2025 WNBA Season: The first one with Paige Bueckers in it

a day late starting the thread, aces looking out of sorts against the libs atm

2025 WNBA Season: The first one with Paige Bueckers in it!

― symsymsym, Saturday, May 17, 2025 12:50 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Watched a bit of Kelsey Plum hitting 37 on the new Golden State Valkyries and their garish purple court last night

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better thread title then The second one with Caitlin Clark in it, right?

Mystics coming back late in both games: scrappy!

Reese looked good but Sky looked bad. Doing my best to avoid the internet on everything else on that one.

Paige did ok but has some ways to go.

Thought Sparks had a shot at turning it around this year after that Kelsey performance but they didn't seem great on Sunday and losing Rae for 2 months isn't gonna help.

Great to see we're kicking off the season with a continuing idiotic Clark vs. Reese proxy race war bullshit

foul takes about a take foul

Caitlin Clark is, and I mean this in the most complimentary way possible, a motherfucker. it's hilarious.

admittedly not the purpose of this thread but bueckers-fudd are possibly the best and cutest couple ever

This throwing of sex toys on the court of WNBA games is so depressing and should be treated as hate crimes, imo.

very much so, im glad the wnba is drawing more attenion but a lot of it is this post-caitlyn troll boy type that should be banned from the arena

It feels like gamergate applied to sports.

aces on a 10-game win streak and are a half-game behind atlanta for 2nd place after starting the season in the absolute shitter. the jewel loyd trade hasnt really panned out as hoped but the nalyssa smith trade sure has (shout out nalyssa, san antonio's own).

also paige fuckin buckets dropping 44, my word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0IbLGeDSyE

she's hella baller

last week I went to the Atlanta-Seattle game in Vancouver. Very fun close game, it was great to see Griner and Skylar Diggins balling out. It was officially an Atlanta home game despite 95% of the crowd cheering for Seattle, so the announcing was out of sync with the crowd the whole game. It was apparently the first regular season WNBA game played outside the US.

Skylar has been great this year, she’s been fun to watch play with a real ferocity

The rookies have been awesome, Paige of course, but seeing Iriafen and especially Citron play as well as they are is fantastic.

Valkyries make the playoffs in year one! The Vegas Golden Knights of the W

the las vegas golden valkyries of anaheim

also aces beat the lynx last night for their 13th straight dub, looking like a title contender now

it's an amazing turnaround

Too bad about CC being out, but the playoffs should be great, lots of legit contenders

great late comeback by the Storm last night

hm have you considered that it is not great

it was a fun game, i was fading out during the 4th but came to during the run at the end. Storm are such an unpredictable team. Still very bullish on the Aces this year.

Liberty looking very vulnerable if Stewart is hobbled

Loving Podz hype column he published to the Player's Tribune prior to tonight's game:

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/brandin-podziemski-nba-wnba-golden-state-warriors-golden-state-valkyries-basketball

great finish to the Fever win, their last scoring possession did not look good

Fever game was madcap at the end, did not expect them to pull it off

ok I know the shot was def late but the lights dimming before you could see if it went in or not was pretty funny

yeah, i hollered in that moment, real close

lol the vegas stadium team were premature with that

Indiana is not scared

i wish they were a *lil* scared then they would score fewer points

so it turns out the aces are an unstoppable hoop juggernaut and it's actually a good time to be alive

i know theyve mortgaged their futures 10 time sover but the trade for nalyssa smith was really inspired, having a legit two big lineup where they can both contribute on both sides of the ball is so huge, shoutout to kiah stokes for getting to sit and watch the games now

funny, the podsters were down on the smith trade when it happened but its proven to add vitality to the team, has been great to see

im jazzed 4 her, happy to see one of sa's finest do it on the big stage

found a stream of lynx-mercury just in time to see Phee mess up her knee, yeesh

yeah, mercury are super physical and the game was a bit if a cage match. hopefully phee is up to the challenge on sunday

some ppl say elimination games are good but i disagree, i think its good when a team just wins in 4 and saves us the heart problems

oh well, the aces do not agree at all

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/46437911/napheesa-collier-blasts-wnba-engelbert-worst-leadership

feels like this game will come down to the wire

i would not like that, it would be good for the aces to go on a 20-0 run

Indiana Vegas Vegas Indiana who's gonna win it folks

nut crunch time

awww that putbacker would've been an all time moment

goddamnit

fever dont have boston or mitchell now, but the aces look gassed.

High quality game

The Mitchell injury is very mysterious

the core of this aces team is more or less intact over the last 4 years (a'ja, jackie, chels) and theyve just been able to find enough production to build functional lineups each year to unlock their powers. shoutout to evans and nalyssa smith for being those pieces this year, and jewell loyd for evolving into the manu role as the year went on.

What a game!

i fuckin love a'ja wilson so much

hahaha holy shit that almost went in

yeah, Aces were fucking around and almost found out, Bonner almost got that bucket

i just cant overstate enough how tough that game-winner was by a'ja, spun into a double team of bonner AND thomas -- two excellent and bothersome defenders! -- and hit an off-balance midrange bucket like it was just a regular wednesday at the gym.

a'ja is the next Tim Duncan sent to break Phoenix hearts

A’ja is so dominant and so amazing to watch, god-tier

i got home from family dinner in time to see...the alyssa thomas injury :(, mercury don't have the juice to make this a game anymore

they handled business, go aces

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7113991/2026/03/18/wnba-players-new-labor-deal/

players deserve still more, but it's great that they are getting a solid increase and that it didn't jeopardize the season

big pay increases and they got revenue sharing which was the big sticking point seems like a win for the players, and the wba continues as a going concern which didnt seem guaranteed

yeah, a missed season would have been a catastrophe

player solidarity came through for them. revenue sharing is a huge win in that it becomes a normal feature of future contracts. revisions of the formula going forward are easier to negotiate that prying important new concessions out of management. congratulations wnba players negotiating team.

OTM

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics in 2023, she received hundreds of invitations and requests. She accepted just three.

One of them was advising the WNBA players union as the women prepared to negotiate a new labor deal with the league.

When Goldin replied via email to Terri Carmichael Jackson, executive director of the players union, “I remember just reading it and screaming,” Jackson said. Goldin had one requirement: She refused to be paid.

This month, the two sides reached a collective bargaining agreement that gave Women’s National Basketball Association players a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

It isn’t just the biggest pay increase in U.S. league history. It is, as far as Goldin is aware, the biggest increase any union anywhere has ever negotiated.

“It’s astounding,” the 79-year-old Harvard economist said.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/wnba-players-had-an-ace-up-their-sleeve-in-pay-negotiations-a-nobel-laureate-c5040a28?st=ZVX9Ap

that fuckin rules

was azzi fudd actually the best player in the draft or #vibes

it's fine either way!

p sure uconn reunion vibes, but its not a bad pick per se bc fudd is gudd

<3

Caitlin Clark's power to motivate lunatic GOP grifters is unparalleled:

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/49309072/in-letter-lawmakers-seek-accountability-wnba-clark

was funny to see Geno Auriemma of all people talking sense about her

Geno Auriemma weighed in on Caitlin Clark and her standing in the WNBA, saying that on-court confrontations involving the Indiana Fever star should not be viewed as a "referendum on America."

Auriemma offered a wide range of comments about Clark during a recent interview with the "Sports Media with Richard Deitsch" podcast. The longtime UConn women's basketball coach emphasized that he doesn't blame Clark for the attention she receives and noted that Clark's fanbase is responsible for much of the conversation around the former Iowa star.

"Because the bandwagon and the fandom became so obsessed with the whole thing, it turned into a cause," Auriemma said. "Clark became the reason why white players get beat up in the WNBA and she became the reason why Black players don't get the endorsements and don't get the adulation that white players get. ... Not every foul is a good foul. Not every foul's a bad foul, but there are fouls that are flagrant -- but that's all they are. They are not a referendum on America, which is what the whole goddamn thing has become."

pretty rough to earn the top seed and have to play breanna stewart in the first round

league is competitive as hell

Caitlin Clark winning this game for her #1 fan Jack Smith

#onethread

3 game series are a joke

tru

it's no joke for the players who all have to respond like their hair is on fire every game.

also these two games have been pretty decisive (thus far)

yeah they have not played well but I just feel like there's no vibe, no flow to a 3 game series, just really robs it of cool possibilities

welp

ran out the gym 😔

the playoffs are different, and now the spectacle knows it

i had been pretty bullish on the Lynx, they seemed to have lost rhythm after international break and Stewie has been on fire

fun OT game in Dallas tonight, Arike sets records for most points in playoffs in W history: 45pts

nuts 4th qtr ending, enjoyed that game

close Dream-Liberty game

Dream play such solid D with Angel Reese

game tying 3 damn

OT, hell of a game. Reese has been amazing this post season

Angel has been such a perfect match with Atlanta

terrible coaching by the libs in the last ten seconds, just blew their timeout

reese's free throw form is janky but she was clutch as hell

how are the aces losing by this much

live by da hoist, die by da hoist

2 more great finishes tonight, sad these series are over. 8 days until the finals!

aces just didnt have the depth they needed to spell their stars. hopefully nalyssa comes back healthy next year and chelsea can squeeze some more late career magic out.

I was there for the game when nalyssa got hurt, it sucked. think the aces had the game well in hand at that point, but those types of injuries are fluky anyway

Went to game 2 of the Valks Aces series and that was probably the most intense crowd and basketball atmosphere I've ever experienced, and I've been a number of NBA games, including some high stakes games.

Can't wait for the finals