Townsville guard Kelly Wilson might be happy to retire one match shy of a 350-game WNBL milestone, if it means the Fire can sweep the grand-final series.
The 16-season veteran enters the series against Melbourne Boomers, starting on Saturday in Townsville, on 347 games.
Townsville would need to split the first two matches in the best-of-three series for Wilson to get her milestone in what could be her final season.
"I'm willing to take one for the team and go 349, if that's the case," Wilson said on Tuesday.
Wilson, who won WNBL titles with Bendigo in 2013 and '14, missed much of last season with a fractured leg and there was talk then that might have been her last campaign.
She said retirement wasn't an issue she was thinking of during a grand-final week, but admitted the result could very well influence her decision.
"It would obviously be ideal to go out on a championship win, but it's not something I think of when I'm actively playing during the season," Wilson said.
"I guess it's how I feel after the season when I start kind of assessing that."
Former Opals guard Wilson leads her team with 4.86 assists per game, which ranks her sixth across the whole league.
She is part of a powerful Fire roster, who collectively have won more than a dozen WNBL titles.
Wilson, with a WNBL career spanning four clubs, won the 2003 rookie of the year award.
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