The Minnesota Lynx open their semi-final playoff series against the Seattle Storm this afternoon. The Storm are, with good reason, the prohibitive favorites to advance to the WNBA Finals. The finished 18-4 on the season with a league leading 11.5 point differential, while the Lynx finished 14-8 with a 3.8 differential. The Storm also crushed the Lynx in both their meetings this season by a combined 39 points. It was not close.
With that out of the way, this is not a preview of the upcoming series. Instead, I write to celebrate what has been one of the more enjoyable Lynx seasons in my memory.