When the MedStar Health Performance Center as well as the Entertainment and Sports Arena opened in 2018, Monumental Sports & Entertainment finally had a practice facility for the Washington Mystics, Wizards and Capital City Go-Go. It was, and still is a state of the art facility.
But let’s also be brutally honest. While the Mystics have their own dedicated space, that center wasn’t built for them, the facility at least was built for the Wizards first in mind. They were woefully behind in the NBA practice facility race for much of the 2000s.
Last month, Kevin Pelton of ESPN wrote a column about how WNBA teams are joining in the practice facility arms race to attract free agents, including teams that are not affiliated with an NBA team like the Mystics.