Maybe the WNBA (the league) doesn’t have as much sway over who’s getting picked? I mean, maybe the players can say, “I won’t play if she’s on the team.”
There have been other snubs in the past, and not just white girls.
Candace Parker was not on a team after being the WNBA MVP two straight years. The coach said he didn’t want her on the team. When there is a wealth of talent that will win regardless, personal issues will creep in.
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What I heard this morning is there are only six practices before the Olympics and the other ladies have already been playing together
The guys have the advantage that Summer Olympics is season end, not beginning
i heard that this AM as well and it makes a ton of sense. 9 returning players who have played together.
there’s a ton of players who could have been players 10-14 or whatever. you can’t really argue against the players who made it and at some point there are position needs that trump what would sound “awesome”
Basketball is such a team sport.
/r, in case colorblind
Also, who gets dropped for the golden girl?
No one seems too concerned about that woman’s experience and prowess and feelings.
Experience??
Feelings???
Chelsea Gray, guard.
Gray, 31, has yet to play this WNBA season after suffering a leg injury during the 2023 WNBA Finals.
Why roster a player that cannot take to the court?
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Bump, for an interesting all-star game: Team USA versus the snubbed.
Saturday 7/20 5:30PM.
I’m busy at that time, but I’ll to remember to record it.
Won’t be like a super-boring NBA all-star offense exhibition. I think these teams are gonna go at it.
I think it was yesterday I saw the WNBA finalized their media deal for 11 years for 2.2B.
Today I see the NBA is finalizing their media deal for 11 years for 76B.
To what extent do those deals reflect ad revenues? (Which in turn, I assume, reflect viewership.)
Team USA loses to a bunch of (mostly) American B-Ballers:
“I mean, they’re really good,” Clark said. "They had plenty of talent on that team and, I mean, it is the same, I think [three] years prior. I’m pretty sure Team WNBA beat Team USA.
“They were perfectly fine in the Olympics. Like, I think, if anything, it shows how good this league is.”
Shows a bit why the team selection process is flawed, or that the current choices, if truly better choices, don’t have the drive to win.
Good ol’ Girls Club.
So the ladies who did NOT get selected for the Olympic team beat the ladies who DID?
Heh… 
Second time this happened (happened three years ago for the delayed Tokyo Olympics).
It was probably the toughest team they’d play against in the lead-up, a bunch of rejects with bugs up their butt versus what appears to be privileged elite players who get picked for other reasons (as well as their basketball skills, which are cromulent enough to get a Gold).
so I am assuming she is an American?
Born in Milwaukee, but that doesn’t mean that much for International Duty restrictions.
She recently turned down an invitation to join USA, so there’s that.
Also says she was MVP of the 2021 All-Star game as well.
OK, bump for playoffs, the only important part of the season.
One thing from the article bugs me a bit:
Including additional matchups versus the Seattle Storm (twice) and Las Vegas Aces, Indiana played its first 11 games in 20 days – by contrast, the Aces played six games in that span.
That’s a pretty big difference. Wondering if it is due to sharing space with more important teams (men’s NBA and NHL) during their playoff runs.
But it wasn’t home games vs away games. It was total games. Indiana played 11 games in 20 days while LV only played 6.
I could see your point if Indiana was having to play all their games on the road vs at home because of sharing an arena, though I thought many of the WNBA teams don’t play in the NBA arenas anyway.
I also saw a post on FB about lots of single season records set this year. Yeah, this is the 2nd year where they have a 40 game season vs prior when it was only 36. So wouldn’t you expect single season records to start getting broken? People still complain about the change in number of games for MLB (not as much for NFL though it still comes up).
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Records, schmecords… Just Win, Baby!
So Clark wins ROY with 66 out of 67 votes.
And now that Clark is out of the playoffs, ratings have fallen by half, which is still better than last years finals numbers.
“We no dunk…”