NBA player Jewell Loyd was born in the United States on October 5, 1993. She currently plays for the Seattle Storm of the Women’s National Basketball Association and Perfumerias Avenida of Spain’s Liga Femenina de Baloncesto.
After playing collegiate basketball at Notre Dame, Loyd was chosen by the Seattle Storm as the first overall choice in the 2015 WNBA Draft.
At Skokie, Illinois’ Niles West High School, Loyd began playing basketball. She contributed to the team’s 93-31 record over her four years of play, averaging 24.8 points and 11.9 rebounds per contest while scoring 3,077 points overall.
Following her time at Notre Dame, Loyd continued to play basketball professionally, spending the offseasons with various overseas clubs. She participated in 17 games for Galatasaray in Turkey in 2015, averaging 14.9 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 2.3 assists.
She re-signed with the Shanxi Flame of the Chinese League the following year for the 2016–17 offseason. For the 2017–18 offseason, she joined the Korean League team Guri KDB Life Winnus.
She subsequently signed a contract with Botaş SK of the Turkish League for the 2018–19 campaign in August 2018. Loyd kept playing for several teams abroad, then in 2019 she committed to the Spanish League’s Perfumeras Avenida for the 2019–20 offseason.
Who is the gold mamba?
Why is Jewell Loyd called the Gold Mamba? The player that showed Loyd the most esteem was her basketball counterpart, Kobe Bryant. Bryant awarded Loyd the nickname “The Gold Mamba” after watching her play, appreciating both her hard ethic and her skill.