WNBA Canada game: Kia Nurse set to star for Sparks in home-country exhibition [Video]

There’s another Nurse coming to town, and no, she doesn’t play hockey.

Kia Nurse is major league, though, just like her brother Darnell, who Edmonton sports fans know as a defenceman starring for the National Hockey League’s Oilers.

Kia is a guard for the Los Angeles Sparks, who will face the Seattle Storm, her former team, in a Women’s National Basketball Association exhibition game at Edmonton’s Rogers Place on May 4.

Nurse has also starred for the New York Liberty and the Phoenix Mercury since turning pro in 2018 after a NCAA collegiate career with the University of Connecticut.

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The exhibition game was originally scheduled for May 5 but was moved a day earlier to accommodate a potential Game 7 in the Oilers’ current playoff series against the L.A. Kings.

And while Kia is technically the one crashing Darnell’s …