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How Much Talent Is The WNBA Missing This Season?

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 […]

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The Mystics Kept Their Cool And Finally Captured A Title

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, […]

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Meet The Washington Mystics’ Not-So-Secret Weapon

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 […]

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