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WNBA Draft

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:04 pm
by Ryan
They just showed a war room and it's two people smiling at a laptop. I'm hooked.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:58 am
by rass
2008 Minnesota Lynx war room blog
12:29 PM

Welcome to the 2008 WNBA Draft brought to from inside The Lynx War Room! Transformed from the team’s locker room into the place where it all happens, stand decision makers COO Roger Griffith, VP of Business Development Angela Taylor, head coach Don Zierden and three assistant coaches Ed Prohofsky, Julie Plank and Jennifer Gillom.

The Draft kicked off at noon with Los Angeles picking as expected by taking Tennessee all-everything Candace Parker. Not a bad frontcourt combination with Parker and All-Star Lisa Leslie.

Next up is Chicago. Pretty much as anticipated, the Sky roll with dominant post Sylvia Fowles.

Here we go! WNBA President Donna Orender stepped to the podium and announced, “With the third pick in the WNBA draft, the Minnesota Lynx select Candice Wiggins from Stanford.”

Coach Z and and Taylor quickly stepped out to hear the reaction from Lynx season ticket holders at a large party in NBA City.

“Great reaction,” Coach Z and Taylor exclaim simultaneously as they reenter The War Room.


12:52 PM

Picks are pretty much going as expected from The Lynx front office. No surprises yet.

Griffith just announced that there was lunch in the back of the room, so a few seats just became vacant.

Oh, the first shocker of the draft occurred for the Lynx staff when the eighth pick was taken. Gillom summed up the feeling at the moment by exclaiming, “Oh my!”

Coach Z echoed Gillom by stating, “This is where it gets interesting.”

A call for Taylor came in from a player’s agent trying to see if the Lynx are taking a look at her. The agent was getting nervous that his player had not been picked yet. Taylor was her usual self, playing it cool.

“We have four people in our box, and there are five picks before us,” Zierden explained to the group.


2008 San Antonio Silver Stars war room blog
2:05

Our trainer is in the corner snacking on some Cheez Nips.... I think she's holding out on us... Connecticut is on the clock with the 37th pick, so two more to get to us at 39!

2:13

Fire up your search engines, folks.... our 39th pick is Alex Anderson, a forward from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

Just trying to keep everyone on their toes in the late rounds!

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:31 am
by Ryan
I hung in there long enough to see the Dallas Wings take Aerial Powers. MARKETING DEPARTMENT, ACTIVATE!

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:03 am
by mister d
"I'm on it!" - Jay Stanton, Dallas Wings Senior VP of Marketing, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales, Facilities & Technology

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:07 pm
by brian
So San Antonio's WNBA team is moving to Las Vegas starting with the 2018 season (but playing at Mandalay Bay's arena and not T-Mobile -- barf).

Crazy thing though is that 16 months ago, Las Vegas had 1 minor league team and no major pro sports teams and now has 3 major pro sports teams (NHL, NFL, WNBA*) and two minor league teams (AAA, including a new stadium in 2019 and USL (starting play in 2018). Kind of legitimately not sure how we never got a D-League team, though honestly the NBA Summer League is probably better anyway.

* - Certainly depending on your definition of WNBA as a "major pro sports league".

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:47 pm
by brian

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:12 pm
by brian
Just got tickets for me and Rams Fanny (and Mrs. Rams Fanny) to go see the LV Aces in the semifinals later in the week.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:12 pm
by brian
A'ja Wilson gonna have to school some biches.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:45 am
by brian
After Las Vegas wins the next two or three WNBA titles I certainly hope some forward thinking NBA team gives Becky Hammon a head coaching shot because a great coach is a great coach. (One possibility could be San Antonio if Pop retires in a couple of years. Wonder if he might want that to be part of his legacy.)

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:38 am
by sancarlos
brian wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:45 am After Las Vegas wins the next two or three WNBA titles I certainly hope some forward thinking NBA team gives Becky Hammon a head coaching shot because a great coach is a great coach. (One possibility could be San Antonio if Pop retires in a couple of years. Wonder if he might want that to be part of his legacy.)
The Popovich coaching tree is looking good. Both coaches in the NBA Finals plus Becky Hammon…

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:56 pm
by brian
You can’t watch the last minute of regulation In the Storm-Aces game today and then try to convince me that the women’s game is uninteresting to watch.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 2:25 pm
by Giff
brian wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:56 pm You can’t watch the last minute of regulation In the Storm-Aces game today and then try to convince me that the women’s game is uninteresting to watch.
Got into an argument with some buddies about it. If you watch that and say you still don’t like women’s basketball just admit you only like dunks.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 3:18 pm
by The Sybian
brian wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:56 pm You can’t watch ... the women’s game.
FIFY

And this is from a guy who assistant coaches a girls travel basketball team. For the record, I can't watch the NBA anymore either. I loved the NBA from the mid-80s through mid-90s.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 11:24 pm
by brian
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

(But seriously if Becky Hammon doesn’t get an NBA head coaching shot after this it’ll never happen.)

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:49 pm
by brian
I predicted preseason that the Aces would go 35-5 and may have been too conservative.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 5:46 pm
by Giff
Holy shit!!!


Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 6:21 pm
by HaulCitgo
Thats absurd. Larry would be proud

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 7:02 pm
by Gunpowder
Damn son

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2023 10:55 pm
by A_B
Jesús that’s some shooting. 20 in a row at one point?

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:43 pm
by brian
A’ja Wilson ties WNBA single game record with 53 points tonight.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:03 pm
by brian
Las Vegas is the first team in WNBA history to win 30 games in a season.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 10:55 pm
by brian
I realize 95 percent of you don’t give a fuck but it’s amazing to watch A’ja Wilson become the best female basketball player ever. Literally. Ever.

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:16 pm
by brian
BACK TO BACK!

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 5:56 am
by The Sybian
brian wrote: Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:16 pmBACK TO BACK!
Draft picks?

Re: WNBA Draft

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:01 am
by rass
Hate to parachute in for the last game of the season but that last sequence by the Libs can't be what Brondello was telling them to do during that last time out when ESPN spent the whole time with a camera in her face. Yikes.