Washington, D.C., gained a new star. Georgia Amoore, the Australian point guard, joined the Mystics. Her arrival on the team was welcomed by a warm gesture from one of the city’s other star players, ...

In gratitude for the gift, Gary Batton, chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, said, “We have become kindred spirits with the Irish in the years since the Irish potato famine,” he said.