WNBA Finals fever - catch it

My local team, the Mystics, is the only one in WNBA history to never reach the finals. LOL.

 

There is essentially no difference between the WNBA and your girls high school basketball team.

 

The first two games were fun to watch and the WNBA is ahead of other leagues with their reseeding in the playoffs, which allowed the two best teams to meet in the Finals. (I understand no one else cares so I'll just be over here alone with my Whalen Hutchinson High School throwback).

 

So for as long as they've existed they've been fitting right in in DC.

 

Right. Which is great for me, because one of my favorite pastimes is laughing at Washington teams losing.

 

Totally understood that's a ha-ha exaggeration, and that's OK.

But let's be clear that plenty of star college players come to the WNBA and struggle. For women's basketball, it IS the pro level.

That said, I don't want one of the free tickets either.

 

Texting more with my friend, his wife said they offered her 40 tickets.

 

I think the NBA is looking at this as a test model for scrapping the current format and going to full-on, no-conference seeding soon.

 

For what it's worth, it's best-of-five (the teams split the first two games in Minnesota this week). Game 2 at Target Center drew about 12K. Don't know how much papering was done to get to that, but it's not nothing.

 

Tonight's game is 6:00 pm at the Galen Center (Staples Center has an NHL game).

Safe to say there won't be 12,000 at tip off.

 

And one of the Sparks games in the last round was at Long Beach State because there was a Kings preseason game at Staples.

 

They're better off playing at the smaller venues. Same approach MLS takes in getting out of big football stadiums.