I’ll be honest — I forgot the WNBA existed until the Chicago Sky trade Elena Delle Donne to the Washington Mystics.
Delle Donne was the 2015 WNBA MVP and is one of the more known WNBA players outside of the small fanbase the league as accumulated in just over 20 years of operation.
It’s pretty easy to forget about the WNBA. The season is short and games are played at strange times or double-booked with other, more watched sports events. The WNBA Finals were played on Sundays and Thursdays in October — AKA NFL season. So the finals games – which were awesome, by the way – got relegated to ESPN2.