Kuier became the first Finnish player in WNBA history when Dallas took her 2nd overall in the 2021 draft, having been discovered playing pickup ball in Kotka, Finland at age 10. She stepped away from the WNBA for the 2024 season to focus on an overseas club schedule that overlapped with the WNBA calendar, developing into one of Europe's top two-way bigs, and returned to Dallas on a one-year deal for the 2026 season.
Kuier's path — from pickup games in Finland to the WNBA, with a detour through Europe's top leagues — reflects the league's increasingly international pipeline, a trend the WNBA has leaned into as it expands its overseas broadcast reach and fanbase.
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