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Feb 10, 2021 Dallas has acquired the pick from the Seattle Storm in exchange for forward Katie Lou Samuelson and Dallas’s second-round pick in 2022. As a result, the Wings become the first team in WNBA history to hold the first and second overall picks in the same draft. The Storm first acquired the pick, along with a 2022 first-round pick and a 2022 second-pick, on Wednesday from the New York Liberty. New York is acquiring former Defensive Player of the Year Natasha Howard in a sign-and-tr...

MIAMI (United States) - The USA womens national basketball Olympic minicamp invited 19 members to compete for a spot in Japan as Dawn Staley prepares to go for a seventh consecutive gold medal.

USA Women Draw Japan, France, Nigeria for Olympic Preliminary Round Play Date: FIBA conducted the draw for the Tokyo Olympics women’s basketball competition virtually Tuesday from its headquarters in Mies, Switzerland, and the U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team has been drawn into Group A alongside host Japan, France and Nigeria for the July 26-Aug. 2 preliminary round. Rounding out the 12-team field are Canada, Serbia, South Korea and Spain in Group A; and Group C features Australia, Be...

Photo courtesy of EuroLeague Women via Twitter After an exciting week of group play in EuroLeague Women, seven of the eight playoff spots for the 2020-21 season have been decided. Only Group A’s second seed remains up for grabs: Turkish club Izmit Belediyespor still has two games to play after arriving late to Group A host Salamanca. But the biggest story of group competition is the undefeated records (6-0) of three teams — Perfumerias Avenida, UMMC Ekaterinburg and Sopron Basket — that e...

Nineteen Athletes Set to Return to Court for Feb. 4-7 USA Basketball Women’s National Team Minicamp Date: A total of 19 athletes, including Olympic and/or FIBA World Cup gold medalists Sylvia Fowles (Minnesota Lynx), Kelsey Plum (Las Vegas Aces), Breanna Stewart (Seattle Storm) and A’ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces) will participate in training alongside fellow USA National Team members Ariel Atkins (Washington Mystics), Kelsey Mitchell (Indiana Fever), Sydney Wiese (Los Angeles Sparks). ...

Michelle Smith January 20, 2021 It’s almost that time of year – free agency season. Starting February 1, teams and players can finalize deals and sign contracts and offer sheets. Last year’s blockbuster free-agent barrage of player movement and major moves might be a little difficult to live up to this season, but as is the case with all things in 2021, a little more calm might not be a bad thing. That said, there is a group of impact players that many teams will ...

Dallas Wings coach Vickie Johnson hopes to be inspiration New Dallas Wings coach Vickie Johnson says she hopes to be an inspiration to the WNBAs players as someone who helped launch the league as a player herself in 1997 and who is now its only Black woman head coach. Johnson was officially announced as the Wings coach Wednesday in a Zoom call with Dallas president and CEO Greg Bibb. Dallas had the youngest average age in the league last season (24.20), and the Wings have three first-round draf...

Huh? >> you know, sometimes you make bold moves in the bracket and they dont pan out, alisyn. >> i see. >> im rather impressed i had that bad of a bracket. >> i like it. all right, andy scholes, thank you very much. >> thank you. that kid who had 31 points they call him the michael jordan of delaware. incredible player. i got a family tie in this. my nephew coach of the team. there were tears in my eyes last night. coming up well talk with the star of the womens ncaa tournament notre dames ari...

College basketball champions, one of my favorite stories of the day. but it is a player from the womens championship that has everyone talking. in the final moments of the nail biter check out this shot with less than one second on the shot. notre dames arike ogunbowale nailed this three-pointer capturing the ncaa title. believe it or not it was a repeat of friday nights buzzer beater when ogunbowale made a game winning shot with a second left in over time. its incredible. arike who was named th...

The luckier you get. we had breaks along the way. >> one of the things you learn when you do win it is how many breaks you get along the way. and how many things had to fall right for you. you look back at some of the other teams and realize this team might have been good enough, but we did not get a break here. we had a bad match or the ball bounces the wrong way. you realize how fragile it is when you do win it. >> and crowning a national champion here in san antonio tonight. michigan taking o...