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 Sunday, June 11
Bjedov won't play this season
 
 Associated Press

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Rockers guard Michelle Edwards, one of the team's first players, was traded Saturday to the Seattle Storm for the rights to Nina Bjedov.

Bjedov, a 6-foot-6 center, is not playing in the WNBA this season but is expected to return to the league in 2001.

Edwards, who was assigned to the Rockers on Jan. 22, 1997, played 74 games with Cleveland, averaging 8.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 3.1 assists. This season she has averaged 2.7 points in 5.7 minutes of play in two games.

Bjedov has played one season in the WNBA, spending the 1999 season with the L.A. Sparks as Lisa Leslie's backup. She averaged 4.5 points and 2.6 rebounds for the Sparks.

Bjedov, a native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, decided to sit out this season after playing this winter in Brazil.

Rockers head coach Dan Hughes said it was a hard decision to trade Edwards.

"Michelle Edwards has meant a lot to this franchise both on the court and off," he said. "She has been with the team since the beginning. We owe her the opportunity to be somewhere where she will play."