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WNBA Best Bets + Historic WNBA Game at TD Garden in Boston
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8/21/2024
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Tuesday headlines around the WNBA.
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It was a historic night in Boston.
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The first ever WNBA game played inside TD Garden.
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It was a sellout crowd more than 19,000 on hand for the Connecticut
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Sun hosting the Los Angeles Sparks.
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I was trying to find the actual number to see if it did make history
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in terms of attendance marks in the WNBA.
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I was unable to find that maybe we can hear but there's
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only been five games since 2008 that have had more than 19,100
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fans in attendance in the W.
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So maybe history last night regardless of what we can say as
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you see that packed arena TD Garden was the spot to be last
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night in the Sun Victoria 69-61.
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19,156 third most attended game in the WNBA this season
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courtesy of our producer Joe Friso good with the numbers.
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They're not so much with this.
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We're not going to get into that again, but Connecticut a victory
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inside TD Garden Donnie.
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We told you yesterday keep an eye on that total in the mid 150s
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stayed well under the Sun the best offensive team in the W.
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It's always an interesting Outlook too because we knew the Sun were
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a much much better team than the Sparks and the Sparks really
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look to probably just getting beaten around like a pinata the
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rest of the season.
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But you see that final score 69-61.
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They kept it close and covered that number but you say to yourself
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was that more of we're playing in a different atmosphere as opposed
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to what we're used to we're not in our home arena.
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We're going on the road.
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It's a big environment and maybe they don't play just as well as
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they should have because you see that third quarter been 12 to 11.
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That is a really low scoring quarter by any means here in the WNBA,
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but still if you're looking for the Sun 20th win on the season,
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they got the victor.
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That's what's expected.
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He played in front of a big crowd and the WNBA continues to draw
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eyeballs.
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That's a good thing for the league.
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Yeah, there was a little bit of promise the RS for the Sparks.
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Of course, Cam Brink was the second overall pick Rekia Jackson
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out of Tennessee also drafted early by the Sparks.
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I believe fourth overall, of course, Cam Brink out for the year
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with a torn ACL.
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They started off four and seven a young team earning their lumps.
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They have lost 15 of their last 17 D.
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Janae Carrington leading scorer for Connecticut 19 points.
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She was critical and rightfully.
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So of the WNBA's lack of promotion for a historic night inside
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TD Garden.
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She showed out for the crowd in Beantown the New York Liberty
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continue to stack up the wins 24 and for now the record for New
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York best mark in the WNBA.
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They've won seven straight games all three since returning from
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the Olympic break hammering last night.
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The Dallas Wings at home by 2094 74 covering even as a 13 and a
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half point favorite.
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Yeah, we thought we might get some blowouts yesterday because
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we had some high lines and the Liberty certainly were in line
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for one of those also thought the Sun were probably in line
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for a blowout victory.
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But again Liberty playing on their home court the Sun not maybe
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that made a difference 94 to 74.
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Are they the best team now in the WNBA the oddsmakers starting
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to turn that corner from looking at her aces now over to the
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Liberty 24 and 4 on the season.
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It's pretty good ball club there.
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Two teams in the W have won at least 20 games Connecticut with
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the win last night, New York.
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The most they have 24 and the Seattle Storm who got a win
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yesterday on the road in DC against the Mystics add Gabby
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Williams.
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If you remember Gabby Williams, even from recently in the
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Olympic Games.
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She was the star for France.
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She made the long jumper with her foot on the line in the
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gold medal game against the Americans as time expired last
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played in the W for Seattle last year.
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She has been resigned by the storm the storm 18 and 10 5th
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best record 4th best record the two-time reigning WNBA title
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winners the Las Vegas Aces.
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They are 17 and 9 and the Minnesota Lynx have the third
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best record in the WNBA 19 wins for Minnesota a matchup tonight
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in Sin City.
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The ace is a six-point home favorite the over under 167 and
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a half Las Vegas has been home for its first three games since
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the Olympic break.
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They lost to New York on Saturday turned around on Sunday
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for a win over the Sparks.
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What do we expect tonight in a difficult place to get a win
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Michelob Ultra Arena?
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Yeah, it seems to take a look at the FanDuel New Jersey opening
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number somewhere around two and a half.
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Maybe one of those blank ones that just gets recorded there.
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But as high as six now as we're showing you at the FanDuel
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Sports, we've got a total of 167 and a half.
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I think the Aces are better than what they showed obviously
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against New York.
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So if we're looking at the Lynx home court or excuse me looking
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at the home court advantage versus the Lynx, I think they get
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the job done tonight.
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I think they can win this game by close to double digits.
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Asia Wilson to record a double-double.
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It's minus 330.
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Nafisa Collier for Minnesota is minus 130.
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She is back now for the Lynx, of course, was a member of the
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gold-winning team for the United States over in Paris.
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The Aces 17-9.
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The defense has not been great this year.
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Second best price to win the WNBA championship at plus 190.
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The gap is starting to widen.
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New York in front.
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They are the favorites.
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Vegas second best number.
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