Category Archives: WNBA

Tamika Catchings hosts annual basketball camp, sells out for fifth straight year

Tamika Catchings hosted her 14th annual Holiday basketball camp this past week, allowing kids to hone their basketball skills and, more simply, get out and play while on winter break.

“I remember for me as a kid and right after Christmas,” Catchings said, “I got my presents and I played with them for the first couple of days and then I’m like, ‘I’m bored, I …

Tamika Catchings plans to retire following 2016 season

Indiana Fever Tamika Catchings plans to retire following the conclusion of the 2016 season, the 13-year pro announced on Friday.

“I will be retiring in 2016, Lord willing, if my body holds up,” Catchings said.

“Although I plan to step away as a player, that is not to say I’ll step away from the game, hopefully. I am so thankful and blessed to have had …

Tamika Catchings decides not to play in FIBA World Cup

One of the most talented players to ever play women’s basketball, Tamika Catchings, has decided it is in her best interest not to play in the FIBA World Cup with USA Basketball.

“I have fought long and hard on the decision to participate in the World Championships this year,” she wrote on Instagram. “Due to the injuries and recommendations of ‘letting my body heal’ to …

Catchings noncommittal about World Cup participation

Tamika Catchings wants one more run at a gold medal, but isn’t sure if she’ll take part in the FIBA World Cup, which begins later this month.

“I don’t know,” Catchings said Wednesday, about 15 minutes after being eliminated from the 2014 WNBA Playoffs by the Chicago Sky. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

The men’s FIBA World Cup is going on now …

Lin Dunn is done — retirement sets in for longtime Fever coach

Lin Dunn looked up at the scoreboard, shook Chicago Sky head coach Pokey Chatman’s hand at mid-court, and then it set in.

This was it.

She was done.

It was her final time walking off the basketball court as a team’s leader.

Dunn’s coaching career came to an abrupt ending Wednesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The Indiana Fever, the team she’s directed for the …

Without any rhythm all game, Fever fall to Sky — ending their season

The Indiana Fever were on the edge of advancing to their second WNBA Finals in the last three years Monday night. They came so close to finishing off the Chicago Sky on the road, but they fell in double-overtime.

The teams returned to Indianapolis for a decisive Game 3 Wednesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, where the Fever were 3-0 this season vs the Sky, …

Fever one win away from WNBA Finals

Heading into this 2014 WNBA season, the Indiana Fever weren’t expected to rule the Eastern Conference. I thought there was a high probably that they might make some considerable changes. The future appeared to be the vision rather than the present as the team drafted Natalie Achonwa, who would miss the season after tearing her left ACL while at Notre Dame, at No. 9 – …

Tully Bevilaqua thrilled about Becky Hammon’s move from the WNBA to an NBA bench

Longtime WNBA star Becky Hammon has been preparing for her post-playing career – and she already has her first opportunity. Following the conclusion of the current WNBA season, her 16th in the league, Hammon will stay in San Antonio and join the Spurs’ coaching staff as an assistant coach – a breakthrough for a female in the NBA.

One of her former teammates, Tully Bevilaqua, …