Delle Donne, Mystics wrap up WNBA season with 1st title
5 years, 2 months ago

Delle Donne, Mystics wrap up WNBA season with 1st title

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Elena Delle Donne and the Washington Mystics capped an eventful WNBA season with the team’s first championship. “It took five games, took four in the semis, it took battling injuries, it took a lot of resilience, fight, heart,” said Kristi Toliver, the only Mystics player to win a WNBA title before Thursday night. But last year obviously certainly motivated us to be really, really focused for the season.” It helped that Finals MVP Emma Meesseman was back after missing last year to play with the Belgian national team. The league’s all-time winningest coach had reached the Finals three times in his career — twice with Connecticut and last season with Washington — but fell short each time.

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WNBA playoff picture starting to come into focus as Liberty clinch top seed and Minnesota second
3 months, 3 weeks ago

WNBA playoff picture starting to come into focus as Liberty clinch top seed and Minnesota second

Associated Press  

More than half of the WNBA playoff seeds are set with the New York Liberty clinching the No. The Liberty topped the Washington Mystics to earn homecourt throughout the playoffs for only the second time in franchise history. The Sun are currently in third with a one-game lead over Las Vegas, which assured itself no worse than the four seed …

‘Nothing’s working’: Can the New York Liberty avoid WNBA Finals elimination?
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Nothing’s working’: Can the New York Liberty avoid WNBA Finals elimination?

New York Times  

LAS VEGAS — The good news for the New York Liberty after Wednesday night’s Game 2 shellacking at the hands of the Las Vegas Aces is that they boarded a charter airplane to fly back East less than two hours after the final buzzer sounded. As New York traveled a week ago to Las Vegas optimistic about its chances of …

‘I’m just getting started’: Sparks’ Lexie Brown proves importance of WNBA role player
2 years, 5 months ago

‘I’m just getting started’: Sparks’ Lexie Brown proves importance of WNBA role player

LA Times  

The WNBA’s third-best three-point shooter watched the league’s annual three-point contest on a TV in Las Vegas, more than 1,700 miles away from the All-Star festivities in Chicago. “She’s been this shooter,” said Sykes, who recalled a game when Brown dropped 31 points on Sykes’ Syracuse team as a freshman at Maryland. I’m happy that everybody else in the world …

Sparks overpowered by Mystics without All-Star Nneka Ogwumike
2 years, 5 months ago

Sparks overpowered by Mystics without All-Star Nneka Ogwumike

LA Times  

Sparks guard Brittney Sykes scored 16 points in the team’s 94-81 loss to the Washington Mystics on Tuesday. Elena Delle Donne dominated the Nneka Ogwumike-less Sparks on Tuesday, dropping 26 points on 10-for-14 shooting in less than 28 minutes in the Washington Mystics’ 94-81 win at Crypto.com Arena. “Nneka’s our engine and she’s like a silent killer and her IQ …

Two-time WNBA MVP Delle Donne feels healthy, ready to play
2 years, 11 months ago

Two-time WNBA MVP Delle Donne feels healthy, ready to play

Associated Press  

Elena Delle Donne is ready to play again. The two-time WNBA MVP has only been able to play three games the last two seasons because of back issues that required surgery. I have been going to work every single day,” Delle Donne said on a media Zoom on Tuesday. I’m so excited to get this season started; we’ve got an …

WNBA: Te'a Cooper helps Sparks beat Mystics
3 years, 6 months ago

WNBA: Te'a Cooper helps Sparks beat Mystics

The Hindu  

Te’a Cooper scored a career-high 26 points, Amanda Zahui B. added 17 and Los Angeles Sparks beat the short-handed Washington Mystics 89-82 on Thursday night. Wings uses balanced attack to rout Fever Satou Sabally's 15 points and nine rebounds led a balanced attack as the visiting Dallas Wings rolled to an 89-64 win over the hapless Indiana Fever on Thursday …

WNBA season tips off with question mark that could become exclamation point
4 years, 5 months ago

WNBA season tips off with question mark that could become exclamation point

LA Times  

Nneka Ogwumike parsed through epidemiologist research, league proposals and player feedback. “With how the world has been,” the Sparks All-Star forward and players’ union president said, “what are we really sure of anymore?” With all 12 WNBA teams quarantined in Bradenton, Fla., this season’s uncertainty makes it harder than any other as games begin Saturday. The threat of one health …

WNBA’s Delle Donne ‘hurt’ after opt-out request denied
4 years, 5 months ago

WNBA’s Delle Donne ‘hurt’ after opt-out request denied

The Hindu  

Reigning WNBA Most Valuable Player Elena Delle Donne said on Wednesday she must decide whether to risk her life playing basketball amid the COVID-19 outbreak or forfeit her pay-cheque after her medical opt-out request was denied. Delle Donne, who has chronic Lyme disease, said in an open letter posted on The Players’ Tribune website that her personal physician believes she …

Elena Delle Donne on medical opt-out denial: ‘I was shocked’
4 years, 5 months ago

Elena Delle Donne on medical opt-out denial: ‘I was shocked’

CNN  

CNN — Elena Delle Donne, the reigning WNBA MVP, wants to play basketball. On Monday, a panel of doctors denied Delle Donne’s request to opt-out of the WNBA season for medical reasons, saying she is not at high risk of contracting Covid-19 and should be allowed to play. I know that being on antibiotics for a long period of time …

WNBA MVP Delle Donne says league denied her medical waiver
4 years, 5 months ago

WNBA MVP Delle Donne says league denied her medical waiver

The Hindu  

Elena Delle Donne's request to be medically excused from the WNBA season was denied, according to the league's reigning MVP. The Washington Mystics star said in a statement Monday that the independent panel of doctors the league and union agreed upon to decide whether players should be medically excused deemed her not to be high risk, and should be permitted …

With Elena Delle Donne’s back worse than we knew, ‘Playoff Emma’ leads the Mystics to first WNBA title
5 years, 2 months ago

With Elena Delle Donne’s back worse than we knew, ‘Playoff Emma’ leads the Mystics to first WNBA title

New York Times  

WASHINGTON — This was weeks ago, after the Mystics had beaten Dallas toward the end of the regular season, on a September night before “Playoff Emma” was a thing. She scored 22 off the bench to lead Washington to its first-ever WNBA title, picking up both Finals MVP and the slack, while Elena Delle Donne had her hands full guarding …

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