WNBA News
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WNBA: Storm go for back-to-back wins, something they have managed twice all year
Eight wins, thirty-one losses, and two separate 11-game skids That is Seattle’s season. So when the Storm host the Sparks on Sunday, the target is almost quaint: win two in a row. They have pulled it off twice since April. Wednesday gave them the first half of the equation. Flau’jae Johnson dropped 20 in a…
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WNBA: Wings chase seeding in last game before World Cup break
Three and a half games separate third from eighth That is the whole story of the Western race right now. Dallas sit eighth at 23-16, half a game back of the New York Liberty, with five to play and almost nothing decided. The Wings host the Connecticut Sun on Sunday in Arlington, and then the…
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WNBA: Carla Leite faces her old team with Valkyries riding a four-game streak
Five games left, and not one winning record among them Four straight wins. Three of them on the road, at Minnesota, at Connecticut, at Brooklyn. Golden State head to Portland on Sunday afternoon with the kind of momentum that makes a team wish the calendar would not stop, and the calendar is about to stop:…
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WNBA: Storm hunt a second straight win against the Sparks
Seattle sit at 8-31 and have won back-to-back games twice all season. Beat the Sparks today and they manage it a third time.
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WNBA: Wings chase a better seed before the break
Three and a half games separate the third seed from the eighth. Dallas host Connecticut with position on the line and a two-week World Cup shutdown waiting on the other side.
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WNBA: Mercury bury Toronto behind a season-best 15 threes
Fifteen from deep, and the old franchise mark was 13 Thirty-four attempts from behind the arc. Fifteen went down. Phoenix put 101 points on Toronto and never trailed, running out 101-69 winners over the Tempo. The three-point number is the one that stands out: a season high for a team whose previous best was 13.…
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WNBA: Aces bury Tempo behind Wilson’s 27, head into World Cup break rolling
Eighteen points off turnovers, and the night was over Toronto gave the ball away 16 times. Las Vegas turned that into 18 points. The Tempo managed two the other way. That single line explains a 93-73 result far better than anything else from Thursday night. A’ja Wilson put up 27. Jackie Young had 23 and…
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WNBA: Clark and Mitchell hang 68 on the Sun
Indiana were down nine after one quarter and won by twenty. Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell scored 34 apiece, and the Fever are back in a hosting seed.
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WNBA: Liberty limp toward the playoffs after 60-point night
Sixty points. At home. In late August. That is the sort of scoreline that follows a team into the postseason. The New York Liberty were beaten 79-60 by the Golden State Valkyries on Thursday night at Barclays Center, their lowest output of the year. The shooting numbers explain it. New York hit 30.2% from the…