The Seattle Storm’s Jewell Loyd, Connecticut Sun’s Alyssa Thomas and New York Liberty’s Courtney Vandersloot are the winners of the 2023 WNBA Peak Performer Awards.
An uncharacteristic losing streak has the third-place Connecticut Sun falling further behind the WNBA’s elite teams. The Sun have been in this position before, but is it realistic to expect it to yield major playoff success?
On Friday night, the Connecticut Sun had four-game winning streak foiled by the Chicago Sky. Nevertheless, the Sun, sitting second in the WNBA standings, still have proved themselves to be championship-level squad.
Inside the WNBA s Fight to Turn Georgia Blue Women just know how to get shit done. Jan 26, 2021
Elizabeth Williams was 6,000 miles away the night Georgia turned blue. But even from Turkey, where she is playing during the WNBA off-season, the 6-foot-3 center felt the gravity of the moment and the role she and other WNBA women had in making it all happen.
The Atlanta Dream superstar helped lead a league-wide players movement to unseat Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who happens to be a co-owner of the WNBA team Williams plays for. For months, she listened as then-Sen. Loeffler assailed the Black Lives Matter movement and criticized the WNBA s dedication to social justice. The rhetoric led to Williams and her teammates making a fateful decision to rebel against their boss.