“It was the Alana Beard show tonight. Her performance was unbelievable. Our team goal is to get 10 steals per game, and Alana almost did that on her own. She was phenomenal.”
“Tonight, Houston just beat Detroit by a buzzer and New York lost to Connecticut. That helps us because we pick a game up on each one of our competitors.”
“[Donna Orender, who took over as president of the WNBA this year from Val Ackerman, challenges Swoopes's observations, noting:] If anything, the league has more momentum than we've ever had. Our attendance is flat, but we've generated at least 10 new sponsorships in each of our markets and we're holding our own with regards to television. At the end of the day, we will have drawn more than two million fans. ... The key to growth is getting more games on television.”
“I said it back then, that those early losses at home were going to come back and haunt us because we knew we would be playing five of our last seven on the road, ... I just knew that those early losses were going to hurt us and they have. In this league, with how even the teams are, it's critical that you win those home games.”