Feb 5, 2022 Mechelle VoepelESPN.com Close Mechelle Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Guard Chennedy Carter, the No. 4 pick in the 2020 WNBA draft, is headed to the Los Angeles Sparks in a … Read more
CHICAGO — Isabelle Harrison learned how to perfect her gameday fit the hard way. She’d rush to put together an outfit and never felt very stylish. “My outfit didn’t look good,” the Dallas Wings player says with a laugh. “I was stressed.” There’s no more messing around the day of a game anymore. Through a … Read more
With the 2022 WNBA regular season two-thirds complete, five teams have established themselves as postseason shoe-ins and, in some cases, clear championship contenders. But the jostling between the six others vying for the final three playoff spots — the Atlanta Dream, Los Angeles Sparks, Dallas Wings, Phoenix Mercury, New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx — … Read more
The All-Star Game is in the books, and just five weeks remain of the 2022 WNBA regular season. And as the playoff race heats up, the best players will continue to have an impact around the league. Before play resumes Tuesday, ESPN’s Mechelle Voepel, Kevin Pelton and Alexa Philippou once again rank the top 25 … Read more
9:00 AM ET Mechelle VoepelESPN.com Close Mechelle Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. With the 2022 WNBA All-Star Game completed on Sunday, players’ focus returns to the stretch run of the next month, as … Read more
CHICAGO — The first half of the WNBA All-Star Game was a jubilant festival. The Wintrust Arena crowd roared as retiring Sue Bird made her way through the stands to the court. A’ja Wilson skipped down the floor as Candace Parker playfully shoved Sylvia Fowles after the retiring center started off the game with a … Read more
With the 2022 WNBA All-Star Game completed on Sunday, players’ focus returns to the stretch run of the next month, as regular-season play resumes Tuesday. A lot has been learned, but even more is still to be decided. In this week’s WNBA Power Rankings, we look at each team’s key for success the rest of … Read more
CHICAGO — All-Star Games regularly showcase a combination of a league’s seasoned vets and its promising young stars, but Sunday’s 2022 WNBA All-Star Game at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena — a 134-112 victory for Team Wilson — felt more than most as a passing of the torch from the W’s old guard to the new. Sylvia … Read more
Mock drafts are notoriously challenging. They are at best an exercise of informed opinion meshed with projecting how franchises view their rosters and their futures, and they are at worst a torture device used by editors to remind writers how much they don’t know. I’d like to think mine lands somewhere in the middle. This … Read more
DIANA TAURASI SPREAD her arms wide and turned toward the crowd. The WNBA superstar had just scored a playoff career-high 37 points while playing on a bum ankle. She was trending on social media. At 39 years old, Taurasi gifted the fans a vintage-style performance against the Las Vegas Aces. Taurasi’s Phoenix Mercury were headed … Read more