373 miles separate Los Angeles and Phoenix, making it a short trip for the University of Washington graduate 🎓 as she heads to her fourth city since leaving the Seattle campus.
Sadly, the Mercury sit south of the Sparks in the Western conference standings, but the upside is that the recovery from her injury is almost complete !
There have been more loops finished in my lifetime than I can remember, and the stadiums 🏟 of the WNBA are one of them. A few years back, Lin joined me for a trip to Minneapolis for a Lynx home game to complete the box set.
Then the league went pop, pop, and pop by adding San Francisco, Portland, and Toronto to the mix in a very small amount of time. Getting to tack on a Portland Fire 🔥 home game a few days ago was a fun experience, but if created a ” hanging Chad ” in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦.
Toronto Tempo is also wrapping up its inaugural season, and tonight is the first of their final six home dates. But tonight is set to be about a Middle School 🏫 Volleyball 🏐 match in Luray, Virginia, so we turn the page to the final five dates.
Two of the five are against the Indiana Fever, which sadly means highly inflated ticket 🎟 prices. That leaves three to choose from 8/21, 8/23, and 9/20.
Women’s basketball 🏀 is a passion of mine and has been my entire life. I trace it back to the days when my late mother would come outside and play the game she played back in the 1950’s. Mom 👩 had game, and while her body gave out way to soon later in life, she loved to play basketball.
The tricky part about the final three home dates is that I should have Linda back home by then. Niagara Falls is just south of Toronto, and it’s been a hot minute since I took her there. Yeah, that’s the ticket 🎟.
Toronto is a beautiful place to visit, even if it is a bit busy nowadays.
The upside to the WNBA is that my favorite player is set to return to action here in a few days ! Kelsey Plum has been out for a month now but will be playing again on August 2nd…
Dallas, with an 8-0 run late in the 1st quarter, lead 18 -17 after the opening 10:00.
8:07 PDT – halftime score, Portland 42, Dallas 40…
Wings 🪽 by 7 after 3rd quarter
93-90 until the UCONN guards go back 2 back from deep. 99-90
What a finish as the Fire 🔥 go 7-0, lead down to 99-97 (0:32.0)…
Portland with a great look to tie it up, but it bounced off the rim. Free throws awarded at 0:00.7
Dallas wins 🏆101-97….9:23 pm
Two nights ago, the young lady, who I felt privileged to watch across four seasons at Hec Ed on the campus of the University of Washington, scored a career professional high of 43 points !
Included in that 43 was five points in the final minute, with the last two falling as the horn sounded and forced the contest into overtime. The Sparks won that night, but last night was in a word, painful.
Nine points before fouling out on a night. The team only netted 58 points, but Kelsey Plum is still my all-time favorite female athlete.
Today, she wakes up in the number two spot in the WNBA scoring race 🏁. That Wilson kid, she has game too !
It’s okay to still be proud of your favorites, even when the final outcome is less than desired !
Just moments after Brunson and the Knicks ended a 53-year drought, another guard put on a show !
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