Posts tagged WNBA
Dream Looks to Avoid Foul Trouble in ...
Seattle — When Angel McCoughtry left the court during the fourth quarter of Game One’s WNBA Finals game in order to receive three stitches after colliding with Seattle’s Jana Vesela, it was precious time the Dream could not afford to lose. Earlier in the game they’d gone through the same predicament, as McCoughtry regi [...]
Seattle Storm Practice Notebook: Sept...
SEATTLE, Sept. 13, 2010 — The Seattle Storm gathered for practice and media time Monday afternoon at KeyArena to talk about Game Two of the WNBA Finals against the Atlanta Dream. Here are just a few highlights from around the Storm.
Home is Where the Fans Are: The Storm own the league’s best home record at 20-0 this season, includ [...]
Seattle Storm Host WNBA FIT Event
The Seattle Storm gave back to the community, and more specifically local school children, on Monday as they hosted a WNBA FIT clinic at KeyArena.
Storm players Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Lauren Jackson, Camille Little and Tanisha Wright joined more than 75 local boys and girls from Roxhill Elementary School for the event. WNBA president Donna Oren [...]
2010 All-WNBA First and Second Teams ...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2010 – Seattle Storm forward-center Lauren Jackson and New York Liberty guard Cappie Pondexter headline the 2010 All-WNBA First Team, the league announced today. Jackson led all vote-getters with 195 points while Pondexter received 193 points. Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings finished third with 191 points.
Phoenix M [...]
Atlanta Dream Practice Notebook: Sept...
SEATTLE, Sept. 13, 2010 — The Atlanta Dream gathered for practice and media time Monday afternoon at KeyArena to talk about the series against the Seattle Storm. Here are just a few highlights and quotes from around the Dream.
Stitched Up and Good to Go: Angel McCoughtry was sporting a bandage over her right eye in practice today in an [...]
Atlanta Dream Practice Notebook: Sept...
SEATTLE, Sept. 11, 2010 — The Atlanta Dream gathered for practice and media time Saturday afternoon at KeyArena to talk about the upcoming series against the Seattle Storm. Here are just a few highlights and quotes from around the Dream.
Traveling to Seattle: Atlanta Dream head coach Marynell Meadors shrugged off the early obstacles the [...]
Seattle Storm Practice Notebook: Sept...
SEATTLE, Sept. 11, 2010 — The Seattle Storm gathered for practice and media time Saturday afternoon at KeyArena to talk about the upcoming series against the Atlanta Dream. Here are just a few highlights from around the Storm.
Dream Big: There’s no hiding the fact that the Atlanta Dream are a much bigger team than the Storm. Atlan [...]
Blood, Sweat But No Tears for Dream
Seattle – The Atlanta Dream’s Angel McCoughtry sat at her locker following the Game One loss to the Storm sweaty and bloodied from a hard-fought, nail-biting finish that ultimately ended with Seattle taking an early 1-0 series lead. The sweat came from her tireless effort to keep the Dream in the running for a ‘W,’ dropping 19 poi [...]
Bird Soars Storm Past Dream
It wasn’t an exact déjà vu moment for the Seattle Storm, but it was close.
Sue Bird’s two-point basket with 2.6 seconds remaining gave the Storm a 79-77 win on Sunday in Game One of the WNBA Finals at KeyArena in Seattle. The victory ran their record at home this season to 20-0.
“The way they guarded the pick-and-roll, I was able [...]
Riding Postseason Momentum
Atlanta’s second-year All-Star Angel McCoughtry admits it wasn’t an easy path to the Finals, but she also believes many teams weren’t prepared for what the Dream had in store for the postseason.
“I wouldn’t say they had us written off, but I would say they weren’t worried as they should’ve been,” said McCou [...]
Bird’s Recounts Big Comeback
The odds were against the Seattle Storm in the closing minutes of Game Two of the Western Conference Finals. In fact, with a 12-point lead in the fourth quarter, the Phoenix Mercury front office staff had every right to start looking at travel arrangements for Game Three.
But then there was a basket. Then another. After all was said and done, [...]
Bird leads Storm past Dream in WNBA F...
SEATTLE (AP) Different game. Different venue. Same old Sue Bird.
Same result for the Seattle Storm, too.
Bird made a tiebreaking jumper from the foul line with 2.6 seconds left and the Storm beat the Atlanta Dream 79-77 in Game 1 of the WNBA finals on Sunday.
Angel McCoughtry had a last-second try for the Dream, but her long 3-pointer from th [...]
From Four Wins to the Finals: Buildin...
Atlanta Dream history began with seven weeks of losses.
For the 17 games between the Dream’s first-ever WNBA tip-off on May 17, 2008 and Atlanta’s game against the Chicago Sky on July 5, the newcomers explored the limits of losing. They lost big (100-67 against Connecticut in the opener) and they lost close (an OT loss to that sam [...]
WNBA Finals: Point/Counterpoint
One of the best things about sports is the debates that they can spark. As we look ahead to the 2010 WNBA Finals, WNBA.com reporters Scott Stanchak and Frank Della Femina examine a number of topics that will likely affect the outcome of this year’s championship series. Take a look at the arguments each makes below and choose your side a [...]
