 || .667 || .500 || 1.5 || 1.5 || 0.0 || 0.5 || 1.0 || 8.5

| align="left" | 2022

| align="left" | Washington

| 2 || 0 || 20.5 || .556 || .500 || 1.000 || 0.0 || 0.5 || 1.5 || 0.0 || 0.5 || 7.5

| align="left" | 2023

| align="left" | Washington

| 2 || 0 || 11.0 || .400 || .000 || .500 || 1.5 || 0.5 || 1.0 || 1.5 || 1.5 || 2.5

|- class="sortbottom"

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 5 years, 2 teams

| 21 || 1 || 8.2 || .489 || .500 || .667 || 0.5 || 0.4 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 0.5 || 3.0

=College=

{{WNBA player statistics start|caption=NCAA statistics{{cite web |title=Shatori Walker-Kimbrough College Stats |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/shatori-walker-kimbrough-1.html|work=Sports Reference}}{{Cite web |url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careerplayer |title=NCAA Statistics |website=web1.ncaa.org |access-date=May 26, 2021}}}}

| align="left" |2013–14

| align="left" |Maryland

|35||0||17.3||.478||.397||.766||2.9||1.5||1.2||0.2||1.4||9.3

| align="left" |2014–15

| align="left" |Maryland

|37||37||29.5||.513||.340||.804||5.3||2.1||1.5||0.5||2.1||13.3

| align="left" |2015–16

| align="left" |Maryland

|35||34||31.3||.543||bgcolor=#cfecec|.545*||.809||6.0||3.3||1.9||1.1||3.4||19.5

| align="left" |2016–17

| align="left" |Maryland

|35||34||29.2||.526||.450||.816||3.7||3.6||1.9||0.7||2.9||18.8