Lorela Cubaj

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Lorela Cubaj
File:Lorela Cubaj 13 Italy 20250629 (2).jpg
Cubaj with Italy at the EuroBasket Women 2025
No. 13 – Umana Reyer Venezia
PositionForward
LeagueWNBA
Lega Basket Femminile
Personal information
Born (1999-01-08) January 8, 1999 (age 27)
Terni, Italy
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High schoolIstituto Paritario Giuseppe Parini
(Mestre, Italy)
College
WNBA draft2022: 2nd round, 18th overall pick
Drafted bySeattle Storm
Playing career2015–present
Career history
2015–2017Umana Reyer Venezia
2022New York Liberty
2022–presentUmana Reyer Venezia
2023–presentAtlanta Dream
Career highlights
  • Lega Basket Femminile champion (2024)
  • 2× ACC Defensive Player of the Year (2021, 2022)
  • 2× First-team All-ACC (2021, 2022)
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Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Medals
Women's Basketball
Representing File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy
EuroBasket
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Greece
U17 World Championship
Silver medal – second place 2016 Spain
U16 European Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Portugal

Lorela Cubaj (born January 8, 1999) is an Italian professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Umana Reyer Venezia of the Lega Basket Femminile. She played college basketball at Georgia Tech. She was drafted by the Seattle Storm in the 2022 WNBA draft and played for the New York Liberty in the WNBA. She was waived by the team during her rookie season on July 1, 2022 after playing 11 games.

Playing career

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Early years

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Cubaj started playing basketball when she was 8. She won the Italian U18 championship with Umana Reyer Venezia in the 2016–17 season.[1]

College career

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Cubaj signed with Georgia Tech the summer of 2017.[1] She made the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen with the Yellow Jackets in 2021, where they were defeated by South Carolina. That match Cubaj scored 15 points and grabbed 7 rebounds.[2]

Professional career

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On April 11, 2022, Cubaj was drafted 18th overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2022 WNBA draft and they traded her draft rights to New York immediately.[3] Cubaj played in 11 games for the Liberty during her rookie season before being waived on July 1, 2022.[4] On 15 June 2022 Cubaj was signed to Umana Reyer Venezia for the 2022–23 LBF season.[5]

Career statistics

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Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career best ° League leader

WNBA

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Regular season

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Stats current through end of 2024 season

WNBA regular season statistics[6]
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2022 New York 11 0 8.0 .333 — — 2.1 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.7
2023 Atlanta 3 0 6.3 .000 — — 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.0
2024 Atlanta 28 1 7.9 .429 — .600 1.5 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.4 1.2
Career 3 years, 2 teams 42 1 7.8 .396 — .600 1.7 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.4 1.0

Playoffs

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WNBA playoff statistics
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2024 Atlanta 2 0 11.0 .500 — — 2.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 1.0
Career 1 year, 1 team 2 0 11.0 .500 — — 2.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 1.0

College

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NCAA statistics[7]
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2017–18 Georgia Tech 34 32 20.6 32.9 16.7 46.2 4.4 1.5 1.4 0.8 1.5 3.7
2018–19 Georgia Tech 30 29 28.3 40.9 25.0 50.0 7.3 2.0 1.5 1.0 2.3 7.0
2019–20 Georgia Tech 31 30 34.2 44.9 28.0 57.8 7.7 2.5 1.2 1.2 1.9 10.0
2020–21 Georgia Tech 26 26 33.3 43.9 19.4 59.2 11.5 2.8 1.3 1.3 2.3 12.5
2021–22 Georgia Tech 32 32 33.6 42.0 17.4 67.0 11.1 4.3 1.4 1.3 2.1 10.0
Career 153 149 29.7 41.7 21.3 58.4 8.3 2.6 1.3 1.1 2.0 8.5

National team

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Youth level

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Cubaj won the bronze medal with the Italian team at the U16 European Championship in 2015, averaging 11 points and 6.6 rebounds and being voted to the tournament All-Star Five.[8][9] One year later she won the silver medal with the Italian U17 team, at the 2016 U17 World Championship in Spain. They lost the final against Australia. At the tournament Cubaj averaged 6.1 points and 5.4 rebounds.[10] A few weeks later, she was part of the Italian U18 national team at the U18 European Championship in Hungary and finished seventh place. At the tournament Cubaj averaged 10.4 points and 7.3 rebounds.[11]

References

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