WNBA teams at the bottom of the standings are running out of time for one last push at the No. 8 seed. (The more heated race centers around the single- and double-byes with even the No. 1 seed still up for grabs.) As the Indiana Fever sit 3.5 games back of the postseason with just…
As we eulogize contemporary legend Toni Morrison, we look to her body of work for hope and inspiration. While teaching a class, she once remarked, “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody…
There’s roughly 6:10 left in the third quarter of a must-see game between the Seattle Storm and the Las Vegas Aces. Speedy Storm guard Jordin Canada retreats to half-court after the initial set doesn’t create an advantage. She jets to her left around a Natasha Howard screen and penetrates the lane. Her patented lefty scoop…
The question of where All-WNBA center and 2018 scoring champ Liz Cambage would end up—or if she’d get dealt at all—hung over much of this WNBA offseason. The Las Vegas Aces finalized a deal last week to acquire Cambage, much to the delight of the team, head coach and president of basketball operations Bill Laimbeer,…
Liz Cambage dominated the WNBA in 2018 as we’ve never seen before in the league’s 22-year history, and there’s ample data to back it up. Cambage made a return to the WNBA and the franchise that drafted her—the Tulsa-Shock-turned-Dallas-Wings—in 2018 after four seasons out of the league. She set a WNBA single-game record with 53…
The past year was a whirlwind for the Dallas Wings. Liz Cambage elected to return to the WNBA after four seasons away. The club had a second star to pair with point guard Skylar Diggins-Smith, and they were in a position to nab a playoff bid at 14-10 with 10 games to play. They lost…