After the Washington Mystics beat the Chicago Sky on Sept. 8 to close out the regular season, Natasha Cloud still had some work to do. The Mystics point guard had appointed herself the “campaign manager” for teammate Elena Delle Donne’s push to win the WNBA Most Valuable Player award. (Her sworn duties include making goat […]
After more than three months of jockeying for position, four of the eight playoff-bound WNBA teams will begin their postseasons on Wednesday. As the No. 5 through No. 8 seeds, Chicago, Seattle, Minnesota and Phoenix will face off in two single-elimination games. The reward for the winners is another single-elimination game on Sunday against No. […]
It seemed easy enough to count out the Washington Mystics at different junctures during the WNBA playoffs. Elena Delle Donne’s knee injury looked flat-out brutal — and potentially season-ending — when it happened in Game 2 of the semifinals last week. Things appeared bleak when the Mystics were pushed to the brink of elimination after […]