Park Ji-su 박지수 | |
League: | Turkish Super League EuroCup Women |
Team: | Galatasaray |
Number: | n/a |
Position: | Center |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 4 |
Weight Lbs: | 206 |
Birth Date: | 1998 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Seongnam, South Korea |
Nationality: | South Korean |
High School: | Bundang (Seongnam, Gyeonggi) |
Draft League: | WNBA |
Draft Year: | 2018 |
Draft Round: | 2 |
Draft Pick: | 17 |
Draft Team: | Minnesota Lynx |
Career Start: | 2016 |
Years1: | 2016–2024 |
Team1: | Cheongju KB Stars |
Years2: | – |
Team2: | Las Vegas Aces |
Years3: | 2024–present |
Team3: | Galatasaray |
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Park Ji-su (; born 6 December 1998) is a South Korean professional basketball player.
Park made her international debut 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in the Netherlands, at age 13.[1] Alongside this, Park participated at the 2014 U-17 World Championship in the Czech Republic, as well as the 2013 and 2015 U-19 World Championships in Lithuania and Russia respectively. Park had a prolific youth career at international tournaments, participating in seven FIBA events, across five years. This was highlighted by two bronze medals at FIBA Asia youth events.
Park made her debut with the senior national team, at the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women in Turkey when she was 15 years old.[2] Park averaged 11 points and 5 five rebounds per game in her senior debut.
In 2016, Park began her professional career with the Cheongju KB Stars for the 2016–17 season.[3] In 2017, Park received the WKBL Newcomer Award for the 2016–17 season.
In 2018, Park Ji-su was drafted as the seventeenth overall pick by the Minnesota Lynx.[4] After being released by the Lynx, Park was then picked up by the Las Vegas Aces, where she made the final roster and her WNBA debut aged 19.[5]
In May 2020, Aces announced that Park would sit out the 2020 season to train in South Korea.[6]
On July 20, 2024, she signed with Galatasaray of the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League (TKBL).[7]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2018| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas| 32 || 11 || 13.0 || .388 || .000 || .619 || 3.3 || 0.9 || 0.3 || 0.6 || 0.7 || 2.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas| 25 || 0 || 6.5 || .216 || .000 || .444 || 1.1 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 0.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas| 25 || 0 || 8.9 || .327 || .000 || .833 || 1.8 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 0.6 || 0.8 || 2.0|-| colspan=2; style="text-align:center;"| Career| 82 || 11 || 9.8 || .337 || .000 || .667 || 2.2 || 0.7 || 0.2 || 0.5 || 0.6 || 1.9
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas| 3 || 0 || 4.7 || .200 || - || - || 0.7 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.7|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021| style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas| 4 || 0 || 4.0 || .000 || - || .000 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 0.0|-| colspan=2; style="text-align:center;"| Career| 7 || 0 || 4.3 || .125 || - || .000 || 0.4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 0.3