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Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever may be out for the year due to injury, but she is not gone away. She is very much in the limelight and relaxing by the pool during her rehab stint. Recently, notorious sports commentator Skip Bayless felt the need to refer to Cunningham as a “clout chaser”. “Sophie […]

As the 2025 WNBA season nears its conclusion, Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers has strengthened her case for Rookie of the Year with another milestone in her debut campaign. The league announced Wednesday that Bueckers was named WNBA Rookie of the Month for August. ClutchPoints’ Joey Mistretta reported she averaged 20.3 points, five assists and […]

The New York Liberty are headed to the WNBA Playoffs. If you’re a Liberty fan and you want that to be the extent of the discussion around the team right now, you could be forgiven. It was another bad one for New York on Tuesday in a season that has become defined by underwhelming performances. […]

The Chicago Sky have not had the 2025 season they hoped for. Chicago is on a four-game losing streak and sitting in the basement with a 9-30 record. It did not help losing Courtney Vandersloot for the season back in June. Now one Sky player wants to make sure the team reloads with new talent […]

If you have to do rehab for a season-ending injury, why not live it up as Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham is doing? She took to her Instagram Stories to reveal the location of her rehab. Cunningham shared a picture of her bikini-clad body poolside. “You are looking at where I’m making our trainers do […]

The New York Liberty have fallen apart during the second half of the 2025 WNBA season. New York is on a two-game losing streak after their 66-58 defeat against Golden State on Tuesday night. The Liberty are understandably frustrated with how they’ve played with the playoffs just around the corner. New York punched its ticket […]

SAN FRANCISCO– It took four tries, but the Golden State Valkyries took down the New York Liberty, in a hard-fought 66-58 win at home for their fourth win in a row. In a game where offense was hard to come by in the second half, the Valkyries held onto the steady play of Temi Fagbenle […]

The Indiana Fever suffered another critical defeat after bowing to the Phoenix Mercury, 85-79, on Tuesday at PHX Arena. The Fever, who are still without star guard Caitlin Clark, fell to the eighth spot in the team standings with a 21-20 record. The Fever have now lost four of their last six games and are […]

PHOENIX– DeWanna Bonner knows the ups and downs of a WNBA season. She also knows the ups and downs of a Phoenix Mercury season. From being a part of two WNBA championship-winning teams to some forgettable seasons, she’s seen everything. Because of that, her perspective on the game is as clear as the Phoenix sky […]

The Phoenix Mercury hosted the Indiana Fever on Tuesday at PHX Arena, with serious implications for the playoffs at stake, especially for the visitors. It was a close encounter in the opening quarter, before Alyssa Thomas and the Mercury clamped down on defense in the second period, while also outscoring the Fever, 29-16. Phoenix went […]

SAN FRANCISCO–  It’s no surprise Natalie Nakase has the Golden State Valkyries close to clinching a playoff birth. She comes from one of the most impressive coaching trees in professional basketball, with championship-winning coaches Tyrone Lue, Doc Rivers, and Becky Hammon as her mentors. But of all her talented mentors, the one Nakase has thought […]

Indiana Fever fans are desperate for clarity. They have listened to vague Caitlin Clark injury updates for two and a half months now. Since no concrete timeline was ever established, many were optimistic that the 2024 All-WNBA First-Team selection could return before the end of the regular season and help the squad enjoy a momentous […]

The New York Liberty will once again be shorthanded on Tuesday night when they face the Golden State Valkyries in a crucial game for playoff positioning. Sabrina Ionescu will miss her third straight game with a left toe injury, head coach Sandy Brondello confirmed before the game. Brondello added that she is hopeful her guard […]

PHOENIX– Sami Whitcomb is all aboard the Alyssa Thomas for MVP train. The Phoenix Mercury sharpshooter has experienced the greatness up close this season and hasn’t seen anything like it. With the Mercury securing a spot in the WNBA playoffs and fighting for a higher seeding, Thomas’s impact has been unparalleled. The consistency of breaking […]

New York Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello likes to tell her team to “control the controllables.” Unfortunately for her, a lot of the misfortune that has befallen New York during its first-ever title defense has been decidedly uncontrollable. Injuries have ravaged the Liberty in a way no one could have reasonably anticipated. The Liberty have […]

The Indiana Fever have stumbled over the second half of the season as Caitlin Clark has sat out most of the way with a groin injury. But with playoff positioning at stake, Clark appears to have taken another step closer to a return. As the Fever get set to play the Phoenix Mercury on Tuesday, […]

The Dallas Wings were never going to be championship contenders this season and their recent spate of injuries have made it hard for the team to even take some momentum into the offseason. That task just got tougher, not just because of their 96-71 loss to the Minnesota Lynx on Monday, but also for even […]

The Seattle Storm came to the 2024-25 WNBA season with plenty to prove. The team last won a playoff series back in 2022 despite having an abundance of talent in their ranks consistently. As expected, Nneka Ogwumike(18.2 points, seven rebounds) and Skylar Diggins(15.6 points, six assists), who have 17 All-Star appearances between them, have led […]

Just weeks after her season-ending injury, Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham is in a bikini with her knee brace and living life once again. A video has surfaced of Cunningham lip-syncing and dancing to Reneé Rapp’s “I Think I Like You Better When You’re Gone” in a bikini. A bikini and a knee brace are […]

The Indiana Fever are in a precarious spot with just a few games left before the playoffs. They are holding on to the seventh place with a 21-18 record after suffering a crucial loss to the Golden State Valkyries on Sunday. It’s the Fever’s third defeat in five games, and with the competition leveling up […]

Phoenix Mercury center Natasha Mack is playing some of the best basketball of her career. In the last two games against the Chicago Sky and New York Liberty, she’s averaging 11.0 rebounds, 9.0 points, and 4.5 blocks. Those numbers are mighty impressive for the second-year center. While Mack has enjoyed her clean-up role with the […]

Natisha Hiedeman made impressive WNBA history off the bench in the Minnesota Lynx’s matchup against the Dallas Wings on Monday night. In 30 minutes of action, Hiedeman delivered an excellent stat line. She finished with 20 points, 10 assists and three rebounds. She shot 7-of-13 from the field, including 4-of-5 from beyond the arc, and […]

The Connecticut Sun made franchise history for the wrong reasons after their matchup against the Atlanta Dream on Monday night. Going into the game, the Sun had 29 losses and counting. They have struggled throughout the course of the 2025 season, being at the bottom of the league standings for quite some time. However, they […]

There are not a lot of better scenarios for a team to still be competing for the title after winning it the previous year. The New York Liberty’s situation is slightly different because they have been the WNBA Champions for two seasons running, and find themselves in the reckoning to make it a hat-trick of […]

The sorors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. have just received some disappointing news. The long-awaited pink and green version of Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson’s signature sneakers, the Nike A’One, won’t be hitting stores anytime soon. In a recent interaction on Threads, Wilson revealed that the pink and green pair of A’One’s are […]

PHOENIX– One 3-point shot by Phoenix Mercury center Kathryn Westbeld with 6:15 left in the fourth quarter and a seven-point lead might not have seemed that big of a deal. But it mattered more than some ought to admit in the Mercury’s 80-63 win over the New York Liberty. The shot came right after Liberty […]

SAN FRANCISCO– The Golden State Valkyries completed their season series sweep of the Indiana Fever in a comfortable 75-63 win on the back-end of a back-to-back. With the win, the Valkyries leapfrogged the Fever and the Seattle Storm to the sixth seed in the conference. And in a game that dragged on due to multiple […]

SAN FRANCISCO– It’s no secret the WNBA is suffering from a league-wide injury problem this season. According to The IX Basketball’s WNBA injury tracker, over 117 players have missed 901 games this season, surpassing the numbers from 2024. And the Golden State Valkyries in particular are no strangers to that issue. The Valkyries have had […]

LOS ANGELES – While the Los Angeles Sparks have not yet been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, they face an uphill climb down the stretch of the regular season. The Sparks kept their postseason hopes alive on Sunday following their 81-78 win against the Washington Mystics, and with the second game of a back-to-back looming […]

Kelsey Plum came through big for the Los Angeles Sparks in their matchup against the Washington Mystics on Sunday night. In 33 minutes of action, Plum finished with a stat line of 18 points, seven assists and four rebounds. She shot 4-of-9 from the field, including 3-of-6 from beyond the arc, and 7-of-8 from the […]

The Los Angeles Sparks bounced back from a 76-75 loss to the Caitlin Clark-less Indiana Fever last Friday by scoring an 81-78 victory over the visiting Washington Mystics at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday. Among those who put together a solid individual performance against the Mystics was veteran forward Dearica Hamby. The former […]

The Dallas Wings have eight players listed on the injury report for Monday night’s game against the Minnesota Lynx. Paige Bueckers is among the Wings listed on the injury report. She was mentioned on other injury reports in recent action due to an illness, but Bueckers is being listed on Monday’s report with a left […]

Kiki Iriafen etched herself in the rookie record books following the Washington Mystics’ matchup against the Los Angeles Sparks on Sunday night. In 27 minutes of action, Iriafen finished with a stat line of 22 points and 13 rebounds. She shot 8-of-20 from the field, including 1-of-1 from beyond the arc, and 5-of-6 from the […]

The Dallas Wings will play the Minnesota Lynx in a road clash on Monday night. On Sunday, the Wings released their injury report for the game. Injuries continue to be a problem for the Wings, as eight players are listed on the report. Dallas Wings’ injury report for Lynx game: pic.twitter.com/3VPDlYsGRC — Joey Mistretta (@JoeyMistretta_) […]

With just two weeks remaining in the 2025 WNBA regular season, the Seattle Storm are on track to sneak into the back end of the playoffs. However, before beginning postseason play, head coach Noelle Quinn has a lot to address with her team if they are going to have any success. As August comes to […]

The Indiana Fever have been hit hard by injury issues this season, including a major blow with star guard Caitlin Clark. While three players in Sophie Cunningham, Aari McDonald and Sydney Colson are out of the year, Clark’s status is a little more uncertain. She’s currently dealing with a groin injury as well as a […]

Chicago Sky franchise star Angel Reese has been in the headlines since her days as an LSU Tiger and now that she’s making history in the WNBA, the fastest player to 500 points and 500 rebounds is building her own empire over at Reebok. After recently making history once again and unveiling her debut signature […]

The Los Angeles Sparks have made some huge strides forward during the 2025 WNBA season. The addition of Kelsey Plum, and a healthy Cameron Brink, have made the Sparks a dangerous team. Los Angeles is not yet a superpower in the Western Conference, but they are finally showing signs of becoming a competitive team very […]

It’s been a trying year for the Connecticut Sun as they entered the first season of a rebuild. But as the regular season winds down, the Sun’s young core has shown some promise. But the Sun were dealt a tough blow this week when it was revealed that veteran guard Bria Hartley had suffered a […]