Kendra Andrews Alexa Philippou Close Alexa Philippou ESPN Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Oct 22, 2025, 08:45 AM ET One year ago Tuesday, the WNBA players’ association announced …
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PHOENIX — Prior to Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, Eva and Roscoe Wilson indulged me for a trip down memory lane. We went back to Oct. 24, 1996. I was a reporter in New York assigned to cover an event announcing a new women’s professional basketball league: the WNBA. On hand at the event were two high-profile players from …
Read More »LAS VEGAS (AP) — WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert typically highlights the league’s successes over the past season at her annual state of the league address. This year’s speech might be a little different. Engelbert will speak Friday night ahead of Game 1 of the WNBA Finals for the first time since Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier’s blistering assessment that the …
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The WNBA playoffs have not been decided by questionable officiating. But they have certainly been overshadowed by it. Which puts the league in a position similar to where it was earlier this season, and to where it was during the playoffs last year, and to where it was during the postseason nearly a decade ago. This is not a new …
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If it was up to Napheesa Collier, I’m sure she would have much rather spent Tuesday afternoon healthy and preparing with her Minnesota Lynx teammates to play the Phoenix Mercury in Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals. But the Lynx’s season abruptly came to an end with a loss in Game 4 on Sunday afternoon as Collier sat on the …
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The first round of the WNBA playoffs changed this year, with the league moving from a 2-1 format to a 1-1-1 format. The first round follows a best of three format, and before this season, the higher seed of each matchup hosted the first two games while the lower seed hosted the final game if the series needed a third …
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The Chicago Sky’s season died a multitude of deaths on its way to one of the worst records in the WNBA for the second straight year. The Sky’s season was effectively over when the front office botched the 2025 draft in spectacular fashion, when it made 36-year-old point guard Courtney VanderSloot their big free agent addition, again when Vandersloot suffered …
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“Other stars are privately happy Caitlin Clark will miss the WNBA’s All-Star weekend” – Skip Bayless says absence of Clark during this weekend will only prove how huge of a star she is originally appeared on Basketball Network. With the 2025 WNBA All-Star weekend taking place at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, all eyes were naturally on local sensation Caitlin Clark, who …
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Dallas Wings rookie Paige Bueckers has confirmed that she is dating former UConn teammate and long-rumored girlfriend Azzi Fudd. Bueckers answered questions about Fudd before making her official “girlfriend reveal” in a Thursday interview with WAG Talk during the WNBA All-Star weekend in Indianapolis. Bueckers later posted a photo of Fudd at the 2025 ESPY Awards on her Instagram story. …
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A flame is being reignited for Portland’s new WNBA franchise. On Tuesday, the league’s 15th team announced it will be called the Portland Fire, reviving the name of the city’s original franchise from 2000 to 2002. “(That) is an important heritage,” Fire interim president Clare Hamill told The Athletic. “The opportunity to bring the Portland Fire back, reborn, was 100 …
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