The 2021 New York Liberty season ended on a high note: a playoff berth and a last second loss to the much better Phoenix Mercury. When the Liberty needed a win on the last game of the season to make the playoffs, the team came together and got it done. You might be wondering: “How did the Liberty even make it to this point?” Well, here are the top five moments of the Liberty’s 2021 season. Source ..read more

Could anyone beat the Connecticut Sun? That was the question going into last night’s first semi-final game between the Sun and the Chicago Sky. The Sun, winners of their last 14 games, seemed virtually untouchable. Add nine games of rest for the Sun, and on the other side, two intense playoff games and an early morning, commercial cross-country flight for the Sky, and it seemed like the Sun might... Source ..read more

For a team that had no business even being in the playoffs, the 12-20 8th seed New York Liberty showed up for their first postseason matchup since 2017. After trading leads all game, the Liberty were up 79-77 against the Phoenix Mercury with 1:29 minutes left in the 4th quarter. The possibility of a Liberty upset over the much better Mercury seemed to be becoming real. Source ..read more

Can the Mystics do it again? This is the question that faces the Mystics as they head toward their final two games of the season, against the New York Liberty on Friday and against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday. Last year, the Mystics went 5 of 6 in their final stretch of games following a 1-12 stretch, and snagged the 8th and final spot in the WNBA playoffs. The Mystics played Phoenix in the first... Source ..read more

The Atlanta Dream are coming off a tough loss to the Dallas Wings on Thursday 72-68. Courtney Williams led the Dream in scoring with 5 points on 11-23 shooting from the field. Monique Billings added 15 points of her own. Atlanta has dropped ten straight games and 13 of its last 14 outings. The losing streak, which began after a 73-69 win at home against New York on June 29, has dropped the Dream... Source ..read more

This isn’t a new topic. Commercial flights and the WNBA have gone hand and hand for decades now. If you search up the words “WNBA commercial planes,” you get an article from 2001 about the dream of getting these teams their own planes. The WNBA is a professional sports league. These players are travelling to games every single day on some pretty tight schedules, and then being expected to play at... Source ..read more

(Image Credit- Washington Mystics twitter) Is any team in the WNBA playing basketball as well as the Connecticut Sun right now? That’s a rhetorical question with a very clear answer: No. And it’s not even close. The Connecticut Sun, winners of their last nine games, played a depleted Washington Mystics team on Tuesday night and won the game in commanding fashion, 85-75. Although the Mystics kept... Source ..read more

(Image credit- Seattle Storm twitter) On Friday night, the Seattle Storm hosted the Chicago Sky in a matchup of WNBA title contenders. Seattle came into the game 18-8 and Chicago 13-12. However, the Sky came back to beat the Storm 73-69. Breanna Stewart hit a pair of free throws with over four minutes left in the first quarter for a 12-11 lead, and Seattle maintained the lead until Allie Quigley... Source ..read more

All week it had been building to this. Both Mike Thibault and Elena Delle Donne had confirmed that though she had not traveled with the Mystics for their road trip, when they returned it was possible she would be able to play. On August 21st, for the first time in two seasons, she was listed as “Probable” on the injury report. And then, on Sunday, August 22nd, after 682 days away, there she was... Source ..read more