The 41-year-old becomes the latest great to hang up her boots, but she plans to stick around and continue growing the game.

The Heat even held Medal Recognition Night during Monday’s home loss to the Sacramento Kings, honoring Bam Adebayo, Nikola Jovic and Spoelstra for their work at the Paris Olympics this past summer.

If you are conducting Olympic-related research under a humanities or social sciences perspective and would like to apply for a grant, you might be interested in our two research grant programmes: The ...