MINNEAPOLIS —
The women entered the lobby of Radisson hotel through the revolving door, pulling luggage for each person on this business trip.
Taylor Hill has different ways of carrying. on.
She wears the same white T-shirt as everyone else.
She wore a shirt and a bronze jacket with tight jeans and sandals.
But, on Tuesday, when the other women pulled the roller bag, Hill dragged her son Morris and would be 1-year-
When his nanny followed a few feet behind with a bag of clothes and toys on her back, she was old.
For the 24-year-old Hill, the news that Morris was about to arrive last summer was tense.
Like many women, she is concerned about how forming a family can affect her career so hard to work.
More than a year later, the boundaries between the work of the Washington Mystic guard and the mother are intertwined, and the Washington Mystic guard is one of four active WNBA players. A first-
In the 2013 draft, since Morris was born 14 months ago, Hill had to make sacrifices in her basketball career, and now, she balanced the hard task of being a young mother and returning to her peak.
It means putting Morris and her life together.
In the babysitter, Nicole Sault and she took part in most of the team\'s road races together.
Hill and her teammates played a game with the Minnesota Bobcats on Wednesday, but after checking in at the hotel, unloading luggage, changing diapers, fixing bottles, she changed her sandals to sneakers, I attended a birthday party.
\"When you become a mother, you learn how to balance your life between your career and your children,\" Hill said . \".
\"It must be harder than others.
Explore Morris when Hill opens the package.
She put a row of milk and juice bottles in the hotel room.
In the counter under the TV, put the urine cloth and baby wipes next to it.
Sackett opened a travel bag with a few of Morris\'s favorite toys in his hand and handed him a small basketball.
This is a formal basketball family.
When Morris was bouncing around the room, Hill was ready to practice.
Her boyfriend and Maurice\'s father, David Letty, are with his team in France more than 4,000 miles away.
The two met while playing basketball in Ohio.
Hill once told her mother that she wanted to form a family by the age of 30, but she didn\'t think it would happen soon.
She was the fourth selected star.
2013 WNBA talent shows, including Studded tney er, Elena Delle Donne and Skylar digins.
Hill averaged 17 points in her rookie season. 4 minutes 6.
Five points per game, she signed a contract with an Israeli team after the summer of 2013.
It was not until she had a body in Israel that she knew she was pregnant.
\"This is definitely not a plan,\" Hill said . \".
\"But since he\'s here, I won\'t change anything.
Hill moved from one end of the hotel room to the other, while taking care of Morris, preparing himself for his afternoon practice at Minni apores.
He tried to go where she went, and as soon as she closed the bathroom door behind him, he cried.
After hearing his sobs, she opened it again and motioned him to come in as well.
When she went to the door to practice, he tried to follow her.
\"You\'re not coming,\" she told him, and he cried again when she left him to Saket. The most nerve-
The most painful part of pregnancy is the news that mysterious coach Mike Tibo must be told.
Hill was his first draft as coach and general manager of mystic and now she has to inform him that she will be sitting outside for most of her second season.
She breathed a sigh of relief when he supported her.
Her absence put the team at a disadvantage, especially until this year when an organization was unable to replace pregnant players on the roster. Mystics three-
This year\'s veteran Tianna Hawkins has not played this season and her son Emanuel is on June17.
WNBA players want to get 50% of their salary before they start playing again and still have full medical benefitsthe-
Clock nanny will increase economic pressure. A first-
Round-draft options like Hill will have a minimum base salary of about $45,000 in her second year, and that number will increase as the annual experience increases.
\"As a parent and someone with their own children, I can empathize and understand this,\" said Thibault . \".
\"My first reaction is that basketball is not yourself;
This is your way to make a living.
If your choice is to build a family and everything else, then you obviously know the consequences, so I will support you from this perspective.
\"As a basketball coach, it\'s a business and from my point of view my job is to win the game with the team I have.
I will not make a commitment to the player in one way or another.
I\'m not saying, \'Hey, your location is there.
There\'s no good day for you to go.
But I won\'t let them divorce the team either.
\"Sheryl Swoopes set the standard for women basketball players with children in the middle of their careers.
In the 1997 WNBA, Swoopes announced that she was pregnant before the first season.
She missed the first six weeks of the season and returned to the stadium on August.
Taking her younger son to the road race didn\'t stop Swoopes from winning three WNBA mvp\'s.
The two best players in the league, Lisa Lesley and Tina Thompson, also continued to have children during the game.
\"Male athletes don\'t have to worry about taking time off or what impact it will have on their careers,\" Swoopes said . \".
\"As women, if it\'s important to us, it\'s something we want to do --
Become a mother-
We must consider these things.
How will this affect my career?
How will it affect my body?
Especially if you are an athlete, can you come back?
What shape would I be if I did that?
Hill is nervous about what it means to have a baby for her career, and she came into contact with Los Angeles spark star forward Candice Parker early in her pregnancy.
Parker missed the start of the 2009 season after giving birth to his daughter Laila.
She has also been worried not about how she will bounce back as a basketball player, but about whether she can be a \"normal mom \".
\"Her mother stayed at home with her, so she wanted to beon.
For the first 21/2 years of her life, she and Leila didn\'t spend the night apart and travel around the world together to play basketball, so Parker assured Hill, \"It\'s the best thing ever.
\"You will have a child who will be part of your career and be able to grow up and remember to watch you play,\" Parker recalls . \".
\"I think this is the biggest thing for me, like how special is it that I can share this experience with my favorite thing in the world?
\"Parker played again in two months after the match with rabbis, averaging 13 games. 1points and 9.
Eight rebounds per game that season.
Hill returned to the stadium just five weeks after owning Morris and played in the last five games of last season.
When her brother P. J.
Hill advised her to take a moment before resuming training, and she told him Parker that a quick recovery would be feasible.
Since Hill grew up in Minneapolis, the schedule of the road trip has been busier than others.
Nanny Sault and Morris usually relax in the hotel room during hill practice or in the morning shoot-around.
They may walk around and explore, just like the Mystics play games in New York City and Morris go to Times Square.
Even though Hill had a crib in her hotel room, Morris slept with her and occasionally woke her up in the middle of the night, pleading, \"Dad, the way he wants a bottle of milk.
The only time that Sackett makes sure Hill isn\'t interrupted by Morris is that she takes a regular nap before each game.
When Morris needs a break, Hill\'s teammates sometimes help her.
When a hotel they stayed in gave Morris a balloon, they taught him how to say \"balloon \".
Whenever the mystic guard Natasha Cloud says \"a flick of the wrist,\" Morris imitates the shooting.
\"He is a member of our family,\" Yun said . \".
\"I treat him like my little brother.
After Hill practiced, she met her family at Chuck E.
Cheese for Morris\'s first birthday party.
Birthday cake made with pizza, gifts, cupcakes and singing-
Even if it arrived two months after Morris\'s actual birthday, it was Chuck E in Northern Virginia. Cheese’s.
After blowing out the candles, Morris dipped his little fingers into the icing on the cupcakes and took them to Hill\'s mouth to suck her clean.
Hill and Morris had a video chat with Letty, who was in France, about 2: 30. m.
At the time of this birthday celebration
Morris kissed the screen of the phone.
Hill is the third-largest of seven siblings, and she often helps her mother take care of her four sisters and older brothers, the youngest of whom is 6 years old.
She likes children so much that she wants to open a daycare center after her basketball career.
\"I know she will come up with a way to make it work,\" Taylor\'s mother, Monique Hill, said . \".
\"My husband is kind of like, \'Oh, no, why?
She should have waited.
But that\'s good.
The next night, Hill\'s sister lifted Morris\'s arms into the air at the center of the target and began shaking them --and-
Hill and her mysterious teammates ran to the stadium to warm up before the game.
Hill came off the bench like her all season.
She has been in shape for the last year after her pregnancy.
She is now listed on the roster at 5 feet and 145 pounds.
Last winter, instead of going overseas to play, she and Morris went to France to be with Wright, but that means Hill has basically been away from basketball for more than a year.
She is 7 years old on average.
6 points per game this season.
The three players led Hill in 2013.
Griner, aldonn and digins-were all-
This year\'s stars, as well as mythic teammates Emma mesemann and Stefani Dorson, are both young or younger people in Hill.
\"She did take a step back,\" said Thibault . \".
\"I think she will tell you.
This is in several ways.
In our team, we expect that we have to move on and develop other players.
She had to fight to get back into the rotation.
Hill played very little in the last five games of last season.
She hasn\'t lost all her baby weight yet, and she\'s still breastfeeding Morris, which often makes her uncomfortable and needs to pump her milk at the end of the long race.
Parker said she took care of her daughter for 15 months while playing in the WNBA and overseas.
She just made sure to keep moisture and wear an extra sports bra.
As Morris grows older, the career of mother and Hill will continue to span.
Hill says she wants to play overseas after the WNBA season.
But when Morris was old enough to start grade one
A long basketball schedule may not be an option unless she wants to go home
Let him go to school or separate
On Thursday, Parker sent her daughter to the first day of the first grade. in the face of these decisions, Leila is 6 years old.
When she went to kindergarten last year, Laila would spend a month in Russia and Parker before returning to the United States for a month, but Parker said she wanted to be more stable now.
\"My thing is that in the first four and a half years of her life, everything is about mom and my schedule,\" Parker said . \".
\"The child travels around the world in 15 different time zones.
She did everything on my terms and I think it was about her when she started school. . . .
I have been playing overseas for a few years and now it\'s about her.
In my 79-
61 victory over Minnesota Bobcats on Wednesday night, Hill\'s family and friends at her 10-
Point performance.
When she came out, they applauded, and her younger brother and sister ran over to hug her, while others took pictures.
She shuttled through the crowd to Morris, sitting on his grandfather\'s shoulder.
Hill picked him up and pressed his face next to his face, the post-match moment she was looking forward to after every away game.
They boarded the team bus the next morning.
Mom, baby and nanny
Fly to the airport and fly to Chicago for the next game of mystic, where the three will start again.