When the WNBA playoffs come around every postseason and seeding takes form, there’s typically a simple story behind why each team landed where they did. Finishing the regular season at the top of the WNBA standings once again, the Minnesota Lynx secured the No. 1 seed in the playoffs after a 33-11 season. Conversely, just… The post Two Paths, One Matchup: How the Liberty and Lynx Landed in the First Round appeared first on Winsidr.
Game 1 between the Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces averaged a 1.2 rating with 2.11 million viewers on ABC. It was ABC's largest audience for a WNBA playoff game, and the third largest audience since 2000. Game 1 of Liberty-Lynx averaged 1.2 million viewers on ABC earlier in the day. WNBA games averaged 731,000 viewers across all networks this season, up 11% from last year.
Rui Hachimura moved on from the Lakers, and he’s hoping his fans do, too. On his official Instagram account @blacksamurai, a clip of Hachimura gifting a Clippers jersey to a fan was posted. The fan originally was wearing Hachimura’s No. 28 Lakers jersey, but the forward asked the boy to swap it for a new...
Cameron Brink and Rae Burrell. | Getty Images Missing the WNBA playoffs for a sixth-consecutive year means the offseason has begun for the Los Angeles Sparks. They’ve wasted no time getting to work. The day after their season ended, they parted ways with head coach Lynne Roberts. And on Tuesday morning, they held an introductory press conference for their new general manager Ariana Andonian, who was officially hired on Sept. 4. She didn’t waste any time and immediately laid out her vision for...