That may have been the damndest thing I ever saw. Two points? No field goals?
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… moving on 💅 pic.twitter.com/T138cLeVqc
— Connecticut Sun (@ConnecticutSun) September 26, 2024
upinsmoke
All-Star
That's also what the paying customers are saying oddly enough.
Not this paying customer.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
he said “i started watching women’s basketball bc of you” n she hit the jim halpert. https://t.co/s3Ox27YTpR
— $lan muraco. (@Alan_sbg) September 30, 2024
Las Vegas Aces’ Tiffany Hayes Named 2024 Kia WNBA Sixth Player of the Year
Hayes is a twelve-year veteran and a former All-Star, who hasn't come off the bench since her second year, so this is only noteworthy in that it makes the fifth time in the last six seasons that a player on the Las Vegas Aces won 6POY.
It's the seventeenth time that one team won the same award two or more years in a row:
1997-98 Houston Comets (Cynthia Cooper x2)
1997-98 New York Liberty (Teresa Weatherspoon x2)
2002-03 Houston Comets (Sheryl Swoopes x2)
2005-06 Indiana Fever (Tamika Catchings x2)
2005-06 Sacramento Monarchs (Nicole Powell, Erin Perperoglou)
2009-10 Indiana Fever (Tamika Catchings x2)
2009-11 Phoenix Mercury (DeWanna Bonner x3)
2010-11 New York Liberty (Leilani Mitchell, Kia Vaughn)
2014-15 Chicago Sky (Allie Quigley x2)
2014-15 Phoenix Mercury (Brittney Griner x2)
2015-16 Seattle Storm (Jewell Loyd, Breanna Stewart)
2017-18 Washington Mystics (Alana Beard x2)
2019-20 Minnesota Lynx (Napheesa Collier, Crystal Dangerfield)
2019-21 Las Vegas Aces (Dearica Hamby x2, Kelsey Plum)
2022-23 Las Vegas Aces (A'ja Wilson x2)
2023-24 Indiana Fever (Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark)
2023-24 Las Vegas Aces (Alysha Clark, Tiffany Hayes)
Most Valuable Player
Defensive Player of the Year
Rookie of the Year
Sixth Player of the Year
Most Improved Player
Something that caught my eye: Alysha Clark and Tiffany Hayes winning consecutive 6POY awards marks the third time in league history that a team won the same postseason award in consecutive years with players that they did not draft. The two previous times were 2005-06 Sacramento Monarchs (MIP) and 2014-15 Chicago Sky (6POY).
Something else that caught my eye: there have been four times in WNBA history that the same franchise has gotten the Number One overall pick two or more years in a row (Storm 2000-01, Storm 2015-16, Aces 2017-19, Fever 2023-24), but the same team has only won ROY back-to-back seasons two out of those four times. The 2019-20 Minnesota Lynx is the only team to have won ROY in back-to-back seasons without having the Number One pick in either season.
Hayes is a twelve-year veteran and a former All-Star, who hasn't come off the bench since her second year, so this is only noteworthy in that it makes the fifth time in the last six seasons that a player on the Las Vegas Aces won 6POY.
It's the seventeenth time that one team won the same award two or more years in a row:
1997-98 Houston Comets (Cynthia Cooper x2)
1997-98 New York Liberty (Teresa Weatherspoon x2)
2002-03 Houston Comets (Sheryl Swoopes x2)
2005-06 Indiana Fever (Tamika Catchings x2)
2005-06 Sacramento Monarchs (Nicole Powell, Erin Perperoglou)
2009-10 Indiana Fever (Tamika Catchings x2)
2009-11 Phoenix Mercury (DeWanna Bonner x3)
2010-11 New York Liberty (Leilani Mitchell, Kia Vaughn)
2014-15 Chicago Sky (Allie Quigley x2)
2014-15 Phoenix Mercury (Brittney Griner x2)
2015-16 Seattle Storm (Jewell Loyd, Breanna Stewart)
2017-18 Washington Mystics (Alana Beard x2)
2019-20 Minnesota Lynx (Napheesa Collier, Crystal Dangerfield)
2019-21 Las Vegas Aces (Dearica Hamby x2, Kelsey Plum)
2022-23 Las Vegas Aces (A'ja Wilson x2)
2023-24 Indiana Fever (Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark)
2023-24 Las Vegas Aces (Alysha Clark, Tiffany Hayes)
Most Valuable Player
Defensive Player of the Year
Rookie of the Year
Sixth Player of the Year
Most Improved Player
Something that caught my eye: Alysha Clark and Tiffany Hayes winning consecutive 6POY awards marks the third time in league history that a team won the same postseason award in consecutive years with players that they did not draft. The two previous times were 2005-06 Sacramento Monarchs (MIP) and 2014-15 Chicago Sky (6POY).
Something else that caught my eye: there have been four times in WNBA history that the same franchise has gotten the Number One overall pick two or more years in a row (Storm 2000-01, Storm 2015-16, Aces 2017-19, Fever 2023-24), but the same team has only won ROY back-to-back seasons two out of those four times. The 2019-20 Minnesota Lynx is the only team to have won ROY in back-to-back seasons without having the Number One pick in either season.
****, man! I need to get up at 5 to drive my dad to dialysis, but I'm still too amped up over that damned game!
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Shocking outcome. I didn’t get to watch the second half. Down 15 with 5 to go gives me Suns flashback from last year. Every dramatic loss for a team gives me second hand trauma, felt the same after the Brewers 9th inning collapse against the Mets. But hey I’m rooting for Minny so it’s all good
These playoffs have been heat! If you quit watching after the first round Because of Reasons™, you've been missing out.
People out here comparing Game 5 to the 2002 WCF.
WNBA like, "Mama, I made it!"
WNBA like, "Mama, I made it!"
coolhandluke
Starter
Lynx got screwed over by the refs. Don't wish that on any team.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
6 teams out of 12 (not counting the new team) getting a new coach this offseason is weird. Also weird that one of coaches in the running for 3 of those jobs is still under contract with one of the best teams in the league
2025 WNBA Draft Lottery results:
- Dallas
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Washington
So... there was an investigation into alleged bullying by the Seattle Storm coaching staff. The team released a statement earlier today saying that the investigation has concluded and found no wrongdoing on their part. And, less than two hours later, Seattle's star guard Jewell Loyd has requested a trade.
Hrmm...
Hrmm...
They better knock it out of the park in free agency, because that team has 12-28 written all over it.
Another example of how she brought the worst people to the league I love: somebody was in Sarah Spain's mentions after the expansion draft talking about how the Valkyries should have taken Clark, and I legitimately don't know whether they were stupid or trolling?
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Happy birthday to the great Cheryl Miller!
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) January 2, 2025
Here's Reggie Miller talking about the night he scored 40 in a high school game and then finding out Cheryl scored 105 (46/50 FG) in a 179-15 win on the same night 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Yyxk8Bib1J
QWERTYLICIOUS
Starter
I've seen this before...Crazy story back then, and still a crazy story today!
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Not wnba yet but with a stat line like that
This might be the craziest stat line of all-time 🤯
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) January 7, 2025
(via @SCNext) pic.twitter.com/ONW1bT0LtI
coolhandluke
Starter
Diana Taurasi retires, ending legendary basketball career: 'I’m just full'
Fair Winds and Following Seas to an all-time great.
USC and UCLA are playing each other in Indianapolis, IN, for the Women's Big 10 Championship. That is an insane sentence to have to type out.
Also, salute to former Monarch Kara Lawson, on her first-ever ACC Championship as a head coach!
The first season of Unrivaled was a success, in my Personal Record Book™, flawless execution of a good concept. I will admit that I was bemused by how the Championship Final played out. Like, imagine if the United States had followed up the Miracle on Ice™ by losing to Finland? That's basically what happened in the Unrivaled Championship game.
This bracket stinks. I've been rooting for Kara to lead her team to the Final Four, but not at South Carolina's expense!
