The Connecticut Sun, last season’s WNBA Finals runners-up, were a fairly fast team in 2019. They played at a pace of 78.7 possessions per 40 minutes, good for fourth in the league. This year, they’re even faster. They entered Tuesday night’s game playing at a pace of 83.2 possessions per 40 minutes. That rate would […]
Washington Mystics forward Emma Meesseman says she sees life “as a big adventure.” That’s part of why the Belgian native decided to play in the 2020 WNBA season in Bradenton, Florida. “I just want to do as much different stuff as possible in my career, and this is one of them.” This adventure for Meesseman […]
Normally, the WNBA has an offseason with two distinct parts. There’s Part 1: free agency, which begins in February. And there’s Part 2: the draft, held in April. This being 2020, of course, all the typical calendars have gone out the window, with tipoff moved from the originally scheduled date in May to July 25 […]
Game 5 of the WNBA Finals was defined by a battle of injured stars and a flurry of controversial calls. But the Washington Mystics were unfazed in the final few minutes of the fourth quarter as they pulled away to secure an 89-78 victory over the Connecticut Sun. For the first time in franchise history, […]
As Elena Delle Donne played through the searing pain of a herniated disk on Sunday, she clearly wasn’t her usual, multi-dimensional star self for the Washington Mystics. In Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, she took just six shots all afternoon, making a single, labored drive to the basket. But by the time that one […]