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A’ja Wilson Was Benched In College. Now She’s An MVP.

It took a benching to turn A’ja Wilson into the basketball player she is today. The WNBA’s newly named Most Valuable Player was in her freshman year at South Carolina, in 2014, and her Hall of Fame coach didn’t like what she was seeing. “Her first game, she played terribly. I didn’t feel like she […]

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The Aces Don’t Need Threes To Win

The past decade of professional basketball featured an overwhelming buffet of stylistic changes built on one simple premise: Three is greater than two. At all levels, coaches and players discovered the ramifications of a mathematical truth we all learn as toddlers. By taking a step back on long jumpers, they can score more points and […]

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It’s Win Or Go Home This Week In The WNBA Playoffs

After a laser-fast WNBA regular season, the 2020 playoffs have arrived. The stakes are high, and almost cruel, this week: single-elimination doubleheaders Tuesday and Thursday ahead of the best-of-five semifinal series, which begin this weekend. On Tuesday night, the sixth-seeded Chicago Sky face the seventh-seeded Connecticut Sun. Then the five seed, the Phoenix Mercury, take […]

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Which Players Have A Shot At Becoming WNBA Rookie Of The Year?

Of all the WNBA awards, Rookie of the Year may have the most amorphous definition. Most Valuable Player tends to favor how well a player does at lifting her team, a nexus of individual accomplishment and team record. Most Improved Player is about measuring the distance from last year to this year. Sixth Woman is […]

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