Dearica Hamby replaces Sparks teammate Cameron Brink on US 3×3 Olympic team WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

NEW YORK — (AP) — Before the season started, Dearica Hamby wrote her goals down on a basketball.

On the list was making the U.S. 3×3 Olympic team.

She didn’t initially achieve that because she wasn’t one of the four members of the squad chosen earlier this month. Now she can check that off after replacing Los Angeles Sparks teammate Cameron Brink, who tore the ACL in her left knee last week.

“My heart breaks for her. When she got the news she made it and I got the news I didn’t originally, we cried together,” Hamby told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s kind of an ironic situation. I’m sure if she wanted to have anybody replace her, she’d want it to be me.”

She joins Hailey Van Lith, Cierra Burdick and Rhyne Howard on the squad that will compete at the Paris Games next month. The U.S. …