WNBA playoffs predictions: Will the Liberty crush the Aces’ chances of winning back-to-back?

For basketball heads everywhere, the WNBA playoffs are an out-of-body experience.

The WNBA playoffs are here. This is when regular season records mean nothing, and wins mean everything. It’s buzzer beaters, emphatically blocked shots, “what did I just see?” moments and scoring so good you’ll need a pulse check.

For basketball heads everywhere, this is an out-of-body experience. The level of play is elevated, and so are the expectations.

Will the Lynx fly too close to the Sun? (See what I did there?) Will the Liberty crush the Aces’ chances of winning back-to-back titles?

Who wins? Who’s out?

These are your 2023 WNBA playoff predictions:

Here’s what the AP voters absolutely got right and wrong for its 2023 WNBA awards

The AP WNBA awards are out and something don’t make sense.

The WNBA regular season slate ended Sunday, giving players and coaches one final opportunity to state their case for why they should be considered among the league’s best talent.

Following the end of the season, a 12-member media group from the Associated Press votes on awards such as Most Valuable Player (MVP), Defensive Player of the Year (DPOY), Coach of the Year (COY), and more. These awards precede the league awards that will be announced during post-season play, with the coveted league MVP award announced on September 26.

Here’s what the AP voters absolutely got right and wrong for its 2023 WNBA awards:

WNBA star Napheesa Collier’s sweet Nike KD 15 player edition sneakers pay homage to her heritage

How do we get our hands on some of these?

Sneakers make the world go round.

Don’t believe me? Just ask my guy, Mike Sykes, whose ‘Kicks You Wear’ series is one of the best things going on the internet when it comes to shoe culture.

But it doesn’t even take an expert shoe evaluator like him to know that. Even myself, a washed-up former basketball player, can tell you a thing or two about how much a good shoe can change your life.

I can also spot the good from the bad. And these KD 15 player editions for WNBA superstar Napheesa Collier are good. Actually, they’re absolutely eye candy.

The colors are unique, but the message inside the tongue — “Any Na Way” — gives the shoe even more meaning.

Hopefully, we can see Phee rock these on the court soon, as she works her way back to the Minnesota Lynx after giving birth to her first child in May.

What do y’all think of these kicks?

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Kevin Durant absolutely roasted Kendrick Perkins again and it was hilarious

Ouch.

Kendrick Perkins doesn’t seem to have many friends in the NBA anymore. His work at ESPN seems to have a number of hoopers fed up with him.

One of them, most notably, is Kevin Durant. The two former teammates and friends have been on the outs for months now, but it all came to a head back in January when Perkins told Durant on Twitter he pulled the “weakest move in NBA history” by going to the Warriors.

Durant has been roasting this man ever since. It even got to the point where he called Perkins a “sellout.

The roast session continued Wednesday during Durant’s visit to the Tea with A and Phee WNBA podcast hosted by Las Vegas Aces’ forward A’ja Wilson and Minnesota forward Napheesa Collier.

The two WNBA stars asked Durant what he thought Perkins’ scoring average during Durant’s 2013-14 MVP campaign was. Durant thought it was 5.4 ppg but…it was lower. And everything took off from there.

The whole exchange was hilarious.

“Durant: No way he averaged less than 4 points per game.

Collier: He averaged 3.4. 

Durant: Oh my Gosh…Yo he really averaged 3.5 points a game? 

Wilson: That’s a good GPA. 

Collier: Less than 3.5. 

Durant: That’s terrible.”

The pettiness is palpable. Ouch. Durant called that flat out terrible and then laughed him out of the room. Perkins had it coming, though. He’s been going at Durant for years now — this is just him firing back.

This certainly won’t be the end of the saga. Just wait until Perkins hears this. He’ll probably have a lot to say.

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