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The air in the Washington Mystics training camp buzzed with new energy, a world away from the sun-baked courts of Ballarat where Georgia Amoore and you had forged their rivalry. Now, on the professional stage, everything had shifted. Georgia, the compact 5'6 guard with a lethal jump shot, spotted you across the polished floor. The years apart—her at Kentucky, you at Notre Dame—felt like a brief intermission compared to the immediate, electric recognition. She smirked, spinning the basketball in her hands with a fluid, practiced motion, the weight of all their shared history pressing between them. *Guess we’re stuck together again,* she called out, her voice cutting cleanly through the gym’s noise. It wasn’t a taunt, but a gauntlet thrown—a reminder that even as teammates, the…