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With eight games remaining in the Dallas Wings’ 2026 regular-season schedule, it’s worth referring back to Zack Ward’s season preview of the team. The theme of Zack’s preseason analysis of Dallas? Patience. He examined the history of teams with back-to-back No. 1 picks in WNBA drafts, noting that among the 2024 Indiana Fever, 2018 Las […]
On June 2, before the Los Angeles Sparks took on the Las Vegas Aces, I conducted an exclusive interview with Nneka Ogwumike and asked her how many more seasons she thought she had left. Her response was short. “I don’t know,” Ogwumike said. Well, two months later, she knows. On Tuesday morning, in an interview […]
When the Golden State Valkyries host WNBA All-Star 2027, the organization certainly would be satisfied if a championship banner was hanging over the Chase Center court. To make it conceivable that such a Bay Area dream could become a reality, they must win on Wednesday night, when they welcome the arguable title favorites, the league-leading […]
When it comes to the WNBA’s playoff-caliber teams, it’s natural to gravitate towards the big names. Teams like the Indiana Fever, Golden State Valkyries and New York Liberty are not short on star players, and it’s easy to give them most of the attention as they keep winning games. Even on these veteran-laden squads, though, […]
On Tuesday, four of the teams battling for homecourt advantage in the first round of the WNBA playoffs are in action, unofficially inaugurating the down-the-stretch race for playoff seeding. The current No. 3-seed Las Vegas Aces host the No. 5-seed Atlanta Dream (9 p.m. ET, ESPN), while the No. 4-seed Indiana Fever visit the Toronto […]
UConn women’s basketball announced their non-conference schedule Monday morning, starting some early conversations about which teams could take down the Huskies before they likely undefeated, yet again, in in-conference Big East play. Per usual, UConn didn’t skimp on their schedule. The Huskies’ trek begins in early October with three exhibition games: against Syracuse in the […]
This was supposed to be a conversation about basketball, but things that are bigger than basketball ended up occupying much of Swish Appeal’s interview with Yevheniia Putra. The 22-year-old 6-foot-3 center who is preparing for her sophomore season at Louisville is from Kyiv, Ukraine. Putra shared her perspective of the on-going conflict in her home […]
Chamique Holdsclaw, arguably, was the first women’s basketball prodigy of the WNBA era. After winning four New York state championships at Christ the King, the Queens native arrived at Tennessee in 1995, a year before the announcement of the WNBA. The timing was fortuitous. Holdsclaw fit the profile of the perfect future WNBA star as […]
Unsurprisingly, Elena Delle Donne’s Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement speech focused on family. She was a top two player in the country in college, won two WNBA MVP awards, a WNBA championship and an Olympic gold medal. But she was comfortable giving her speech even though she knew it was a goodbye—not to basketball […]
UConn women’s basketball has won more championships than any other Division I team. The 12 they’ve won came over a span of 31 years—about 39 percent of the time they won it all over that stretch, while finishing in the top 10 of the final AP poll 100 percent of the time. Every player who […]
