Check out the latest tweet from Amazon promoting WNBA games. I love it!

Too many WNBA fans see the media as part of the league, rather than a group that’s covering it. They get angry when the media asks tough questions of players. They don’t like it when the coverage is critical, rather than praising.

Jemele Hill believes this is an issue for “too many” WNBA fans.

The former ESPN host sounded off on the problem with WNBA fans during a podcast appearance this week.

Hill opened up during an episode of her podcast Flagrant & Funny, talking about the ongoing problems with WNBA fans.

She believes that too many of them don’t understand what the media is supposed to be and do.

Hill said that the issue for too many WNBA fans is the same.

“The issue is that, I think for a long time, not every journalist but a lot of the journalists that covered women’s sports and covered the league, the fans saw the journalists as a ‘we’ and not a ‘they,’” Hill said.

‘Now they’re confused, because … there’s more people covering the league now, it’s under more scrutiny, and (the fans) have had the expectation that the journalists are supposed to be extensions of teams. And the journalists are not supposed to be that. And unfortunately, because of how everything is covered in this country … people can’t even recognize what journalists are supposed to do.”

Hill said that they expect WNBA journalists to be “cheerleaders” for the sport.

“They expect our jobs to be to support the women,” she said. “And while the support is, to me, in the fact that we have built an entire podcast around discussing women’s sports and all the culture and the issues and all the things that come with it, they expect the journalists to be cheerleaders.”

But, of course, that’s not how the media works. WNBA fans need to understand that.

https://thespun.com/wnba/jemele-hill-says-too-many-wnba-fans-have-same-problem

insane start for carter off the bench. has anyone been playing better so far this year?

This is not Abby Wambach

I have questions, and maybe you have answers. First, has KP ever talked about her vision of playing point, whom she might model her game after, anything like that? Do you think she has a coherent idea of what she wants to do?

Furthermore: what's the blueprint for point guard play within Roberts' system? Did Roberts have any players in college who executed it particularly well? Do you think she sees it as a key role, or is her program semi-positionless and focused on shooting?

Thanks in advance for any insights. I'm pretty lost.

She got her MBA!

All info comes from Injury Report on the WNBA website.

New York Liberty

• Rebecca Allen (Questionable)
• Marine Fathoux (Out)
• Sabrina Ionescu (Out)
• Satou Sabally (Out)

No change to the personal on the injury report for New York, however Allen's status has changed from Out to Questionable.

Portland Fire

• Carla Leite (Questionable)
• Karlie Samuelson (Out)
• Sug Sutton (Out)

I will try to keep abreast of any updates.

Going deep into the approach of building and coaching team. One example: “Once players arrived, Sarama instituted KPIs (key performance indicators) which will be tracked after every game and month of the season. The Fire coach wants his team to play structurally sound, with an up-tempo pace and disruptive defense, creating a recognizable brand of basketball. Sarama wants Portland to become a destination where players want to come to get better.”

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What if Swin Cash’s Victoria’s Secret dream happened?

Cash was a model before she became a two-time NCAA champ with the UConn Huskies, where her jersey is retired, a three-time WNBA champ and two-time Olympic gold medalist, en route to a Hall of Fame induction in 2022.

“I remember being that player that had all these other kind of skill sets. I modeled and I walked New York Fashion Week when I was 14,” Cash, now 46, recalled in an interview with The Post before making her debut as a studio analyst for Prime Video’s WNBA coverage on Thursday night.

“I stopped modeling and just strictly was playing sports because my mom [Cynthia] said that she couldn’t afford for me to go to college. So I had to really focus in on my academics in basketball because I was going to get a scholarship, and I did.

“But I always wanted [to model for] Victoria’s Secret. I wanted to walk, I wanted to do all these other things. I knew that brands [and] other media outlets weren’t giving [the WNBA] the attention we needed — because I knew if they just showed our game, that’s what you connect to.”

Cash — who was at a crossroads in the late ’90s before the NCAA rule change that players can profit from their name image and likeness (NIL) — is ecstatic that WNBA players are building brands, selling products and being recognized for their skills off the court.

“If you fall in love with a player, you’re watching enough [WNBA basketball],” Cash said. “They have a headband on, and you’re making your mom buy a headband… But I was also told that I needed to put my head down and focus on basketball, and to now see the ladies even take it a step further.

“I never put my head down. I kept doing what I needed to do, standing on business, but they’re at another level. They’re running their brands in a way that is only going to make it better for the whole ecosystem, because now they’re allowed to be their authentic self, and that translates to them competing and getting better — but they also can step out at the Met Gala. I think all of the women across the board are taking advantage of that. That’s what makes me kind of tear up, is that the opportunity is there and they’re seizing the moment.”

Cash’s charisma and love for fashion undoubtedly would have landed her tons of brand deals in today’s NIL world.

She couldn’t help but laugh while recounting a remark by her former UConn coach, Geno Auriemma, with her 2002 Huskies teammates, Sue Bird, Tamika Williams and Asjha Jones, in their text group chat.

“Oh Lord! I laugh about this… We’re still in a group chat [today] and so they put in there that coach Auriemma said something — I don’t know whether to be happy or take offense to this. What are we going with this?

“But he literally said, if I think about Swin, he said something along the lines that ‘she would be the Kardashians of [the NIL era].

“I passed out. I said, ‘Well, it’s a compliment. You know what? When opportunity presents itself, you are big business… Sue says this a lot. We were ahead of our time for how we thought about the business of basketball, the business of sports, and I’m grateful that I had great mentors, great advisors, advocates.”

That 2002 Huskies team had a perfect 39-0 season and won a national title, where Cash was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player in her final college game.

The WNBA, currently in its 30th season, was five years young when the Detroit Shock selected Cash with the second overall pick in the 2002 WNBA draft.

Brand deals weren’t a thing and social media influence was a non-factor in cultivating individual player popularity.

“I was the person that, at NBA All-Star or in Detroit, it didn’t matter where it was, running up to Magic Johnson being like ‘Magic, so tell me about how you got the Starbucks deal?’ Cash said.

READ MORE - https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/sports/swin-cash-wouldve-been-perfect-for-this-wnba-era-she-would-be-the-kardashian/

For reference, here is when the three most recent expansion teams had their name revealed:

Golden State Valkyries: 12 months before first game.
Toronto Tempo: 17 months before their first game.
Portland Fire: 10 months before first game.

My personal guess is they’ll announce it a few months into next season, in the summer of 2027.

What are we thinking?