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Myisha Hines-Allen

American basketball player (born 1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ56224090
Source-derived summary

Myisha Hines-Allen (born May 30, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In college she played for the University of Louisville.

Growing up in Montclair, New Jersey, Hines-Allen was a fan of the WNBA, particularly the New York Liberty. She attended Montclair High School.

Professional career

WNBA

Hines-Allen was drafted by the Washington Mystics in the second round of the 2018 WNBA draft. She is one of only two Mystics players to get to more than 1,400 points, 900 rebounds and 300 assists playing for the team. She is 8th for the Mystics franchise history on rebounds. On the Mystics, she was called on to be versatile, switching between starting and coming off the bench and playing different roles. After playing seven seasons, 187 regular-season games, for the Washington Mystics, Hines-Allen was traded to the Minnesota Lynx at the trade deadline for the 2024 season.

In August 2024, Hines-Allen was traded to the Minnesota Lynx in exchange for Olivia Époupa, Sika Koné and a second-round pick in the 2026 WNBA draft.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2018, 2024, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-05-30. The account is most persuasive where Myisha, Hines-Allen and American can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56224090. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2018, 2024 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from Myisha Hines-Allen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.