At first glance, the pecking order in the WNBA was pretty clear this season. Essentially, there were six teams with legitimate playoff campaigns, which we’ll measure with the shorthand of a positive regular-season net rating. On Sunday, four of those six played for the right to advance to the WNBA semifinals, and while the lower […]
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 […]
By the end of the third quarter in Tuesday night’s championship-clinching win for Breanna Stewart and the Seattle Storm, their opponents had the glassy-eyed look that’s become a familiar staple of Stewart’s foes at every level. Acceptance came in waves for the Las Vegas Aces as Stewart put up another double-digit point total in the […]
In the 2018 WNBA season, the Seattle Storm romped to a championship thanks to a stacked roster. But at the center of the team’s dominance was a pair of future Hall of Famers: the veteran point guard, Sue Bird, and the do-everything forward, Breanna Stewart. The Storm were, by net rating, 15.7 points better than […]
Depending on the lens you use when looking at the WNBA Finals, with Game 1 between the Seattle Storm and Las Vegas Aces set for Friday night, any of these statements can be true: Las Vegas is the favorite (top seed, won both regular-season meetings). Or Seattle is the favorite (2018 champs, largely intact after […]