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Nakia Sanford's reaction to Diana Taurasi's prank
- SB Nation Arizona preview of 2012 Phoenix Mercury, who currently are able to name only three starters. Yikes. (SB Nation Arizona)
- Phoenix Mercury are introducing their five new players – Charde Houston, Alexis Hornbuckle, Zane Tamane, Samantha Prahalis and Avery Warley. (Phoenix Mercury)
- Sports Illustrated offer their 15 players to watch in 2012. Spoiler alert: it features two players from Tulsa Shock, none from Washington Mystics or San Antonio Silver Stars. (SI)
- Stat Nerd Alert: James Bowman takes a look at player career games started. (Swishappeal)
- More stat stuff: oldest, youngest players, numbers by draft class, by school, by draft round and even by zodiac. (Swishappeal)
- Washington Mystics finalize their roster by waiving LaSondra Barrett and Jessica Breland. They also suspended Latoya Sanders with her absence due to family reasons. (Washington Mystics)
- New York Liberty round out their opening day roster by waiving Katelan Redmon, Raffaella Masciadri and not reported by the wnba.com, but also Sydney Colson. (WNBA)
- Now that she has a MVP title to her name, Tamika Catchings is going after WNBA championship. (SI)
- Things are looking good for Minnesota Lynx with increased season ticket sales, increased sponsorships, even increased TV air time. (Star Tribune)
- LA Sparks head coach Carol Ross: ”The talent hasn’t been the problem. It wasn’t before I came to town. It’s putting it together. Candace will be a force inside and out, Ogwumike is as good as everyone said she would be. There are pieces, and hopefully they will turn into answers instead of questions.” (USA Today)
- Sue Bird may wear a facemask tonight in the season opener for Seattle. Their objective isn’t that surprising – win another WNBA championship. (Seattle Times)
- Dishin & Swishin WNBA preview podcast featuring Mechelle Voepel, Mel Greenberg, Angela Taylor, Jayda Evans and Richard Cohen. (hoopfeed)
- Richard Cohen as always has the good stuff, this time previewing WNBA Eastern Conference: Atlanta Dream, Chicago Sky, Connecticut Sun, Indiana Fever, New York Liberty, Washington Mystics.
- WNBA.com meanwhile are continuing their less in-depth, less thorough previews with Seattle Storm. (WNBA)
- Associated Press preview capsules for Eastern and Western conference.
- Mechelle Voepel continues her WNBA previews on ESPN with Eastern conference. (ESPN)
- Video: Tina Charles previews Connecticut Sun 2012 season for FOX CT. (Courant)
- Video: Mechelle Voepel and Michelle Smith preview the season for Seattle Storm, Atlanta Dream and Indiana Fever. (ESPN)
- WNBA.com pre-season MVP list or in other words list of players WNBA want to succeed so they can market the hell out of them. (WNBA)
- Basketball Australia short interview with Suzy Batkovic that features this answer: “That’s a silly question: of course I’m going to launch some threes up. I always launch threes. I always have. I just love my threes. Who said big girls can’t shoot threes? We prove them wrong, every time.” (Basketball Australia)
- Video: Part two of KARE 11 feature on Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve away from the court. (KARE)
- Canada fell to China in their second exhibition game 51-67. Shanshan Li was the top scorer with 15 points. (Canada Basketball, Boxscore)
- And finally – Diana Taurasi pranks 3 of her teammates by convincing them she will not play in the WNBA this season in order to play in Olympics.
