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Clark says she has personally checked in with her backcourt mate after Mitchell opened up about the abuse and the toll of playing in Indiana's spotlight.
The Liberty's price got trimmed from -170 to -150 overnight, and a referee dispute over a reset timeout is adding real noise to a series New York now has to win.
Golden State closed out Game 2 in Vegas with Loyd watching from the sideline, and Atlanta needed overtime to bury New York for the second straight night.
Naz Hillmon's go-ahead layup with 20.8 seconds left in OT sealed a 101-98 win, and now the series shifts to Brooklyn with Atlanta one win from the finals.
Jewell Loyd is out for Game 2 in Golden State, and that reshuffles more than just Vegas's backcourt rotation on a semifinal night.
Atlanta loses its leading scorer to a finger injury for Game 2, and over in Vegas the injury report reads almost as bad. Nothing on my board clears yet, here's why.
The Aces moneyline moved from -110 to +106 overnight. That is not a drift, that is the market pricing a guard out before anyone officially rules her out.
Gray's finger injury knocks the Dream's leading scorer out of Game 2, and the real question is how much juice the market squeezes from one open hand.
The Aces opened -105 favorites and now sit at +103, a full flip that usually means the market knows something before the beat writers do.
Two semifinal openers flipped the futures board overnight, with Atlanta now the new favorite and the Valkyries sliding into the second slot behind them.
In an era where every star listens to the pitch, the Irish All-American says she never took a single meeting. That part is rarer than the decision itself.
Two games Wednesday, a dark Monday, and an empty board. Here's the radar list, including why the 9:30 ET window out west is where I expect my number to disagree first.
Lawson came home from the World Cup with gold and a method: the thing that transfers from a national team isn't the playbook, it's the daily habit of being the team everybody expects to win.
Atlanta turned a halftime speech into a 92-82 road win, and Golden State held the defending champions to 60 points with a coach who collapsed from exhaustion two rounds ago back on the bench.
Jordin Canada dropped 20 of her 25 after halftime and the Dream took Game 1 by ten, but they may have paid for it with their All-Star guard's left hand and no timeline attached.
Twenty-five points, lockdown defense, and an owner who skipped past "she was great" and went straight to best player in the world. Joe Lacob has never been one to hedge.
The Valkyries coach went down on the sideline in the first round and is still coaching. Her fix isn't rest, it's routine, and both semifinal Game 2s land Wednesday night.
Jordin Canada put 20 of her 25 on the board after halftime and swiped five, but the Dream finished the game without Allisha Gray, ruled out at halftime-plus with a left hand injury.
Allisha Gray left the semifinal opener with a left hand injury, and my fair on the Dream sits at -162 against -160 offered. That gap is half a percent. That is not a play.
The Bruins lose Bilic for all of 2026-27 before a single tipoff, and a program that was in its first Final Four a year and a half ago now defends a championship a rotation piece short.
Salaün led every reserve in the league at 12.7 points a game, and the ballots came back without a single dissent. For a franchise two years old, that is a loud piece of hardware.
She is the most beloved athlete the state has produced in a generation, and the Carver crowd still let her have it the second she took Iowa State over West Virginia.
A Fever guard put the quiet part on the record about fan altercations and A'ja Wilson, and Indiana's postseason exit just turned into an offseason about conduct, not chemistry.
Golden State is in the semifinals in year two, a season after hosting its only home playoff game nearly 50 miles from Chase Center. Plus Kelsey Mitchell's one-word free agency plan.
Jim Mora didn't wait for Monday or the film. He made the call during a 56-26 night in Corvallis and announced it himself at the postgame podium.
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