Lynx/WNBA

For 20 weeks, to commemorate the WNBA’s 20th season (the MSR having covered each season), the MSR sports section will feature at least one column or article on the W in our “20 in 20” series. Their fathers once were NBA teammates. Their children are future Hall of Famers. Joe Bryant played seven NBA seasons. […]

It’s almost here — the WNBA’s landmark 20th season is close to tip off.

What happened to Brandy Reed? The answer could make an UnSung episode on TV One.

She was Seimone before Seimone. She was Maya before Maya. She potentially could have been this area’s first Black female pro superstar, recognized on a first-name basis.

There is less than 100 days until the 2016 U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team takes on the world in Rio in August. The team’s Olympic record is 58-3.

He didn’t use a crystal ball, but new Connecticut Coach Curt Miller was Carnac-like in his draft projections.
“I think we had 12 of the [first] 13 first draft picks nailed,” said the first-year Sun coach in a MSR post-draft phone interview Thursday night.

As the WBNA gets set to celebrate its 20th season, it’s clear that the 12-team WNBA is well established, states incoming WNBA President Lisa Borders, who starts March 21.

While many recognize the top NBA stars either on a first-name basis or through their hawking of products, this can’t be said for many WNBA stars or any league players. Lisa Borders aims in time to correct that.

The WNBA Board of Governors’ approval of “significant changes,” including a new playoff format for this upcoming season, might be the worst idea since Bud Selig’s idea for baseball’s All-Star game to determine who gets home field in the World Series.

All 12 WNBA teams are represented with 2016 U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team finalists. Four Minnesota Lynx players — Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles, Maya Moore and Lindsay Whalen — are among 25 finalists selected by USA Basketball, the most of any league team, it was announced Monday. “Naming the Olympic Team finalists is another step […]

Tori Rule is waiting for just one phone call. “I want to go overseas, because that is what I’ve been trained to do,” she said in an MSR interview after her scheduled work shift at the Lake Street YWCA.

The WNBA’s top leadership over the course of its nearly 20-year history has exhibited qualities both worth noting and sometimes forgetting.

Laurel Richie’s announcement last week of her stepping down as WNBA president caught nearly everyone by surprise.

The WNBA announced Wednesday that League President Laurel Richie is stepping down, effective November 9. More on this from Charles Hallman in next week’s MSR sports section.

The 19th WNBA season began in June under somewhat cloudy circumstances, with more attention given to off-court concerns than on-court promises. However, the finals series epitomized the spirit of the league, closing the year on a very positive note — in spite of continually having to battle for league legitimacy.

“It was amazing. We know we care about each other but you can’t say it too much,”said Moore. “This is a team that really cares about each other. We want to be there for each other. It shows when we play.”

“It was 18,000 people?” asked Seimone Augustus, when told of the franchise-record sellout crowd to watch Minnesota win its first pro basketball championship at home since the NBA’s Lakers back in the ’50s. “I’ve been here 10 years [and] I never seen the [arena’s] upper deck full of people in my career. It means a lot to be the longest tenured Lynx and see this amazing environment that we created over the last few years.”