Hoops star Elena Delle Donne is out, engaged

It's not news to former Delaware basketball standout Elena Delle Donne's family and friends that she has come out and is engaged to longtime partner Amanda Clifton.

But a lot of people are just now learning the news, thanks to an interview published in the August edition of Vogue.

"I've grown up in a family where I have the most unique sister in the world and we've always been taught to celebrate uniqueness," Delle Donne said, as reported by the Chicago Tribune. "It was easy for me to be who I am and hopefully others can be who they are as well."

The Vogue story, which isn't available online, reported that Delle Donne and Clifton got engaged on June 2.

"I decided I'm not at all going to hide anything," Delle Donne said in Rio. "The biggest thing is respecting Amanda's privacy as well. She's not on the stage, she doesn't need to be interviewed, and I don't want her to have to feel that way. As the future keeps moving on, I don't plan on having our relationship out in the public and all this media on it, but obviously there's excitement right now because people see it for the first time."