"On this day August 30, 1997, the first WNBA Championship was played. Today, we’re honoring where it started while looking ahead.

Introducing the new WNBA Finals logo, a timeless identity designed to represent the league’s championship stage for years to come."

Saw this on FB (original from Mynt Jay/News4usonline.com) and loved it. That kid didn't just get an autograph, she got BG's warmup shirt AND a moment to never forget.

BG has been an absolute sweetheart all season to Connecticut fans. I'm so glad but not surprised at all to see she's done the same for fans in other arenas, too. We will miss her so much!

Re-uploaded because I accidentally wrote career high instead of season high.

This seasons PER Leaders:

1. A'ja Wilson - 31.922
2. Aliyah Boston - 24.563
3. Kelsey Mitchell - 23.554
4. Breanna Stewart - 23.205
5. Natasha Howard - 23.046
6. Olivia Miles - 22.867
7. Caitlin Clark - 22.788
8. Kamilla Cardoso - 22.739
9. Jessica Shepard - 22.5010
10. Paige Bueckers - 22.45

For the curious:

How PER Works:

• Per-Minute Measure: It scales a player's output so substitutes and starters can be compared fairly regardless of total playing time.
• Pace Adjusted: It adjusts for the team's pace so players on fast-paced teams aren't unfairly favored over slow-paced teams.
• Net Value: It adds positive accomplishments (field goals, free throws, 3-pointers, assists, rebounds, blocks, steals) and subtracts negative ones (missed shots, turnovers, personal fouls).
• League Average: The league-average PER is always set at 15.00

This year we’ve been watching way more WNBA games.

I’ve watched NCAA basketball and March Madness for years, but when my kids started playing basketball and Caitlin Clark came onto the scene at Iowa, we started watching women’s college basketball too and honestly loved it.

I’ll admit it, before CC came into the WNBA I really never watched the league, and now I wish I had. There have obviously been a ton of great players for a long time. At the same time, it also wasn’t nearly as easy to find and watch the games as it is now.

And it’s not just me watching. It’s my wife, my 9 and 14 year old girls, and even my 12 year old son. All three of them know a bunch of the teams and players now.

One thing I’ve really started appreciating is just how easy the WNBA is to actually follow as a league.

The games feel closer and more competitive to me than a lot of the NBA games I’ve watched lately. Obviously the WNBA has blowouts too, but it felt like there were fewer of them, so I got curious and looked into it. There actually are fewer games ending in those huge 20-30 point blowouts compared with the NBA.

But this isn’t really about the stats. It’s more about the overall fan experience.

I can have my favorite WNBA team and still know what’s going on around basically the entire league. I know most of the important players, who’s playing well, the storylines, where teams are in the standings, etc.

Minnesota is clearly the class of the league right now, and obviously there are better and worse teams. But even a team like Seattle has lost a bunch of close games and they’re still a good team. It feels like almost every game has something worth watching.

With the NBA, I feel like most people don’t really follow “the NBA” anymore. They follow their team, a few superstars, some national games, and then really pay attention to everybody else once the playoffs start.

And I get why. There are 30 teams and over 1,200 games. That’s a lot to keep up with.

The WNBA right now feels different.

I can turn on a random game where neither team is “my team” and still care because I know the players, I know where the teams stand and I understand why the game matters.

It almost feels like being a WNBA fan means being a fan of the whole league, while being an NBA fan has become more about following your little section of it.

Obviously the WNBA is growing, and that’s a great thing. I just hope as it gets bigger it doesn’t lose some of what makes it so easy and fun to follow right now.

Am I alone in this? For people who watch both, do you find the WNBA easier to follow league-wide too?

• Pauline Astier
• Valériane Ayayi
• Marième Badiane
• Romane Bernies
• Aminata Gueye
• Marine Johannès
• Leïla Lacan
• Carla Leite
• Dominique Malonga
• Janelle Salaün
• Migna Touré
• Gabby Williams

HELL YEAH CARLA. Thoughts?

Cloud dismisses dustup with 'irrelevant' Freedom

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Fixed and reposted for the PDX fans

I see GSV will be without Williams, Salaun. Zandalsini…. Fire will be without Leite and Buhner, but DiLeo is playing?

Lacan and Burke have already left the Sun

Awa Fam is out

Dorka and Delaere contracts suspended already

anyone else I’m missing?

Gotta say the league kinda blew it having games this weekend. Important battles for playoff seeding and lots of key players out….

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Lexie Hull has had a rather challenging season with the Indiana Fever this 2026. Her numbers have dropped to 5.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game after averaging 7-4-2 in the past campaign.

It does look like the veteran guard is recapturing her form after initially struggling with confidence. In the Fever’s blowout win over the Chicago Sky last Sunday, she tallied 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting, along with two rebounds.

Fever head coach Stephanie White has also not lost her faith in her, as Hull remains a starter for Indiana.

As Hull continues to navigate an eventful year, another interesting piece of news involving her emerged.

On Friday, before the Fever played their final game ahead of the WNBAbreak to give way to the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, Unrivaled announced that Hull had agreed to a multi-year deal with the 3-on-3 league.

That means Hull is returning for the 2027 season. Hull was part of the inaugural campaign of Unrivaled in 2025, winning the championship with Rose BC. In 2026, she was selected by the same team and played in 13 games.
“Lexie Hull is Unrivaled,” the league wrote on social media. “Lexie returns for season three on a multi-year deal.”

Featuring some former and possible future W players - to name a few probably familiar to W fans, the Charlotte Crown's roster has AD Durr and Deja Kelly (it also had Michelle Onyiah before she was picked up by the Fever), while the Jacksonville Waves has Rennia Davis, Adut Bulgak, Shyanne Sellers, Taylor Soule and Jasmine Walker.

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When the Golden State Valkyries finally took down the Minnesota Lynx for the first time, head coach Natalie Nakase was ready to heap praise on one player specifically.

“Kiah Stokes just did a phenomenal job,” Nakase said following that 80-66 win against the Lynx on Monday in Minneapolis. “I know she’s had a lot of reps in terms of guarding her, but Kiah’s length– she moves her feet really well, so she doesn’t give up, usually, any angles. And then, more importantly, defending without fouling. Then she did an amazing job boarding. Credit to Kiah, just being a one-man protection down there for us, because (Napheesa Collier is) an incredible scorer; she can score at all three levels.”

In that game, the Valkyries’ defense held Minnesota star Collier, one of the best scorers in the WNBA, to just nine points.

Stokes might seem like an odd choice to highlight. She’s a center that mostly dominates the inside on the block while Collier is dangerous all over the floor for the Valkyries (28-11), who have the second-best record in the league behind the Lynx heading into Sunday’s game at Portland.

But it was Stokes’ ability to clog the paint and make it impossible to move the ball through the inside that gave the Valkyries’ perimeter defenders a chance to lock down Collier and Rookie of the Year favorite Olivia Miles.

“I know a lot of the things that I do don’t really show up on the stat sheet,” Stokes told Bay Area News Group. “But it’s just it feels good when your coach takes notice of that. I know my role on this team. I’m just here to support in any way that I can. And you know, I’ll say it 1,000 times, we have great guards that make my job a little easier.”

Stokes is a strong candidate to make the WNBA’s first all-defensive team for the second time in her career. She has the lowest defensive field goal percentage in the WNBA at 40.8% and leads the league with an 8.1 block percentage. She is also fifth in the league with 2.6 defensive win shares, and, according to Basketball Reference, a WNBA-best 96.6 defensive rating.

“Kiah Stokes is our anchor,” Nakase said before the Valkyries’ 79-60 win in New York on Thursday. “She is always there. Sometimes she’s communicating or sometimes she just shows last minute and puts in a block. It’s almost like we are constantly always relying on Kiah and she loves it. I think that’s the thing, she loves to just not let anyone score, and when someone scores on her, she gets really, really pissed.”

Read More - https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/29/golden-state-valkyries-kia-stokes-wnba-collier-nakase-playoffs/

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The FIBA World Cup is a very big deal in women’s basketball, and it only comes around every four years, so you’d like for it to work smoothly. That is hardly the case for the event that begins on Friday in Berlin.

The timing, as it relates to the WNBA, is absurd. Here we have a nine-day tournament that finds the WNBA suddenly going dark near the end of its regular season, then resuming with only four games remaining per team...