WNBA's Best: 5 Players working in prominent NBA roles

#2 Ruth Riley Hunter - Heat TV Studio & Radio Analyst

Ruth Riley Hunter was a WNBA first-round pick of the Miami Sol in 2001.

When the Miami Heat organization offered Ruth the position to serve as the team's radio analyst for home games and studio analyst for road television broadcasts in October, it was more or less a homecoming for her.

Miami is where she started her professional basketball career when she started playing for the Miami Sol. Though that stint didn't last long, it did leave an everlasting feeling of home in Miami for Ruth. She played in the WNBA for 13 seasons, the most recent one being in 2013.

According to Heat's Executive Vice President, she aced all her auditions to become the franchise's first female analyst in 31 seasons. Following her recruitment, there came an announcement from Adam Silver asking for increased hiring of women across the league. The significance of her inclusion into the Heat family was appreciated overwhelmingly.

''It's no longer a story to hire a woman,'' Riley Hunter said. ''It's the perspective and value and experience that matters.''