With the WNBA season beginning last weekend, this column pays tribute to two former Minnesota prep standouts and current league players looking to make their mark. Rachel Banham (Lakeville North) Banham, a 5’9” guard, is in her fifth WNBA season as a member of the Minnesota Lynx after playing the first four with the Connecticut […]
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2017 WNBA season begins without much ado
The NBA annually uses Christmas Day — the league’s ‘unofficial’ start of the season — as its television kick-off platform. But their female counterpart instead gets a Saturday in May, a day normally reserved for baseball, golf and maybe a horse races, to do something similar. The 2017 WNBA season officially starts Saturday — six of […]