Margo Dydek (Utah 1998-2002; San Antonio 2003-04)

WNBA	Poland Basketball	Overseas	Personal
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NO: 12
POS: Center
HGT: 7-2
DOB: April 28, 1974
PASSED AWAY: May 28, 2011
COUNTRY: Poland

WNBA TRANSACTIONS

April 29, 1998	Selected by Utah No. 1 in the 1998 WNBA Draft
April 16, 2005	Traded to Connecticut
August 27, 2008	Signed with Los Angeles

WNBA REGULAR SEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Averaged 12.9 ppg and 7.6 rpg in her first year in Utah, while setting the WNBA record for blocked shots in a season with 114. That record stood for 16 years until Brittney Griner swatted 129 shots in 2014.
• Affectionately known as “Large Marge,” Dydek played her first five years in the league for the Starzz, moving with the team to San Antonio for the 2003 and 2004 campaigns.
• 2003 and 2006 WNBA All-Star.
• 2006 and 2007 WNBA All-Defensive Second Team.
• Dydek played with Connecticut for three seasons, and after giving birth to her first son, David, signed with the Los Angeles Sparks on June 3, 2008. She played just two games with Los Angeles, in what would be her last year in the WNBA.
• Led the league in blocked shots in nine of her 10 full seasons in the league, holds three of the top five single-season blocked shots marks and still holds the WNBA’s career blocked shots record with 877.

WNBA REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS

YEAR	TEAM	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	REB/AVG	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS/AVG
1998	UTA	30	30	839	146	303	.482	1	7	.143	93	127	.732	41	186	227/7.6	53	14	114	108	126	386/12.9
1999	UTA	32	28	733	141	283	.498	7	20	.350	114	133	.857	38	166	204/6.4	59	13	77	91	112	403/12.6
2000	UTA	32	32	775	105	236	.445	2	14	.143	82	103	.796	29	146	175/5.5	51	18	96	82	114	294/9.2
2001	UTA	32	32	970	128	291	.440	6	15	.400	87	109	.798	29	214	243/7.6	64	25	113	90	108	349/10.9
2002	UTA	30	27	876	139	319	.436	2	8	.250	114	135	.844	52	210	262/8.7	71	25	107	96	99	394/13.1
2003	SAS	34	34	926	156	346	.451	0	1	.000	94	130	.723	45	206	251/7.4	58	19	100	80	113	406/11.9
2004	SAS	34	24	682	90	208	.433	1	2	.500	44	58	.759	30	138	168/4.9	60	20	48	64	70	225/6.6
2005	CON	31	30	671	87	162	.537	1	2	.500	50	65	.769	27	168	195/6.3	38	8	71	47	62	225/7.3
2006	CON	34	34	743	125	253	.494	1	4	.250	69	84	.821	35	171	206/6.1	40	21	85	50	73	320/9.4
2007	CON	32	30	643	91	187	.487	2	5	.400	30	38	.789	37	172	209/6.5	31	12	66	51	75	214/6.7
2008	LAS	2	0	14	2	5	.400	0	0	.—	0	0	.—	2	1	3/1.5	0	0	0	0	0	4/2.0
Career		323	301	7872	1210	2593	.467	23	78	.295	777	982	.791	365	1778	2143/6.6	525	175	877	759	952	3220/10.0

WNBA POSTSEASON CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Advanced to the playoffs six times, advancing as far as the 2005 WNBA Finals where Sacramento downed Connecticut 3-1.
• In 24 playoff games, in which her teams posted a 12-12 mark, she averaged 8.3 ppg, 6.5 rpg and 2.5 bpg.

WNBA POSTSEASON STATISTICS

Year	Tm	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	REB/AVG	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
2001	UTA	2	2	69	9	21	.429	0	0		10	13	.769	1	13	14/7.0	3	1	7	4	10	28/14.0
2002	UTA	5	5	171	22	55	.400	3	5	.600	13	15	.867	3	41	44/8.8	12	1	17	16	17	60/12.0
2005	CON	8	8	146	14	38	.368	1	1	1.000	7	11	.636	8	34	42/5.3	4	3	13	16	19	36/4.5
2006	CON	5	5	133	22	48	.458	0	1	.000	11	13	.846	12	24	36/7.2	4	4	14	8	17	55/11.0
2007	CON	3	3	80	10	25	.400	1	2	.500	0	2	.000	3	16	19/6.3	2	0	8	3	4	21/7.0
2008	LAS	1	0	1	0	0	.—	0	0	.—	0	0	.—	0	1	1/1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0.0
Career		24	23	600	77	187	.412	5	9	.556	41	54	.759	27	129	156/6.5	25	9	59	47	67	200/8.3

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POLAND BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHTS

• Competed on the Poland National Team from 1992-2005 and in addition to numerous European Championships, played in the 1994 World Championship (13th) and 2000 Olympics (8th).
• Helped Poland win an historic first gold medal at the 1999 European Championship, which qualified Poland for the Sydney Olympics in what still stands as its only Olympic women’s basketball appearance to date.
• Played on three junior teams for Poland from 1991-93, including the 1993 FIBA Junior World Championship (now known as the U19 World Cup), where she aided Poland to the bronze medal and a 5-2 record. She scored 19 points in the bronze medal game and led her team overall with 17.7 ppg.
• Inaugurated posthumously into the FIBA Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

POLAND BASKETBALL STATISTICS

TEAM	G	Min	FGM/FGA	PCT	3PM/3PA	PCT	FTM/FTA	PCT	OR	DR	TOT/AVG	AS	PF	TO	ST	BS	PTS/AVG
1994 WC	8	146/18.3	42-69	.609	0-0	—	17-24	.708	21	55	76/9.5	8	25	24	1	0	101/12.6
2000 OLY	7	245/35.0	49-110	.445	1-6	.167	44-56	.786	15	70	85/12.1	10	23	26	4	16	143/20.4
TOTALS	15	391/26.1	91-179	.508	1-6	.167	61-80	.763	36	125	161/10.7	18	48	40	5	16	244/16.3

Note: statistics unavailable for the 1993 FIBA U19 World Cup.

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OVERSEAS CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Competed professionally in Poland, Spain, Russia, Hungary and France from 1992-93 through 2006-07, averaging 13.4 ppg and 8.6 rpg overall in EuroLeague and EuroCup competitions.
• As of the summer of 2020, Dydek, who saw time in 167 EuroLeague contests, listed No. 3 all-time in EuroLeague competitions for both rebounds (1,483) and blocked shots (258) EuroLeague games.

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PERSONAL

• Dydek and her husband, David Twigg, welcomed their second son, Alex, in 2010. Sadly, on May 19, 2011, Dydek suffered a severe heart attack while pregnant with the couples’ third child, and was placed in a medically induced coma. She passed away eight days later on May 27, 2011. Dydek was 37 years old.
• Awarded the Polish Cross of Merit from the government of Poland.
• Born in Warsaw.

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