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Where: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, IN
How to watch: Monumental Sports Network
Injury Report
Elena Delle Donne (Back, Out); Alysha Clark (Foot, Out)
Fever: Lauren Cox (Knee, Out); Aaliyah Wilson (Foot, Out)
Pregame notes
The Washington Mystics (1-3) will play the Indiana Fever (1-4) again on Tuesday after losing 89-77 despite 31 points from Tina Charles. That previous game was also the first game for Myisha Hines-Allen since playing overseas. She didn’t do so hot offensively as she was held scoreless. But we know she’ll get going as the season progresses.
The Mystics need that x-factor off the bench. The only players in double figures in their loss was Charles, Atkins and Erica McCall who were starters in the game. The bench only gave 12 points.
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D.C. has a game on their hands tonight as the Washington Mystics will play the Indiana Fever again. The last meeting wasn’t too good as Washington lost 89-77. We hope things will play out differently tonight!
It can be expected that Tina Charles will score high, but keep a look out for another Mystics player to get going as it’s definitely needed. This Washington team has to find a way to keep their shooting at a high level and not experience any droughts late in the game. That was the issue previously as they were held to just 13 points in the third quarter.
Earlier this week, the Toronto Raptors announced that they will have an all-female broadcast crew on Mar. 24 when they play the Denver Nuggets on a game that will be broadcast on TSN. Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m. ET at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla.
The game is part of a celebration of women in sports and will be the first all-female broadcast team in NBA history. Since TSN is a Canadian network, we can watch it on NBA League Pass or listen to it on SiriusXM Radio. As you are aware, the Raptors are playing the entire 2020-21 NBA season in Tampa because of the coronavirus pandemic and Canadian restrictions.
“I’m really excited. And really looking forward to this,” McPeak told The Athletic’s David Aldridge. “As a little mixed girl growing up, there was no representation for me in Canada. To have five women of different backgrounds, and three of which are Black women in sports on their televisions, is probably one of the craziest full-circle moments I’ve had in my career.”
McPeak joins Leandra Reilly Lardner as female broadcasters who have called a regular-season NBA game. (Lardner did play-by-play for a Nets-Sixers game in 1988 for SportsChannel America.) Her assignment comes nearly three years after calling a Washington Wizards preseason telecast for Monumental Sports Network. (Monumental Sports Network had to sign off on McPeak working the TSN broadcast, of which general manager Zach Leonsis was “incredibly supportive.”)