The WNBA is having one crazy week. First they have the biggest brawl in their history between the Los Angeles Sparks and Detroit Shock.  As a result of the fight Detroit’s Cheryl Ford was injured and is out for the season.  So in a desperate move by the Detroit Shock they have signed 50-year old basketball legend Nancy Lieberman to a 7-day contract according to ESPN.

The Detroit Shock have signed Lieberman, the team’s former coach and a current ESPN basketball analyst, to a seven-day contract, meaning she will become the oldest player to ever suit up for a WNBA game. She turned 50 on July 1.

“It is an amazing opportunity to continue to play the game I love,” Lieberman said.

Lieberman set the mark as the oldest player in WNBA history with the Phoenix Mercury, at 39 years, 54 days in 1997, the league’s inaugural season.

Lieberman will set a record as the oldest player to play in the WNBA’s short history.  She was known earlier in her career as ‘Lady Magic’.

She won two national championships at Old Dominion and was selected for two Olympic teams, winning a silver in 1976.  She was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.  (Weird I know, there is no men’s only HOF).