It is virtually impossible to find a proper comparison for Han Xu, the 6-foot-10, 22-year-old center for the New York Liberty. Not one person I interviewed could do it. A big who can shoot threes? Sure, but there’s big and then there’s big — Han is several inches taller than almost everyone who guards her, […]
The WNBA is back to kick off another season on Friday, and the FiveThirtyEight WNBA predictions are back as well, forecasting the outcome of each game and the season as a whole. This season projects to be a tight one, as our model sees three teams — the Connecticut Sun, Chicago Sky and Las Vegas […]
Well, as we promised, it’s been an epic WNBA offseason. We already covered the massive shift that took place in Los Angeles, with Liz Cambage, Chennedy Carter, Katie Lou Samuelson and Jordin Canada reshaping the look of the near-miss playoff team from 2021. But there was plenty of movement among the other WNBA contenders, too […]
The WNBA is a collection of the finest basketball talent in the world. Who wins and loses is determined by an almost endless collection of factors, a movable chessboard around a basketball court, skill and intellect and physicality in new and unpredictable permutations. Accordingly, I am here to boil down each of the league’s eight […]
Entering the season, FiveThirtyEight’s new Elo-based WNBA projections had the New York Liberty finishing 12th in the league, with just a 26 percent chance to make the playoffs and less than a 1 percent chance at winning it all. Six games into this 32-game season, it’s time to reevaluate. Elo now projects the Liberty at […]