WNBA Playoff Preview with LaChina Robinson

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The WNBA playoffs tip off tonight, after a season dominated by stories about Brittney Griner’s detainment in Russia. On the court, legends such as Sylvia Fowles and Sue Bird are retiring and stars like A’ja Wilson and Kelsey Plum are lighting up the next generation. Could this finally be the year for the Connecticut Sun? Or will the Chicago Sky become repeat champions? LaChina Robinson joins the show to explain the changes to the WNBA’s playoff format, and tells us what we should be watching this postseason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	LeCyna Robinson, the WMBA playoffs begin tonight and so much has happened in the sport that
0:05.1	you love and the sport that you cover.
0:07.4	And I'm just kind of struggling to describe how we got here.
0:10.7	So is there a word you want to use to describe the scene at the finish line of the regular
0:16.4	season?
0:17.4	Pablo, there is one word.
0:19.3	It has been a wild summer to say the least.
0:24.8	LeCyna Robinson is a former all ACC center at Wake Forest who is in her 15th season of
0:30.5	covering the WMBA.
0:32.8	From the playoff format change in teams fighting for hosting positions in the top four, to coming
0:40.3	down to two spots left in the top eight to get into the playoffs on the final day of
0:45.4	the regular season, we've had contract divorces.
0:49.7	We've had lots of coaching changes that played out this season.
0:53.2	I mean, it has been tumultuous and wild at best.
0:57.5	Yeah, so hold on because the format changing understand this is now best of three in the
1:02.5	first round.
1:03.5	No buys for the top seeds, no receding after the first round.
1:06.1	I get all of that.
1:07.3	But let's just walk through some of the stuff that you just said because a contract divorce.
1:11.9	What exactly happened there?
1:13.3	Yeah, well, we had two contract divorces this summer.
1:16.5	Tina Charles and the Phoenix Mercury reached an agreement to have a divorce where she actually
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