someone who’s waitin’. To distract me:
Chris Pross has some SHOTS! Check the photos out here at Just Shootin’ Hoops.
What should we expect from Dream, Mercury, Mystics and Storm in the WNBA semifinals?
One WNBA semifinal pits two teams, top-seeded Seattle and No. 5 Phoenix, that have won five league titles between them. The other semifinal, between No. 2 Atlanta and No. 3 Washington, is a meeting of teams that have never won a championship. The Mystics, in fact, have never made it to the WNBA Finals. The Dream have reached the championship series three times, but they’re 0-9 in those games.
The current playoff format, which was implemented in 2016, essentially did away with conference affiliation. Since then, the top eight overall teams in the standings make the postseason and then are seeded according to record through each round. Yet that didn’t prevent traditional East versus West in the WNBA Finals, and that’s what we’ll get now.
New York Times: WNBA’s Stars of Old Are New Again, and Six Wins From a Title
Deadspin: WNBA Playoff Bracket 2018: Semifinals Matchups, TV, Live Stream Schedule
Nuts and Bolts Sports: WNBA Semifinals Preview
Bullets Forever: WNBA Playoffs 2018: Mystics vs. Dream game schedule, dates, times, and how to watch
News Tribune (aka AP Doug): Storm and Dream take similar approaches during week off
The Athletic: How the Storm can win a third WNBA championship
The Seattle Storm, who hadn’t posted a winning season since 2011, find themselves in an enviable position heading into Sunday afternoon’s playoff opener against the Phoenix Mercury.</span>
All the Storm need to do is win a pair of best-of-five series for a championship. The squad will be rested thanks to its 26-8 regular season, which landed Seattle a top seed in the WNBA playoffs, and with it a double-bye and automatic advancement to the semifinals.
High Post Hoops: Block Party: How Jessica Breland anchors the Atlanta Dream’s defense
Ben at HPH: WNBA playoffs semifinals preview podcast: Seattle Storm vs. Phoenix Mercury
Texas Sports: Former Women’s Basketball teammates to meet in WNBA Semifinals
Good question: Will Seattle’s lack of playoff experience hurt the Storm?
The Storm’s Natasha Howard isn’t surprised by her breakout season: “I had it in me the whole time’
Deadspin: Diana Taurasi Just Doesn’t Lose When It Matters
In case you missed this: Washington Mystics: An energetic and efficient LaToya Sanders is ready for a championship
In May, during Washington Mystics’ training camp, center LaToya Sanders was absolutely exhausted. And, not in the normal, we’ve-been-going-lights-out-for-two-straight-hours way. The practice had just started, she was only doing layups, and she already felt like she was going to pass out. She knew something was wrong.
She alerted the Mystics’ coaching staff and trainers to her sickness, and immediately went in for a battery of tests. Soon, she had a diagnosis: anemia.
Space, it’s an issue (if we don’t raise revenue/fanbase) Multiple Teams Forced To Relocate, Losing Their Home-Court For The Playoffs. Cristhian Plasencia takes a closer look.
Hashtag Basketball: Record Breaker: How Courtney Vandersloot Rewrote the WNBA History Books in 2018
Fansided: THE WNBA IS EVOLVING RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES
Early in an Aug. 14 game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the New York Liberty, Candace Parker did something she does all the time, something she has been doing since she was named the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year and MVP back in 2008. It was remarkable on its own terms and unremarkable for her — a perfect encapsulation of not just how stars like Parker have changed the nature of women’s basketball, but of how the women’s game is opening onto a new stylistic future.
Have you listened? @NoCometsWNBA podcast on iTunes.
WNBAInsidr: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
Entrepreneur: WNBA President Lisa Borders Shares Why She Believes ‘Failure Is Not Fatal, It’s Feedback’
Ebony: WNBA Star Skylar Diggins Calls Out Basketball’s Gender Wage Gap
Hoops Happening: Thrilling start of WNBA playoffs leaves us wanting more early-round games – I understand where folks are going, but how about a mini – reality check: Two blowouts.
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I cannot imagine high school locker rooms are really comfortable for anyone. Thinking back to the many hours I spent in my own high school’s locker room, I’m flooded with memories of the awful smell, the body insecurity that came along with being surrounded by the school’s most athletic girls, the constant yelling of inside jokes.
I also remember in great detail the chipped, blue-grey paint color of the concrete floor, because I was looking at it pretty much the entire time I was in there.
Growing up queer in a small town, I came out only to my closest friends. However, in true small town fashion, more and more people seemed to know this very intimate detail of my life every day – whether I wanted them to or not.