The Indiana Fever have signed point guard Kyra Lambert to a seven-day contract in the wake of season-ending injuries to guards Sydney Colson (torn ACL) and Aari McDonald (broken foot). Lambert will help assume some ball-handling responsibilities
The 28-year-old Lambert has spent her professional career in Europe, most recently in Greece with Olympiacos, where she won the Greek A1 League. During that season, Lambert averaged 15.4 points and 6.3 assists per game, while shooting 42.1 percent from three. She was named Eurocup’s Guard of the Year.
Before her time in Greece, she also played in France (Toulouse), Latvia (TTT Riga), New Zealand (Whai), Slovakia (Slavia Banska Bystrica), and Turkey (Karsiyaka).
In college, she averaged 6.8 points and 2.7 assists per game, playing for Duke for three seasons and at the University of Texas for her final campaign.
Kyra Lambert, Odyssey Sims will serve as the Fever’s new backcourt
In addition to Lambert, the Fever signed Odyssey Sims earlier this week. Sims averaged 9.8 points and 3.5 assists for the Los Angeles Sparks before being waived last month, and averaged 12.6 points and 5.2 assists — shooting 48.3% from the field and 34.5% from three — last season.
Sims and Lambert will look to collectively replace Colson and McDonald, who played substantial guard minutes for the Fever until their injuries last season. McDonald, who joined Indiana mid-season, averaged 9.8 points and 4.7 assists, while Colson played a smaller backup role since the season’s beginning.
The Fever are 18-15 and currently have the league’s sixth-best record, with 11 games left to play.
