ESPN's Sunday afternoon window features rookie phenom Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever challenging veteran-laden Connecticut Sun in the first round of the WNBA playoffs.
For ESPN and the increasingly popular national spectacle of the WNBA playoffs, that means reserving the Sunday afternoon broadcast television window and dispatching the announcing A-team of Ryan Ruocco and Rebecca Lobo to Uncasville, Conn.
But for pure intrigue and attention capture, competing against the NFL behemoth, baseball’s homestretch and a presidential horse race, there is no WNBA equal for witnessing Clark’s next test — certainly not in a traditionally upset-proof first round. “I always thought this year with this group that we were a playoff team,” Fever GM Lin Dunn recently told ESPN. “The question for me now is: What can we do in the playoffs? Are we old enough, wise enough, tough enough, experienced enough to surprise some people?”Breanna Stewart will try to help the Liberty win their first title after falling in the WNBA Finals last year.But as a proxy for competitiveness, no other series is even close: The Seattle Storm are listed at +375 against the No.
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