Complex sentence: Because the U.S. lacked a women's pro league, Brown played professionally in Europe and Japan for almost a decade before she was selected by the Seattle Reign in the second round of the ABL Draft on June 19,1996.
Split into simpler sentences: Because the U.S. lacked a women's pro league, Brown played professionally in Europe and Japan for almost a decade. She was selected by the Seattle Reign in the second round of the ABL Draft on June 19,1996.