The WNBA preseason game at Scotiabank Arena was an audition for a WBNA franchise. Toronto is one of the cities frequently mentioned by commissioner Cathy Engelbert when talking about league expansion. richarddeitsch on why Canada deserves a WNBA team:
. It was a near-full arena — every seat in the upper deck was basically filled for a preseason game — filled with orange-clad fans and so many humans under the age of 18. The crowd cheered at signs such as “Future season ticket holder.” Every shot on the JumboTron had young girls somewhere on the screen.Toronto’s winter weather can be colder than Cersei Lannister, but Saturday was something out of San Diego: a 67-degree day with perfect sunshine.
One Canadian basketball junkie who watched from her home in Chicago was Stacey Dales, the NFL Network broadcaster who in a previous life was one of the best basketball players in the history of Canada. Dales was a two-time All-American at the University of Oklahoma and led the Sooners to the 2002 NCAA basketball title game before losing to an unbeaten UConn team. She was drafted by the
Tammy Sutton-Brown, who works as a director of player development for Raptors 905, the G League affiliate of the Raptors, has lived the evolution of women’s basketball in Canada. Only a sprinkle of women’s basketball club teams existed when she was growing up in Markham, Ontario, about 20 miles north of Toronto.
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