As the managing editor of a site that covers multiple professional basketball teams, it’s hard to write about them around one common theme. If the NBA team is doing well, the WNBA team in the same city may be terrible.
But the reality in the D.C. area is that the Washington Mystics, the DMV’s WNBA team, has done more than its fair share of holding Washington’s reputation as a basketball city. They won a WNBA title just four years ago. And they are still riding off the coattails of that title,
But the Washington Wizards have effectively done all they can to turn the nation’s capital into a hockey town while the Washington Capitals enjoyed their heyday in the 2010s.