Twenty-four hours before the WNBA’s Ninth All-Star game, you might have expected Mystics guard Alana Beard and her fellow all-stars to be in downtown Washington at the Verizon Center preparing for the game. Instead, she and her teammates were attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Robert English Boys and Girls Club out on Benning Road, and looking forward to christening the center’s newly refurbished basketball court – courtesy of WNBA Cares and Nike – with an open practice in front of 100 or so children and their parents.
