Angel Reese's Unrivaled season likely ends with injury, defensive player of year honors
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by USA TODAY Sports
4h ago
Angel Reese was named Unrivaled Defensive Player of the Year, shortly before the league announced she won’t play in Sunday's semifinal playoff game ..read more
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Courtney Vandersloot embracing change in her return to the Chicago Sky, but ‘it’s going to be the same old Sloot’
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by Chicago Tribune
14h ago
Courtney Vandersloot never really left Chicago. When she exited in 2022, the change was a necessity. The last two years with the New York Liberty lifted Vandersloot to a new level of competition. But part of her was always stuck on the Sky, the team that drafted her in 2011, where she met her wife, won her first title and grew into the person and player she is today. And this year, Vandersloot ..read more
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Here are four ways Unrivaled could change the WNBA
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by The Athletic
2d ago
Near the end of 2022, New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart took a meeting at a New York City steakhouse to hear an idea to change the landscape of professional women’s basketball. Stewart was preparing to spend part of another WNBA offseason abroad. Alex Bazzell, the husband of Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier, had seen his wife play multiple seasons overseas, too. He pitched Stewart on a business proposition to keep most WNBA stars in the U.S. during the winter months instead. Over red win ..read more
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Diana Taurasi and the challenge of saying goodbye and discovering what’s next
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by The Athletic
2d ago
PHOENIX — As Diana Taurasi recently boarded a flight to New York, her 7-year-old son, Leo, had a question. “Is retirement sad?” he said. In late February, Taurasi, a 20-year veteran of the Phoenix Mercury and widely viewed as one of basketball’s greatest talents and personalities, disclosed to Time that she had launched her last jump shot, talked her last trash. She was retiring from the sport she had played for most of her life. What that meant, however, was taking shape. And still is. “That wa ..read more
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Liberty's Breanna Stewart undergoes knee surgery, set to return for training camp
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by SNY
2d ago
Liberty star and two-time WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart went under the knife on Thursday but her availability for the upcoming season is not in doubt ..read more
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Diana Taurasi offers her version of short-lived idea with Sue Bird to join NY Liberty
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by AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
2d ago
Diana Taurasi spoke at her Phoenix Mercury retirement press conference about her and Sue Bird's idea to leave Phoenix Mercury and Storm for Liberty ..read more
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Breanna Stewart has arthroscopic surgery on right meniscus, AP source says
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by Associated Press
2d ago
Breanna Stewart had arthroscopic surgery on her right meniscus, a person familiar with the procedure told The Associated Press on Thursday. Stewart will be back for New York Liberty training camp, which opens on April 27, the person said. The two-time WNBA MVP, who helped New York wins its first league championship last season, posted photos on Instagram of herself in a hospital bed ..read more
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Diana Taurasi 'sad' to walk away from basketball, Phoenix Mercury. What's next?
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by USA TODAY Sports
2d ago
Diana Taurasi explained why she decided to retire after 20 years with the Phoenix Mercury ..read more
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Napheesa Collier, Chelsea Gray and Kayla McBride named to All-Unrivaled first team
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by USA TODAY Sports
2d ago
Naphessa Collier, Chelsea Gray and Kayla McBride are First Team All-Unrivaled. Rhyne Howard, Angel Reese and Skylar Diggins-Smith earned second team ..read more
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Napheesa Collier leaving her mark on and off the court
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by CNN
2d ago
WNBA superstar with the Minnesota Lynx, and 2x Olympic gold medalist, Napheesa Collier joins World Sport’s Coy Wire to discuss her new venture as a co-founder of the new 3-on-3 league Unrivaled ..read more
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