What's next for Liz Cambage: Only her fans know

• Cambage pauses pro basketball at 34, focusing on subscription platform OnlyFans and modelling.
• Hall of Fame-level numbers: one of 12 WNBA players with 15+ points and 7.5+ rebounds.
• Opals career: 36 major games, 18.5 points, 7.6 rebounds, multiple medals on global stage.
• Career now a defining Australian basketball “what if”, splitting opinion on legacy and decisions.

One of Australia’s greatest – and polarising – players ever isn’t playing professional basketball anywhere in the world this season.

Instead, Liz Cambage, 34, is thrilling fans in a different arena, subscription site OnlyFans.

"I feel like women gotta make more money playing the sport they love," Cambage told US gossip site TMZ at LAX earlier this year.

"I think everyone has gotta get it how they can ... as I'm standing here in a mink."

"Just be you. Stick to your personality," Cambage added. 

"I feel like back in the day, there wasn't an opportunity or a space for women to be who they are, but now, I feel like women being more girly or earning their sexuality more, and it's fun."

Cambage, in rare interview released today, told GQ: "I'm a professional basketball player. I have been since I was 15 years old. Basketball lives with me lives within me
when I'm away from team practice I still like to get into the gym and just put up shots. and get in that flow and that mind state of just basketball and forgetting about what else is going on.

"That's always gonna be my therapy and my fun so I'm very lucky that the sport has been a part of my life."

The last season Cambage played was in 2024-25 for the Sichuan Yuanda Meile Basketball Club (China-WCBA). In 22 games she averaged 18.3 points (63.8%), 8.5 rebounds and 1.9 assists. Perth Lynx star Han Xu has also played for Sichuan Yuanda.

Cambage, who was born in 1991 to London to Nigerian and Australian parents, joined OnlyFans in this year and is reportedly already earning more money than during her entire professional basketball career. Some reports suggest it’s in excess of $1.5M.

Between 2018 and 2022, Cambage earned USD $590,836 (AUD $890,00) playing for the Dallas Wings, Las Vegas Aces and Los Angeles Sparks.

From a basketball perspective though, Cambage not playing is disappointing.

She is just one of 12 players in WNBA history to average more than 15 points and 7.5 rebounds during her career. Five of the 12, including Australia’s greatest ever basketball player Lauren Jackson, are in the Hall of Fame while reigning MVP A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier, Brittney Griner are all locks once their careers are over.

Cambage’s career accomplishments are all-world:

• WCBA champion (2024)
• WNBA Peak Performer (2018)
• 4× WNBA All-Star (2011, 2018, 2019, 2021)
• All-WNBA First Team (2018)
• All-WNBA Second Team (2019)
• WNBA scoring leader (2018)
• WNBA All-Rookie Team (2011)
• 2× WNBL Champion (2011, 2020)
• WNBL MVP (2011)
• 4× All-WNBL First Team (2010, 2011, 2018, 2020)

She also holds the record for most points in a WNBA game with Wilson.

1. 53 points: Liz Cambage (Dallas Wings) vs. New York Liberty, July 17, 2018.
2. 53 points: A'ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces) vs. Atlanta Dream, August 22, 2023.
3. 51 points: Riquna Williams (Tulsa Shock) vs. San Antonio Silver Stars, September 8, 2013.
4. 48 points: Maya Moore (Minnesota Lynx) vs. Atlanta Dream, July 22, 2014.
5. 47 points: Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury) vs. Houston Comets, August 10, 2006.
6. 47 points: Lauren Jackson (Seattle Storm) vs. Washington Mystics, July 24, 2007. 

Disappointingly for basketball fans, a Google search for Cambage now surfaces questions such as “How much has Liz Cambage made on OnlyFans?”, “Why did Liz Cambage leave the WNBA?”, “What is Liz Cambage doing now?” and “Why isn't Liz Cambage playing for Australia?”

Cambage said in 2021: “The amount of money I could be making off OnlyFans is crazy. What am I doing sitting here? It would need to be called something else though. If I was going to do something like that, like sell members only content, I’d build my own base. Why not?”

The last Google question is poignant – “Why isn't Liz Cambage playing for Australia?” – because her Opals career was equally outstanding. She played 36 times for the Opals at major international tournaments, averaging 18.2 points per game and 7.6 rebounds. She won bronze with the Opals at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, silver at the 2018 FIBA Women’s World Cup and gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

But after signing with the Sparks in 2022, Cambage said: "I'm living my best life. I'm supported. I'm protected on a level that the Opals or the Australian team never gave to me.

"My heart lies with those who want to protect me and those who want me to be the best I can be, and I never felt that in the Opals at all."

She didn’t last the season at the Sparks.

“It is with support that we share Liz Cambage’s decision to terminate her contract with the organisation,” Sparks Managing Partner Eric Holoman said late July 2022.

“We want what’s best for Liz and have agreed to part ways amicably. The Sparks remain excited about our core group and are focused on our run towards a 2022 playoff berth.”

The breakdown, insiders reported at the time, came from her not getting enough touches in the post, and a locker room bust-up that as Cambage was leaving said: “I can’t do this anymore. Best of luck to you guys.” 

Her Opals career had shattered in late 2021. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on December 4: “Cambage, one of the world’s most dominant players, was last month given a formal reprimand by an independent Basketball Australia integrity panel for her behaviour in a pre-Olympic warm-up game against Nigeria in Las Vegas, a penalty which basketball insiders thought was on the lighter side; she could also have been fined or suspended.

“The panel found Cambage guilty of prohibitive conduct on one charge in relation to her verbal and physical altercation with players on the Nigerian women’s team but cleared her of three other charges.”

Basketball Australia then asked Cambage via email if she was available for the Opals 2021 FIBA World Cup campaign in Australia.

She wrote on Instagram: “don’t you ever get sick of lying on my name? MY interest was and still is ZERO.”

Cambage was drafted by the Tulsa Shock in 2011 with the second pick. She played 33 games and became an All-Star despite: "I don't want to play at Tulsa, I've made that clear. They want to make me a franchise player, but I'm not going to the WNBA for that. I'm going there to learn and improve my game. But what can you do?"

She ended up playing for the Shock in 2013 after not returning to the WNBA following the 2012 Olympic Games, citing “exhaustion after playing for the national team”. It was her last season in the WNBA for five years. She spent 2013-18 playing in the WNBL and in China.

"I've been djing professionally since whoo, 6 years now I still feel like I'm a beginner," Cambage added.

"I'm still learning and growing every day. Music is my therapy, discovering new music is my therapy getting lost in a world."

Now 34, it’s highly Cambage’s basketball career has taken a back seat to her modelling and DJing career, leaving Australian basketball fans with a “what if” … possibly the greatest “what if” in Australian basketball history.

International Career – Tournament Averages

• ‍2020 – FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Bourges, France)
  Games: 3 │ PPG: 26.3 │ RPG: 11.0 │ APG: 1.7 │ EFF: 28.7
• 2019 – FIBA Women’s Olympic Pre-Qualifying Asian Tournament
  Games: 2 │ PPG: 16.5 │ RPG: 6.0 │ APG: 1.5 │ EFF: 18.5
• 2018 – FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup
  Games: 6 │ PPG: 23.8 │ RPG: 10.5 │ APG: 1.0 │ EFF: 28.5
• 2016 – Olympic Games (Women)
  Games: 6 │ PPG: 23.5 │ RPG: 10.3 │ APG: 1.2 │ EFF: 25.0
• 2012 – Olympic Games (Women)
  Games: 8 │ PPG: 13.6 │ RPG: 5.6 │ APG: 1.1 │ EFF: 15.8
• 2010 – FIBA World Championship for Women
  Games: 9 │ PPG: 13.6 │ RPG: 5.4 │ APG: 0.4 │ EFF: 12.6
• 2009 – FIBA Oceania Championship for Women
  Games: 2 │ PPG: 20.0 │ RPG: 6.0 │ APG: 1.0 │ EFF: 22.0

Total Opals Career Tournament Averages

Games: 36 │ PPG: 18.5 │ RPG: 7.6 │ APG: 1.0 │ EFF: 20.2

WNBA Career Pathway

• Apr 11, 2011: Drafted by the Tulsa Shock in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 2011 WNBA Draft.
• Apr 28, 2011: Signed a training camp contract with the Tulsa Shock.
• Feb 5, 2018: Signed with the Dallas Wings.
• May 16, 2019: Traded by the Dallas Wings to the Las Vegas Aces for Moriah Jefferson, Isabelle Harrison, a 2020 1st round pick (Megan Walker later selected), and a 2020 2nd round pick (Luisa Geiselsoder later selected).
• Apr 22, 2020: Signed with the Las Vegas Aces.
• Mar 12, 2021: Re-signed with the Las Vegas Aces.
• Feb 18, 2022: Signed with the Los Angeles Sparks.
• Jul 26, 2022: Waived by the Los Angeles Sparks.

WNBA Career – Full Per-Season Breakdown

2011 – Tulsa Shock‍

• Games: 33 │ MPG: 20.0 │ PPG: 11.5 │ RPG: 4.7 │ APG: 0.5 │ SPG: 0.8 │ BPG: 0.9 │ TOV: 2.4 │ FG: 4.1 │ FGA: 7.9 │ FG%: 51.1 │ 3P: 0.0 │ 3PA: 0.2 │ 3P%: 0.0 │ FT: 3.4 │ FTA: 4.3 │ FT%: 79.4

2013 – Tulsa Shock‍

• Games: 20 │ MPG: 25.0 │ PPG: 16.3 │ RPG: 8.3 │ APG: 1.1 │ SPG: 0.5 │ BPG: 2.4 │ TOV: 3.1 │ FG: 5.3 │ FGA: 9.5 │ FG%: 56.1 │ 3P: 0.0 │ 3PA: 0.0 │ 3P%: — │ FT: 5.7 │ FTA: 7.4 │ FT%: 77.6

2018 – Dallas Wings‍

• Games: 32 │ MPG: 29.5 │ PPG: 23.0 │ RPG: 9.7 │ APG: 2.3 │ SPG: 0.5 │ BPG: 1.7 │ TOV: 2.8 │ FG: 8.7 │ FGA: 14.8 │ FG%: 58.9 │ 3P: 0.4 │ 3PA: 1.2 │ 3P%: 32.4 │ FT: 5.3 │ FTA: 7.2 │ FT%: 73.8

2019 – Las Vegas Aces‍

• Games: 32 │ MPG: 25.2 │ PPG: 15.9 │ RPG: 8.2 │ APG: 2.1 │ SPG: 0.6 │ BPG: 1.6 │ TOV: 2.3 │ FG: 6.1 │ FGA: 12.2 │ FG%: 50.4 │ 3P: 0.1 │ 3PA: 0.4 │ 3P%: 16.7 │ FT: 3.6 │ FTA: 4.8 │ FT%: 74.8

2021 – Las Vegas Aces‍

• Games: 25 │ MPG: 23.8 │ PPG: 14.2 │ RPG: 8.2 │ APG: 1.3 │ SPG: 0.9 │ BPG: 1.6 │ TOV: 1.8 │ FG: 5.6 │ FGA: 10.3 │ FG%: 54.3 │ 3P: 0.2 │ 3PA: 0.6 │ 3P%: 35.7 │ FT: 2.8 │ FTA: 4.0 │ FT%: 71.0

2022 – Los Angeles Sparks‍

• Games: 25 │ MPG: 23.4 │ PPG: 13.0 │ RPG: 6.4 │ APG: 2.1 │ SPG: 0.6 │ BPG: 1.6 │ TOV: 2.3 │ FG: 4.7 │ FGA: 9.2 │ FG%: 50.9 │ 3P: 0.2 │ 3PA: 0.6 │ 3P%: 28.6 │ FT: 3.5 │ FTA: 4.4 │ FT%: 78.4

WNBA Career Averages

• Games: 167 │ MPG: 24.5 │ PPG: 15.8 │ RPG: 7.5 │ APG: 1.6 │ SPG: 0.7 │ BPG: 1.6 │ TOV: 2.4 │ FG: 5.8 │ FGA: 10.8 │ FG%: 53.9 │ 3P: 0.1 │ 3PA: 0.5 │ 3P%: 28.0 │ FT: 4.0 │ FTA: 5.3 │ FT%: 75.8
  

Liz Cambage's Basketball Career

• 2007–2008: Dandenong Rangers (WNBL), then moved to AIS (WNBL) — 4 games: 3.3 PPG; 3.0 RPG
• 2008–2009: AIS (WNBL, starting five) — 16 games: 14.6 PPG; 6.9 RPG; 1.6 BPG; FG 62.6%; 3PT 50%; FT 54.2%
• 2009–2010: Bulleen Melbourne Boomers (WNBL) — 24 games: 20.1 PPG; 9.7 RPG; FG 57.9%; 3PT 28.6%; FT 74.1%
• 2010–2011: Bulleen Melbourne Boomers (WNBL) — 24 games: 22.3 PPG (1st); 8.2 RPG (3rd); 1.6 APG; 2.7 BPG (1st); FG 59.9% (1st); FT 72.9%
• 2011: Drafted by Tulsa Shock (WNBA), Round 1 Pick 2
• 2011: Tulsa Shock (WNBA) — 31 games: 11.2 PPG; 4.6 RPG; FG 52.1%; FT 80.5%
• 2011–2012: Bulleen Melbourne Boomers (WNBL) — 21 games: 21.0 PPG (2nd); 10.3 RPG (1st); 1.2 APG; 2.5 BPG (2nd); FG 60.2% (1st); 3PT 37.5%; FT 69.7%
• 2012: Tulsa Shock (WNBA) — pre-season only
• 2012–2013: Zhejiang Far East (China WCBA) — 30 games: 36.2 PPG (2nd); 11.1 RPG (5th); 2.5 BPG (1st); FG 78.5% (1st); FT 79.8%
• 2013: Tulsa Shock (WNBA) — 20 games: 16.3 PPG; 8.3 RPG; 1.1 APG; 2.4 BPG (2nd); FG 56.1%; FT 77.6%; injured in September
• 2013–2014: Beijing Great Wall (China WCBA) — 30 games: 31.7 PPG (2nd); 9.7 RPG; 1.8 APG; 1.5 SPG; 1.3 BPG (4th); FG 74.2% (1st); 3PT 22.2%; FT 80.8%
• 2015–2016: Shanghai Baoshan Dahua (China WCBA) — 37 games: 26.4 PPG (2nd); 11.7 RPG (5th); 1.6 APG; 1.5 SPG; 1.8 BPG (1st); FG 69.8% (1st); 3PT 30.4%; FT 82.7%
• 2017–2018: Melbourne Boomers (WNBL) — 24 games: 23.1 PPG (1st); 10.4 RPG (2nd); 1.8 APG; 1.4 BPG (3rd); FG 62.0% (1st); 3PT 11.1%; FT 73.5%
• 2018: Dallas Wings (WNBA) — 33 games: 22.9 PPG (1st); 9.7 RPG (2nd); 2.4 APG; 1.7 BPG (4th); FG 60.8% (3rd); 3PT 31.6%; FT 73.5%
• 2018–2019: Shanxi Flame (China WCBA) — pre-season only
• 2019: Las Vegas Aces (WNBA) — 36 games: 16.8 PPG; 8.5 RPG (5th); 2.1 APG; 1.6 BPG; FG 52.3%; 3PT 23.1%; FT 76.2%
• 2019–2020: Shanxi Flame (China WCBA) — 15 games: 33.2 PPG (1st); 8.8 RPG; 1.8 APG; 1.9 BPG (2nd); FG 66.7%; 3PT 16.7%; FT 72.4%
• 2020: Las Vegas Aces (WNBA) — DNP
• 2020: Southside Flyers Dandenong (WNBL) — 15 games: 23.5 PPG (1st); 8.7 RPG (5th); 1.7 BPG (1st); FG 65.0% (3rd); 3PT 26.7%; FT 72.9%
• 2021: Las Vegas Aces (WNBA) — 30 games: 13.6 PPG; 7.8 RPG; 1.3 APG; 1.0 SPG; 1.4 BPG; FG 54.4%; 3PT 40.0%; FT 72.9%
• 2022: Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) — 25 games: 13.0 PPG; 6.4 RPG; 2.1 APG; 1.6 BPG (2nd); FG 52.3%; 3PT 28.6%; FT 78.4%
• 2022–2023: Maccabi Bnot Ashdod (Israel D1e) — 14 games: 19.0 PPG; 11.5 RPG (5th); 1.8 APG; 1.1 BPG (4th)
• 2023–2024: Sichuan JinQiang Chengdu (China WCBA) — 18 games: 23.1 PPG (5th); 11.3 RPG; 2.7 APG; 1.5 SPG; FG 68.0% (3rd); 3PT 36.0%; FT 76.3%
• 2024–2025: Sichuan Yuanda Meile Basketball Club (China WCBA) — 22 games: 18.3 PPG; 8.5 RPG; 1.9 APG; 1.5 SPG; FG 63.8%; 3PT 30.0%; FT 84.5%

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