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2x #SportsEmmy Award winner • former lawyer • views are my own • @NBCSports • @OnHerTurf • @Hoopstresses • 1913 ♥️🤍 • 🇯🇲 • 📧: [email protected]
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Among the many things Grandma Kitty shared with Steph Curry tonight after the game at Barclays, one of my faves is a Mother’s Day card she received from her family. It read:
“Happy Mother’s Day mom. Thank you for teaching us to love God, each other, and Steph Curry.”
Enjoy!
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(very) LONG TWEET ALERT 📣:
Honestly, I don’t even know where to begin. Which is probably why it took me so long to finally send this.
Aside from being the first franchise to turn a profit, being the first franchise independently owned and operated, and being the first franchise to be owned by Native Americans, the @ConnecticutSun franchise was the first to believe in me.
After a couple games as the In Arena host orchestrated by @khelt5, Amy Scheer (who was EVP at the time) gave me the opportunity to serve as the sideline reporter for the team just because she knew that I was trying to break into the business and wanted to give a young woman a shot. She didn’t need a reel. She didn’t need references. She simply asked me, “Do you think you could do this?” and I responded back, “Absolutely.”
I became family almost immediately. The. @thatgirlallie25 & @JenRizzotti kept believing in me. Year after year I got the chance to tell these players’ story, uplift and encourage them privately, share insight into their journeys, ask the tough questions. Simply put: I got a chance to treat them like human beings while doing my job in the most authentic way. I’ve been able to forge relationships that won’t die no matter where they play basketball or position themselves within the WNBA space.
I gained a family who became more than just my broadcast partners, but my brothers and sisters. @BrendanGlasheen @The_Battle_Zone @McKeown_Wallace @edonathaqi1 @AndyBock70 @JohnABrickley @GLucivero The bond that we share and the memories that we made will last a lifetime. We’re forever locked in.
To the fans: “Thank you” just doesn’t seem like enough. “I appreciate you” to all the people who have poured into me, offered your kind words, and given me love over the last 6 years, doesn’t feel like enough.
I honestly don’t know if I will ever find the words to truly express how much this team, these fans, my colleagues, the staff and this franchise truly meant to me. I’ve come to terms with knowing that it may never be possible. But the one thing that I hope has been left upon every fan and every life that I may have touched in this role is that everything that I did, every story I told, every report I gave, every milestone I achieved, every record that was broken, EVERYTHING was for the fans and for the growth of this game.
I am and will be forever grateful for all the memories. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this historic chapter in @WNBA history.
The Sun has finally set in Connecticut - 2003-2016 🧡☀️🫶🏾🏀
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🚨NEW WORDS ALERT🚨
THE WNBA PLAYOFFS ARE ALMOST HERE!
I have questions and thoughts ahead of each series.
sports.yahoo.com/wnba/articl…
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Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese and Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson have been named the WNBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 15 of the 2026 season.
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Los Angeles Sparks Part Ways With Head Coach Lynne Roberts.
📝 bit.ly/4ryQu8s
ALT Los Angeles Sparks Part Ways with Head Coach Lynne Roberts graphic.
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the seven games separating the lynx and liberty is the smallest gap between the 1 and 8 seeds since the wnba changed the playoff format in 2016
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Not only did the Golden State Valkyries lead the WNBA in defensive rating (99.1), they, relative to league average (~9.6 points stingier), just put together the greatest defensive season in league history.
Cannot stress to you how ridiculous that it.
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Tonight, @nnekaogwumike will play her final @WNBA game. Throughout her career, both on and off the court, she has been instrumental in changing the game for women’s basketball, including leading the charge in 2018 when @TheWNBPA opted out of their CBA. Her message was clear — bet on women: “This is not just about business. This is deeply personal. This is about the kind of world we want to live in.
I am an elite athlete. I am an MVP. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a No. 1 draft pick. I am a WNBA player and I am the president of the WNBPA.
And I want young female athletes to dream about playing in a vibrant and thriving WNBA. I want them to dream of having it all.
I don’t want the best and the brightest female athletes in the world dreaming about playing in the NBA. I don’t want the best and the brightest young girls growing up thinking that men are the pinnacle. I want those girls dreaming about growing up into the best women they can be.
And I want them to dream about the league that I know ours can become. A league that has a fair and consistent work environment. A league that treats its players as the world-class athletes they are. A league that invests in its future. A league that believes in us as much as we believe in it.
And it’s not just me who wants this. I’m one of 144 WNBA players....
To me, opting out means not just believing in ourselves, but going one step further: betting on ourselves. It means being a group of empowered women, in the year 2018, not just feeling fed up with the status quo, but going one step further: rejecting the status quo. And it means taking a stand, not just for the greatest women’s basketball players of today, but going one step further: taking a stand for the greatest women’s basketball players of tomorrow.
Does opting out mean that we have all of the answers right now, and that we’re about to propose a way to fix every problem in the W overnight? Of course not.
Does it mean we’re saying this league is broken, and we need to start the whole thing over from scratch? Not even close. We love this league. We’ll always love this league. The WNBA means everything to us....
It’s believing in what you know……. and then being alright with what you don’t know. And while we don’t know what the future has in store for this league — we do know that there’s never been a better time to be a part of it.
We believe in women, we believe in the WNBA, we believe in the WNBPA, and we believe that, wherever the finish line is for this movement that we’re a part of…… we’re just not there yet.
We’re opting out because women’s basketball’s potential is infinite.
We’re opting out because there’s still a lot more work to be done. And we’re betting on ourselves to do it.” playerstribu.ne/BetOnWomen
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“I should have made that free throw,” Nneka tells the Sparks crowd, “and I should have made that putback a couple of possessions before that.” A competitor to the very end.
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The Los Angeles Sparks are going to name the player sanctuary at their new training facility in honor of Nneka Ogwumike. Ogwumike was brought to tears when the announcement was made.
Where would the Valks be without Kaitlyn Chen? Gabby was obviously huge in the clutch but Chen willed them back.
Cannot believe the Sparks blew Nneka night. I mean I can believe it but still.
They were in full control.
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With her 12 points and 10 rebounds tonight, Nneka Ogwumike has officially surpassed Candace Parker for the most double doubles in a single season in Los Angeles Sparks franchise history. Tonight is Ogwumike’s 19th double-double of the season.
