The WNBA is mourning one of its own.
Former basketball player Kara Braxton, won two WNBA championships while playing for the Detroit Shock, has died, the league announced. She was 43.
“It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of 2x WNBA Champion Kara Braxton,” the WNBA said in a statement shared to X Feb. 22. “A 10-season veteran, Kara played with the Detroit Shock, Tulsa Shock, Phoenix Mercury, and New York Liberty.”
The statement ended, “Our thoughts are with her family, friends, and former teammates at this time.”
Braxton’s cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
Braxton played basketball at the University of Georgia from 2001 until 2004 and was drafted by the Shock as the seventh overall pick in the 2005 WNBA draft in April of that year, four months after giving birth to her son Jelani Thurman, who she shared with Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Odell Thurman.
She was named to the WNBA All-Rookie team during her first season in the league and would go on to win the championship in 2006 and 2008 with Detroit.
