This will be via a Season-Ending Injury exception for Dantas. Steph White gets herself yet another big to randomly rotate through alongside Boston. #WNBA
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Ooh, tiempo muerto is a fun phrase for a timeout. Don't mind us, we're just gonna break for three minutes for death time.
A'ja Wilson teams now technically 0-2 in her 30s, by the way. Father Time is undefeated. #WNBA
In other news, I can't pick out many words in the broadcast of this game I'm watching, but 'el triple' is definitely coming up a lot. And I enjoy the sound of 'Kayla Tornton'. #WNBA
Full credit to Kiah Stokes for reaching the point where I no longer reflexively start to shout "No!" whenever she fires up a three. Still think she's a little too keen to fire away, but she's approaching league average. Heck of a jump from basically every other season of her career. #WNBA
Minnesota also just set a new league record for most threes by a starting lineup with a combined 18. #WNBA
Kayla McBride might be tearing up that multi-way tie (at 9) for most three-point makes in a game today. #WNBA
All the time Jess Shepard missed through injury in Minnesota, the basketball gods have a sick sense of humour deciding to injure her again while she's back there. Hopefully the Wings just being rightfully cautious. #WNBA
Still time for the Betts sisters to apply for a change of FIBA nationality and to fulfil their destinies as the heartbeat of the Great Britain national team for the next decade-plus...
Roster spot was opened up by temporarily suspending Luisa Geiselsoder yesterday, who left to join the German training camp before the World Cup. Assuming Geiselsoder is expected to return afterwards, someone would have to be waived at that point to get back down to 12. #WNBA
Sabreena Merchant@sabreenajm.bsky.social · 23h agoBig week for Jordan Harrison -- entered the Fire rotation for two games, and now she's on a standard contract in Portland.
This is the first of three games that Phoenix still have to play against Washington. If they're still holding out hope of a playoff chase, the Mercury essentially have to win all three. This always looked like the only route when they made the Plum trade. #WNBA
Loyd scoring 2 points on 4 shots in this game is wild. You won a scoring title. You're only 32 years old. You're in the first year of a pretty expensive three-year deal. I get the 'role player' approach when the stars are playing, but not today. Where did Jewell Loyd the aggressive scorer go? #WNBA
'Olympic qualifying tournament'? For fuck's sake, Holly.
They've got Yamamoto playing so excessively point guardy. You're a scorer - shoot the damn ball. #WNBA
Another game, another edition of The Home Lives of Ryan & Rebecca before we're halfway through the third quarter. #WNBA
Aw, here I was waiting on the final question in that NaLyssa Smith interview to be "Given everyone's talking about it, what'd you think of that ejection yesterday in Chicago?" #WNBA
It is amazing the credit New York get for, y'know, watching some international basketball. Most of the players they 'found' were essentially superstars at youth international level, then played in World Cups or Olympic Games. The crazy thing is that it stands out from the work of other teams. #WNBA
If anyone was ever going to recreate that iconic Hammon/Dydek photo, having Yamamoto playing Han on 'Court Origins' day - for the modern iterations of the two franchises Hammon and Dydek started out with - seems like just about the perfect opportunity. #WNBA
Can I also get the over on whatever the line is for Mai Yamamoto points today, please. #WNBA
Absolutely. Makes total sense from Vegas's perspective. Glaring warning for the league in a game that's on national network TV, too. Because the more games you try to cram in, the more back-to-backs, and the more teams will load manage like this. How much are you willing to hurt the product? #WNBA
Jo from Colorado@jocolorado.bsky.social · yesterday😂 But this schedule is brutal. Yesterday and now early game in NY. Ouch
Such a big rivalry that... the Aces are resting everybody. Jewell Loyd 2023, welcome back to the stage. #WNBA
Jordan Harrison becomes the ninth different rookie to have a 10+pts/5+rebs/5+asts game this season. #WNBA
We've still got a 1/4 of the season left, and we're already deep in "why do I care about this game?" region if you're a neutral. No way the league and owners let this continue in future years, when we'll be playing even more games. Playoff restructuring, or at least play-in games, are coming. #WNBA
Dick Fain somehow making Holly Winterburn sound even more British by calling her 'Winterton'. Which definitely sounds like someone who was in Downton Abbey. #WNBA
They're gonna need to give the players time to warm-up again. This is absurd. #WNBA
It's a bit tricky to parse, but in 'two-year' record, these teams are actually pretty tight. Portland's 12-19 (.387) and Seattle's 29-48 (.377) are really close. So pulling off a loss tonight as part of Rivals Week could be particularly useful for lottery standings at the end of the season. #WNBA
I'm amazed they were able to get anyone on the phone at WNBA head office on a Saturday evening, never mind someone with the authority to rescind Clark's tech. In the olden days they'd have been waiting until Monday morning at the absolute earliest. #WNBA