Peter Kilkelly

I'm back writing about the W! We shall see how often, but hopefully will have at least one other post in January. fiveoutbasketball.com/2025/01/01/2...

Vindication of Walt Hopkins?

Lol Burton fouled the shit out of Gray.

Okot and Paopao is a sign Smesko is concerned about running his players into the ground.

The Dream were the 2 seed in 2018 and averaged 4100 fans. The organization correctly thought putting 3500 fans in a 3500 capacity space was better than 4000 fans in a 17k capacity space.

Seems bad to not hold the game at the tiny arena but in primetime. This isn't 1950s baseball when gate receipts mattered most. Sure it's better to have it in a bigger area but 12:30 on a Thursday is ridiculous.

Game 6 could not be more perfeclty timed to be unwatchable for me. I will have to wait until Friday morning to watch it. Pretty sure I can't go that long without being spoiled.

If Brazil actually pulls this off that is amazing. Vamos Lula!

Time to find out when/where game 6 will be.

Good challenge. I did not see a foul and the upside is a 3 point play and another foul on a Dream starter.

Skeptical of Thornton at the 5 vs Angel but it's a good gamble by Nakase. Gueye and Amihere have not done enough.

I really want to read Zach Lowe but substack is so bad. Can't bring myself yet to subscribe.

You don’t need to play ten players in a 40 minute game, especially when some of them are giving you nothing

Aminata Gueye long 2 early in the shot clock is terrible offense.

Wish the Valks had Iliana Rupert. First time this season they have really missed her. Impressive. Hope she is doing well and comes back strong.

Eh leaving Naz open makes sense. Good for her for hitting them in this game but that's definitely a trust the process moment. Valks defending that correctly, just sometimes you lose the bet.

The Ceci/Salaun vs. Charles/Thornton rotation is genuinely hard for Nakase. I have no idea which way is better.

Bad day for the “Nobody cares about the WNBA without Caitlin Clark” folks.

I don't care about the business side of basketball except that I want the players properly compensated, but it is neat to see the ratings and sellouts for the wnba finals.

Tonight’s Finals Game 3 at State Farm Arena is officially a sellout, a source confirmed to ESPN (Front Office Sports first), and that’s for the entire arena, roughly 17k seats. A huge win for the Atlanta Dream org and WNBA after figuring out a way to get Games 3 & 4 moved to the bigger venue

Hard to believe ohio gop, or gop in general, could sink so low. This is disgusting.

it should be like when someone stiffs a contractor -- tear down the electrical poles, shut down the streets around the house, no more garbage pickup, cops and fire dont respond there

I think the context makes this clip even funnier —the woman is Carolyn Swords, who was in the WNBA from 2011-2020 —the show premise is "pick a topic where you're an expert," she chose "basketball players" —Rob Lowe REPEATEDLY points out to the guy that she was in the WNBA —HE CHALLENGES HER ANYWAY

I am a wnba ref defender, could be better, especially if the mnba didn't take the best refs, but overall you won't find better women basketball refs in any other league. Including Fahey in the finals is something tho.

Time for the Dodgers come back from down 3-0?? Would be very funny.

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

Lol the Celtics sideline reporter said that Payton Pritchard got a 2 year max contract and I was like wait what but then I realized she meant the max he could be extended at. So 44 million over two years not 144 million or whatever.

Hooray! The Dream will play in an arena suitable for the Finals! Just came down from the league.

Real monkey paw curling moment with Zach Lowe back writing but it's on substack. Genuinely don't know if I will read it or not. I know it's cause substack probably paid the ringer but ghost or beehiv is right there.

I'm a basketball sicko cause I'm watching a bit of the Rockets Mavs game from this morning in China. But the upside is seeing Yao Ming and David Beckham sitting next to each other and Kevin Durant and Kyrie welcoming the fans together including a little Mandarin from KD.