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FRIDAY FEMALE STORY: Australian Opals co-captain Jenni Screen may have played her last WNBL game for Adelaide Lightning although new coach Jeremi Moule hasn’t ruled out her return.

Screen, 31, a 180cm off-guard and dual-Olympian, has not been offered a new contract for the 2014-15 WNBL season and is uncertain where he future lies.

“I am unemployed,” she told me today.

“I am looking overseas or considering getting into the real world if I don’t have a contract.

“I have other people to consider in my life. It’s not just about me anymore.”

Screen is married to former Boomers centre Neil Mottram and originally from Newcastle.

Other than her inaugural season in the league with the then-AIS team, she has played her entire WNBL career with Adelaide and made the city her home.

“I’m disappointed with Adelaide,” she said.

“I definitely would have liked to finish my career here.”

Screen said her agent had spoken with the Lightning and was informed the club did not wish to “insult her” with the paucity of the offer it could put to her.

“I would at least like to have had the opportunity to make that decision,” she said.

“If it was small, I could have viewed playing for Lightning as my second job and got on with it.

“The chances of my playing WNBL (now) are slim.

“Adelaide is my No.1 option and that isn’t going to come to fruition.

“Going back to Europe would almost be easier than playing against Adelaide.”

Screen said “beggars can’t be choosers” if an opportunity came up from Sydney Flames in her home state of NSW.

“Playing in Sydney might help me academically but over the years we (Adelaide) have had such a great rivalry with them it might be a challenge to play there.”

Screen said while she had not heard from Moule, she also had not contacted him.

“I’ve heard he is a good coach,” she said.

“Look, I’m very grateful I’ve been able to play for Adelaide for the past three years and was very well rewarded financially.

“I’m sure the budget this year has been cut astronomically but I would have looked at anything.

“If they threw something at me, I’d consider it.”

Then all is not lost, after all.

“I haven’t spoken with Jenni directly but I have spoken with her agent,” Moule said.

(Screen shares the same agent as recent Lightning signings Emma Langford and Alex Bunton.)

“I’ve told him we need to finalise our ‘bigs’ first, then work out what we have left to come back to him.”

The Lightning’s top priority is retaining triple-Olympian and 2014 WNBL All Star Five pick Laura Hodges.

“Once that’s done, we’d be looking to have a conversation then.

“We are working with a smaller budget.

“Emma (Langford), (Alex) Bunton and re-signing Laura were pretty big priorities.”

So the die may not fully be cast yet for Screen as a Lightning staple.

Unless the Flames move first.

WEST Coast has signed Logan Thunder shooter Sarah Graham.

The 2009 Rookie of the Year, Graham, 24, averaged 12.6ppg last season and should bolster what so far looks a frail roster.

With stalwart Melissa Marsh lost to retirement, Graham joins Waves returnees Shani Amos, Darcee Garbin, Kate Fielding, Mikayla Pirini and Jessie Edwards.

BY the way, I know this ISN’T Friday, as this week’s FFS was promised on Thursday for yesterday, but the Screen-Lightning story was worth chasing for another day.

TOMORROW: Take a trip back to May 29, 1969.