WNBA Update

Certainly it has, but maybe had been a good publicity year for the WNBA as the presence of Caitlin Clark led a surge of interest.

Now Clark and her Indiana Fever team are out as all 4 best of 3 WNBA “quarters” resulted in 2 game sweeps for the higher ranked, pretty heavy favorites.

Those teams the top ranked New York Liberty, two time champion Las Vegas Aces, who clash next in the semis in a redux of last year’s final round taken by L.V. 3 games to 1, Minnesota Lynx and Connecticut Sun now comprise a formidable quartet of “semis” entrants.

It is too bad that due to the Olympics (was it really necessary for the women of the WNBA to aid another crown/gold medal, one by the way, not all that impressively won in the final game?) these semis begin on Sunday September 29th, in what turns out to likely be regular season baseball’s penultimate day (Hurricane Helene has forced a very likely meaningful 1 or 2 games Mets at Braves on Monday, more on this for sure in next few days posts) and the 4th week of NFL play.

Of course ESPN, sans football on Sunday will air WNBA, not so Monday night when it has pro, for a second straight week with partner ABC, there are 2 tilts.