Are super teams good for the WNBA and what it means for women’s basketball media coverage? Plus, how Brittney Griner’s story will be covered this season

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Episode 274 of the Sports Media Podcast features Chantel Jennings and Sabreena Merchant. Both Jennings and Merchant are national writers for The Athletic covering the WNBA and women’s college basketball. In this podcast, Jennings and Merchant discuss how they approach covering women’s basketball on a national level; the WNBA’s Liberty and Aces, which now feature 10 of the league’s 30 best players including Breanna Stewart Jonquel Jones, Sabrina Ionescu, A'ja Wilson, Candace Parker and Kelsey Plum, among others; how a potential super team looks in 2023 compared to the Minnesota Lynx of Maya Moore and Seimone Augustus; the player empowerment era of the WNBA; what free agency means for media coverage of the WNBA and specifically how ESPN will cover and program games this season; whether there is value in the WNBA being talked about on shows such as First Take; how Britney Griner in will be covered this year by media outlets; the 2024 WNBA Draft; whether Paige Bueckers and Aliyah Boston should use their COVID year exemption to stay in school longer; the role of sports gambling as it pertains to the WNBA; Las Vegas lines on women’s basketball; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.2	Chantelle Jennings is a national writer for the athletic covering women's college basketball in the WMBA.
1:26.2	Sabrina Merchant is a national college basketball and WNBA writer for the athletic.
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