W.N.B.A.

Clark isn’t yet the best player the W.N.B.A. has ever seen. What can she learn from the player who is?

The two franchises, now facing each other in the league’s Finals, have built great teams—and sometimes bent the rules—with unapologetic spending and fierce competitiveness.

The N.B.A. seems to have concluded that Sarver—the majority owner of the Suns and the Mercury—behaved in a manner that was unacceptable, but forgivable.

After a career in Los Angeles, the W.N.B.A. star returned to Chicago and won a championship.

The spectacle of the empty court on Wednesday night, a stage for action rendered radiantly fallow, was a rejection of normalcy.

Amid a global pandemic and nationwide protests, the W.N.B.A. is playing basketball in a bubble. Ogwumike is trying to make sure it succeeds.