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Temi Fagbenle
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Fagbenle with Beşiktaş in 2024
No. 14 – Beşiktaş
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Personal information
Born (1992-09-08) 8 September 1992 (age 32)
Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality Nigerian/British/American
High school
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight 180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
College
  • Harvard (2011–2015)
  • USC (2015–2017)
NBA Draft 2016 / Round: 3 / Pick: 35th overall
Selected by the Minnesota Lynx
Pro career 2017–present
League Turkish Super League
Career history
2017–2019 Minnesota Lynx
2017–2019 CCC Polkowice
2019 BOTAŞ
2019–2020 Perfumerías Avenida
2020–2021 Reyer Venezia
2021–2022 Çukurova Basketbol
2022–2023 ZVVZ USK Praha
2023–2024 London Lions
2024 Indiana Fever
2024–present Beşiktaş
2025–present Golden State Valkyries
Career highlights and awards
  • EuroCup champion (2024)
  • WBBL Trophy champion (2024)
  • WBBL MVP (2023-2024)
  • WBBL All-Star & MVP (2024)
  • Euroleague Final Four 2023
  • Czech Championship 2023
  • EuroCup Finalist (2022)
  • Turkish Cup 2021
  • EuroCup Finalist (2021)
  • Lega Basket Femminile champion (2021)
  • Copa de la Reina champion (2020)
  • Eurobasket All-Star 5 2019
  • Euroleague Final 8 (2017)
  • Polish Championship MVP 2019
  • Polish Champion 2017-2019
  • WNBA champion (2017)
  • All Pac-12 Team (2016)
  • First-team All-Ivy League (2014)
  • Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2013)
Temi Fagbenle (cropped)
Fagbenle in 2019

Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Títílọlá "Temi" Fágbénlé is an American-born Nigerian-British professional basketball player for the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Super League. She was chosen for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992 to a Nigerian family in Baltimore, Maryland, and has eleven siblings, including actor O. T. Fagbenle, film producer Luti Fagbenle, and video producer Oladapo 'Daps' Fagbenle. Her family moved to London, United Kingdom when she was aged 2 and she began playing basketball at the Haringey Angels club. When she was fifteen she returned to the United States to study at Blair Academy in New Jersey. She attended Harvard University before transferring to the University of Southern California for her final year of NCAA basketball. As of 2012 she was 1.93 metres (6 ft 4 in) tall and weighs 79.5 kilograms (175 lb).

High school career

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Fagbenle dancing with a fan in 2017

During her time at Blair Academy Fagbenle was voted on to the McDonald's All American High School team.

Professional career

Fagbenle has won several national championships in Spain, Italy and Great Britain as well as the EuroCup 2024 with the London Lions.

WNBA

Minnesota Lynx (2017–2019)

In her WNBA rookie season 2017 she won the WNBA championship as a member of the Minnesota Lynx.

Indiana Fever (2024)

In January 2024, Fagbenle was signed by the Indiana Fever to a training camp contract. She made the final roster and appeared in the first eight regular season games (24 minutes / 9.1 points / 5.6 rebounds) during the first month of the season for the Fever before suffering an undisclosed left foot injury.

Golden State Valkyries (2025–present)

On December 6, 2024, Fagbenle was selected as the Golden State Valkyries' pick from the Indiana Fever's 2024 roster in the WNBA's expansion draft.

International career

She has represented Great Britain at the under-16, 18 and 20 levels and competed at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship held in Serbia.

She was named in the British team for the women's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London having been fast-tracked into the senior side from the under-20s. She averaged 4.8 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1.2 blocks and 1 steal in 19.2 minutes per game. GB went 0-5 and failed to qualify from their group.

Her selection for the Olympics came after a 12-month period in which she was unable to play for the Harvard Crimson women's basketball team due to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) declaring her ineligible. Fagbenle had taken the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam whilst at school in the UK and NCAA rules say that an athlete must be enrolled in college within two years of sitting for the exam; Fagbenle took an additional year to graduate from high school because she repeated a year after moving to the United States.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career high ° League leader
† Denotes seasons in which Fagbenle won a WNBA championship

WNBA

Regular season

Stats current through end of 2024 regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2016 Did not play (continuing education)
2017† Minnesota 21 0 4.2 .500 — .778 1.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 1.2
2018 Minnesota 30 2 9.4 .506 — .696 2.0 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.7 3.1
2019 Minnesota 18 0 15.1 .519 .167 .722 2.9 0.8 0.3 0.3 1.8 5.4
2020 Did not appear in WNBA
2021
2022
2023
2024 Indiana 22 2 18.9 .509 .167 .786 4.7 0.9 0.5 0.7 1.2 6.4
Career 4 years, 2 teams 91 4 11.6 .510 .167 .744 2.6 0.6 0.3 0.4 1.0 3.9

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2017† Minnesota 2 0 2.0 .667 — — 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0
2018 Minnesota 1 0 24.0 .875 1.000 — 4.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 15.0
2019 Minnesota 1 0 16.0 .500 — — 1.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 4.0
2024 Indiana 2 1 24.0 .444 .500 — 5.5 2.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 4.5
Career 4 years, 2 teams 4 1 15.3 .625 .667 — 2.8 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.2 5.3

College

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2012–13 Harvard 29 28 25.0 .578 .667 .684 7.7 1.1 1.0 1.3 2.8 12.3
2013–14 Harvard 30 30 25.7 .539 .286 .705 9.3 1.7 0.8 1.4 2.6 13.0
2014–15 Harvard 27 27 29.4 .490 .250 .773 10.1 2.0 1.2 1.0 3.0 14.3
2015–16 Southern California 32 32 30.3 .514 .250 .705 8.7 1.3 1.8 1.2 2.1 13.6
Career 118 117 27.6 .526 .393 .722 8.9 1.5 1.2 1.2 2.6 13.3
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