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The Indiana Fever got their second consecutive win on Thursday with a 92-90 win against the Chicago Sky. They were coming off what had been their best win of the season on Tuesday against the Washington Mystics. While the Fever may have a 4-6 record, there have been encouraging signs and reasons for optimism. This […]

The Washington Mystics have gotten off to an inconsistent start to the 2023 WNBA season with a record of 5-4. For a team with solid playoff aspirations, they’ve just been treading water so far. They’re coming off their worst loss of the season, a blowout against the Indiana Fever, after having won back to back […]

The Phoenix Mercury have been one of the more disappointing teams of the 2023 WNBA season so far. Although they have been navigating the absence of starting point guard Skylar Diggins-Smith who is currently out on maternity, they have enough talent on the team to make some noise. They began the season on an emotional […]

The Dallas Wings have been hit with the injury/absence bug to start the 2023 WNBA season. They have been without prized offseason trade acquisition Diamond DeShields and 2023 first round draft pick Lou Lopez Senechal since the start of the season. Both players are dealing with knee injuries and are expected to miss significant time. […]

The Vegas Golden Knights captured their first Stanley Cup title on Tuesday night, the city’s second consecutive year with a championship after the Las Vegas Aces won the WNBA title last year. The win prompted plenty of congratulatory messages on social media. One of those messages came from President Joe Biden, who tweeted his applause […]

The Phoenix Mercury have not done well as a team this season, but their two top players have been recognized individually. Center Brittney Griner and guard Diana Taurasi are among the top-30 vote getters in the first return of fan votes for the 2023 WNBA All-Star Game. Griner is ranked No. 3 with 28,387 votes. […]

The Indiana Fever had a lot of eyes on them to start the 2023 WNBA season largely due to the addition of South Carolina star Aliyah Boston. Boston has certainly lived up to the hype in the early weeks of the season and is looking the part of the franchise player she was billed as. […]

The Dallas Wings suffered their first loss at home this season, 79-61, on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Sparks. After winning two consecutive games, the Wings have now lost two games in a row. They’ve been an average team so far this season as they navigate a new head coach in Latricia Trammell and some […]

The Chicago Sky have been dealing with a short-handed roster for the first few weeks of the 2023 WNBA season. Two players who were expected to be key rotation players in second-year wing Rebekah Gardner and rookie Morgan Bertsch both suffered injuries early in the season and are currently sidelined. Ruthy Hebard is currently out […]

The Minnesota Lynx signed former Indiana Fever forward Emily Engstler to a contract, the team announced in a Wednesday tweet. “Welcome to the squad, Emily,” the Lynx wrote. Emily Engstler, the former No. 4 pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft, played in 35 games and started in six for the Fever during the 2022 season. The 6-foot-1-inch forward […]

Candace Parker faced retirement rumors prior to the 2023 WNBA season. At 37-years old, nobody would have blamed her for calling it a career. After all, she’s already considered to be one of the best players of the past generation, and has an impressive analyst career in the works. Parker ultimately decided to return and […]

PHOENIX — The Mercury lost their third game in four contests Tuesday against the Seattle Storm. It is not how the team expected to open its season. Phoenix has legendary guard Diana Taurasi,  much-improved guard Sophie Cunningham and Brittney Griner, who returned from Russian imprisonment to play in the WNBA this season. Not only did […]

PHOENIX — Mercury center Brittney Griner suffered a hip injury and did not return in the second half of the team’s 83-69 loss to the Seattle Storm. Griner appeared to suffer the injury in the first quarter. She did not check in for the final six minutes of the second quarter and did not start […]

NBA legend Dwyane Wade is rumored to be looking at the direction of the WNBA in a potential pursuit of a business venture in the league, particularly with the Chicago Sky. The former Miami Heat star showed up at Tuesday’s practice of the Sky and spent most of the time together with Sky principal owner […]

New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu has been downgraded to doubtful for Tuesday’s game against the Atlanta Dream, according to a Tuesday tweet from Winsidr Senior Writer Myles Ehrlich. “Sabrina Ionescu has been downgraded to DOUBTFUL (L. Hamstring) for tonight’s game against the Dream @Winsidr,” wrote Ehrlich. She was initially listed as “questionable” before Tuesday’s game. Center […]

Details of Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner’s alleged harassment at a Dallas airport on Saturday by YouTuber Alex Stein were recently revealed in a police report obtained by ESPN. Stein allegedly pushed a Mercury security personnel in an attempt to get to Griner, before the YouTuber was promptly shoved against a wall by the security […]

The Chicago Sky went through a slew of changes to the roster during the last WNBA offseason, one of which was the loss of Candace Parker to the Las Vegas Aces. When everything was said and done and the 2023 WNBA season was underway, the Sky were left with just one starter from the 2021 […]

Sue Bird’s time in the WNBA has come to an end and on the day when everyone in Seattle celebrated her career in a retirement ceremony, Megan Rapinoe and Macklemore showed up to show the legendary Seattle Storm star nothing but love. “Congratulations on like, arguably the best career that anyone has ever had in […]

Brittney Griner’s Phoenix Mercury teammate, Brianna Turner, said the team’s incident with a YouTube personality at a Dallas airport this past week was a “huge disappointment.” “It was startling to show up to the airport to have people waiting at your gate to just totally [disrupt] your day and follow you around the airport, shouting […]

Phoenix Mercury legend Diana Taurasi told Brittney Griner to “just breathe” after she was heckled by a YouTube personality at a Dallas airport. “The safety of everyone comes first,” Taurasi said, per ESPN’s M.A. Voepel. Griner was confronted by Alex Stein, who hosts the right-wing show “Prime Time With Alex Stein.” He has confronted politicians […]

Sue Bird, one of the most prolific figures in WNBA history, got her long-awaited final send-off from Seattle Storm fans during her jersey retirement ceremony on Sunday at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena. Bird’s No. 10 was lifted into the rafters, making her the second Storm player to have her number retired, joining Lauren Jackson, Bird’s […]

The Minnesota Lynx have not gotten off to a good start to the 2023 WNBA season and they’ve already received bad news about their prized lottery pick, Diamond Miller. They did have something to cheer about on Sunday though as they pulled off a comeback from being down double-digits against the Los Angeles Sparks at […]

A stranger harassed Brittney Griner at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport when the team grabbed food. Phoenix Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard does not want this to happen again. She urged more chartered flights, and even Diana Taurasi supported the sentiments. Vanessa Nygaard claimed that this avoids future run-ins with outsiders, per Michael Marot of AP […]

Coming back from a major injury is never easy for professional athletes. Seattle Storm veteran guard Kia Nurse knows that all too well. Kia Nurse suffered an ACL injury during the 2021 WNBA playoffs against the Las Vegas Aces in Game 4 of the Western Conference Semifinals. The injury kept her out of the 2022 […]

After Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner was involved in an airport altercation over the weekend, the uproar from around the league has been ferocious and the WNBPA is demanding change to the travel policy. On Saturday morning, Griner and her team were accosted by a YouTube agitator known for harassing politicians. Alex Stein is a […]

The jersey retirement ceremony for former Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird sent Storm fans into a frenzy on Sunday. HUGE ovation for Sue Bird as she enters the arena for her Seattle Storm jersey retirement 🙌 (via @seattlestorm)pic.twitter.com/YA88WuJA4m — ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) June 11, 2023 Bird, the former first-overall pick in the 2002 WNBA Draft, built […]

Breanna Stewart is the latest WNBA star to call for more protection for Brittney Griner after the Phoenix Mercury center was harassed at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport by a right-wing social media provocateur. “I mean I think that player safety should be first and foremost and everyone was aware that BG coming back to the […]

After being harassed by a Blaze Media YouTube personality in the Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport on Saturday, Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner has once again become the focal point in a call for player safety. The Mercury would release a statement about the incident that occurred between Griner and Alex Stein, a Dallas native that […]

The Dallas Wings have been one of the better teams in the WNBA to start the 2023 season with a record of 5-3 and having won two consecutive games. They are led by Arike Ogunbowale who is one of the league’s blossoming superstars. But Ogunbowale has had some help in the form of a career […]

The Washington Mystics haven’t exactly been burning down the nets to start the 2023 WNBA season. Through their first seven games, they are 4-3 and are looking to get back to back wins against the Seattle Storm. While they have a roster that is certainly playoff caliber, they are also adjusting to having a new […]

The Seattle Storm have gotten off to a rocky start to the 2023 WNBA season with a 1-5 record. It was always going to be a tough year with growing pains due to having a very young and inexperienced roster in the wake of losing Breanna Stewart and Sue Bird. They made a recent roster […]

Brittney Griner had quite the encounter while making her way through the Dallas Airport Saturday morning. The WNBA earlier released a statement alleging that the Phoenix Mercury star was harassed. A video detailing the incident is now available to the public, courtesy of the man in question. Comedian and YouTuber Alex Stein recorded himself criticizing […]

The WNBA has released a statement after Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner was allegedly harassed at a Dallas airport on Saturday, via Josh Weinfuss. The league said the following in the statement, “As we gather additional information on today’s incident at the Dallas Airport, it has come to our attention that this was orchestrated by […]

The New York Liberty turned a lot of heads this offseason when they acquired Breanna Stewart and Courtney Vandersloot in free agency and traded for Jonquel Jones. As one of the proclaimed ‘super teams,’ they automatically became one of the early favorites to win the 2023 WNBA championship. With a win against the Atlanta Dream […]

The Atlanta Dream fell to 2-4 on to start the 2023 WNBA season as they dropped their second consecutive game, this one to the New York Liberty after losing to the Las Vegas Aces on June 2. Despite the uneven start, the Dream have been seeing another step forward in the development of budding star […]

Sisters Satou Sabally and Nyara Sabally will face each other for the first time as the New York Liberty host the Dallas Wings at Barclays Center this Sunday. They will be the eighth set of sisters to play against each other in the league’s 27-year history, from Heather and Heidi Burge in the early years […]

The Seattle Storm started out the 2023 WNBA season a little rocky at 0-4. They managed to get their first win of the season though against the Los Angeles Sparks in dramatic fashion coming back from being down 18 points early in the game. If they’re hoping to build off that momentum though, they’ll have […]

Las Vegas aces star A’ja Wilson is one of the best players in the WNBA. She continues to reach impressive feats, most recently scoring her 3,000th career point. Wilson stayed humble after reaching the 3,000-point mark though, posting a two-word tweet. big blessings 🤍 https://t.co/4MorHOB3tc — A'ja Wilson (@_ajawilson22) June 9, 2023 “big blessings,” Wilson […]

In the WNBA, teams are allowed to sign players to hardship contracts when they have only nine or less available players on the roster. For the Chicago Sky, that was their reality heading into Friday’s game on the road against the Los Angeles Sparks. They are facing injuries to Rebekah Gardner, Morgan Bertsch and Isabelle […]