The Aces had the luxury of choice in Game 1:

On this date in basketball history: October 4 Bob Cousy is dispersed to the Celtics from the Stags; Spain shocks the Soviets in EuroBasket; the Lynx win their fourth WNBA title

Cathy still sucks, but if you care about the league, its future, and most importantly its players (which you should), then read this.

Kah Copper's halftime interview with Holly Rowe is an instant classic 🏀

Kahleah Copper was asked about if she has to lift up Alyssa Thomas after her missed free throws. Copper blanked stared, asked to repeat the question and then said just 3 words: “Nah. She good.”

BUCKETS OFF THE BENCH 🪣 Dana Evans' five 3-pointers tied the record for most threes off the bench in a WNBA Finals game!

Rookie Kayla McBride with Big Shot Becky (Hammon) on the San Antonio Stars (now the LV Aces) in 2014. #WNBA #WNBASky

I know the Sky are going through it rn but what an opening game for former 2021 Chicago champs

Welp that's my bedtime. It's a lot easier watching a finals series when you're perfectly fine with either team winning. Let me check YouTube for the post game interviews. I hate how the #WNBA doesn't get a post game show in the playoffs. Just disrespectful.

Aces winning a game where Phoenix made 14 threes does not bode well for the Mercury.

This series is gonna be incredible. The Aces look more vulnerable than either of the championship seasons, and the Mercury have a chance any given night if they can get out of their own way.

Dana Evans with the shoutout to Kiah Stokes for staying ready. And how about 21 points off the bench and a +9 on the game for Dana.

The players in the #WNBA give *WAY* better interviews than the players in the MNBA.

Top tier basketball played tonight. #WNBA #WBB

Im going to the Unrivaled games when they get to Philly and Ima act like a whole groupie. Ima need Dana Evans in my life

A'ja Wilson is just the 3rd player in WNBA Finals history with 20+ PTS, 10+ REB, 5+ AST, and 2+ BLK in a game, joining: Lisa Leslie: 2001 Game 2 Elena Delle Donne: 2019 Game 1 u.acrossthetimeline.com/stat-ldTCc

ACES WIN!! ACES WIN!!!! And after my carping about the refs at the beginning of the 2nd half, they really were fine. Rough couple minute stretch, but overall just fine. Phew. Ready for Game 2....I think. #WNBA

AS I SAID BALL. DOES. NOT. LIE. GO, ACES!!!!!! #WNBA

BALL DON'T LIE #WNBA

Foul, madam. Foul. Not a held ball. #WNBA

It's nice to see that my local bar has the WNBA final on one of the TVs without me having to request it, even if I'm the only one fully following the game #WNBA #WomensSports

Weirdness in some @bsky.app feeds: When I refresh the #NWSL/#USWNT feed and the #woso journalists feed, they reset to 2 days ago. Happens repeatedly. Help, @support.bsky.team ?

This is so incredibly sad and was also preventable. I'm glad his name is cleared, I'm sad he isn't here to know that.

down one end of the spectrum you have me believing that what i wear and do will influence the outcome of my teams' matches and down the other end you have a university in Indiana blaming Taylor Swift bc they can't win when she drops an album www.espn.com.au/college-foot...

Fascinating stuff from Newsom when pressed on trans rights. Some great documentation here from @madycast.com and actually excellent interviewing/conversation from @connoreatspants.bsky.social. Connor's asking questions like a journalist and not just a streamer.

HOUSTON WE DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM!!!! #dtfo

I understand the polite pushback on the Pride whenever I do a Take-Off about what's gone wrong with them but they really aren't showing signs of ending this freefall. Do people know last week's narrow win over San Diego was their 1st win over a current playoff team since 4/12?

#WNBA #WNBPA @nnekaogwumike.bsky.social

FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU, SAYS THE POINT GAWD, PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND GIVE YOU BUCKETS! -Chelsea Gray’s halftime speech before drawing up the play, quoted in Jeremiah 29:11 #WNBA

Everybody on fire tonight, pure basketball #wnba

Here. We. Go. Whistles starting up. #WNBA

Oh, I missed it for the Q1-2 Coaches interview, so let me get it in now because I really do mean that I'll say it every time: I HATE THESE INTERVIEWS #WNBA

I love Becky Hammond stopping dead during one of those stupid sidelines interviews of the head coaches to watch her team play. 😂 #Aces

Stupid fuck.

Trump’s #MassDeportation agenda just killed good-paying jobs for Tennessee. This is a company Gov. Bill Lee recruited! Are we great now, GUV? tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/02/e...

updated Bluesky prompt: “Was silence not an option?”

Trying to write an archive-based global history means contacting a lot of archives (80+ so far). I love most of them, but the gold medal goes to the Archives nationales de France: two great weeks on site, and they’ve fulfilled 116 (!) scan requests in 4.5 years. And I only paid 72 euros total...

I just thought about the kittens leaving next weekend and I started crying. I'm going to be a mess when they're all gone. I love these little gremlins so much 😭

An FBI agent is “relieved of duty” (fired?) for refusing to facilitate an unnecessary humiliation of a defendant. Reminder that as a defendant, Trump was afforded *every* possible courtesy (like allowing him to turn himself in). www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Ehhhh, probably 10. 🙄 #USWNT #GothamFC

#ACFC #Ali

Let's face it - to a majority of white America, authoritarianism is preferable to being governed by non-white leaders. Disgusting.

I'm SO ANNOYED. WHY are the #Mercury hitting so MANY stinking THREES

Good.

If Houston could move the ball quicker Orlando would be in real trouble here. Dash outplaying the Pride through 30 minutes but have not been dangerous enough to take advantage