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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 18h

🔥 NEW 6th Pod 🔥

✅ WNBA Finals Check-In

🏆 In a quick episode (for us) we discuss Finals games 1&2 and make our predictions for the rest of the series. Plus: we gush over the Sixth Player of the Week.

🎧🎧 TUNE IN 🎧🎧

#WNBA
#WNBASky
#WNBAPlayoffs
#WNBAFinals

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Her Hoop Stats @herhoopstats.com · 1h

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 18h

🍎 Apple Listeners 🎧

✅ WNBA Finals Check-In

#WNBA
#WNBASky
#WNBAPlayoffs
#WNBAFinals

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WNBA FInals Check-In

Podcast Episode · The Sixth Podcast Of The Year · 10/08/2025 · 37m

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 18h

🔥 NEW 6th Pod 🔥

✅ WNBA Finals Check-In

🏆 In a quick episode (for us) we discuss Finals games 1&2 and make our predictions for the rest of the series. Plus: we gush over the Sixth Player of the Week.

🎧🎧 TUNE IN 🎧🎧

#WNBA
#WNBASky
#WNBAPlayoffs
#WNBAFinals

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 6d

6️⃣ NEW 6th Pod Of The Year 6️⃣

🔥 #WNBA Playoffs & Cathy's Downfall

👀 We talk all things WNBA playoffs

🤬 Cheryl's Crashout
🥴 Becky's Time Out
🫣 Cathy's Downfall
😤 Napheesa's Mic Drop

🚨🚨🚨 TUNE IN 🚨🚨🚨

#WNBASky
#WNBAPlayoffs
#WelcomeToTheW
#Phee #Cathy #Unrivaled

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Uncle Drew @itsuncledrew.bsky.social · 2d

Putting this out in the universe to gauge interest… serious inquires only!

Who would be interested in a “high stakes” NBA fantasy league?

- Buy-in at $150 (minimum)
- ESPN Fantasy
- 10 teams
- 1 IR spot

**Disclaimer: If I don’t know you or we don’t interact, do not waste time responding**

a man with a stack of money on his head is talking on a phone

ALT: a man with a stack of money on his head is talking on a phone

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Keith Langlois @kml7.bsky.social · 5d

J.B. Bickerstaff has been an NBA coach longer than Ron Holland II has been alive. So when Bickerstaff says this is the most excited he's been to start a season, it's worth taking notice.

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‘This is the most excited I’ve been’ – Pistons, Bickerstaff ooze positive vibes

J.B. Bickerstaff has spent more than two decades – nearly half of his 46 years – as an NBA coach.

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Annie Costabile @anniecostabile.bsky.social · 6d

NEWS: Caitlin Clark will not join the second season of Unrivaled, sources familiar with the matter told me today.

The league's second season tips off Jan. 5th and will include a slate of games being played outside of its Miami base in Philadelphia.

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Caitlin Clark Will Not Join Second Season of Unrivaled

The Fever star struggled with several injuries in her second WNBA season.

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 6d

🍎 Apple Listeners 🎧

#WNBASKY
#WNBAPlayoffs
#WelcomeToTheW
#Phee #Cathy #Unrivaled

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WNBA Playoffs and Cathy's Downfall

Podcast Episode · The Sixth Podcast Of The Year · 10/02/2025 · 1h 16m

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 6d

6️⃣ NEW 6th Pod Of The Year 6️⃣

🔥 #WNBA Playoffs & Cathy's Downfall

👀 We talk all things WNBA playoffs

🤬 Cheryl's Crashout
🥴 Becky's Time Out
🫣 Cathy's Downfall
😤 Napheesa's Mic Drop

🚨🚨🚨 TUNE IN 🚨🚨🚨

#WNBASky
#WNBAPlayoffs
#WelcomeToTheW
#Phee #Cathy #Unrivaled

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 11d

🔥 NEW EMW POD 🏀

⚔️First Of A Lifetime: A Valkyries Retrospective⚔️ Ft. CBS Sports Bay Area Reporter Matt Lively!

🎙️ @mattblively.bsky.social discusses his experience covering the Valkyries’ inaugural season from the sidelines!

#WNBA
#WNBASky
#Valkyries
#WelcomeToTheW

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First Of A Lifetime - A Valkyries Retrospective FT Matt Lively

YouTube video by East Meets West: "A Basketball State of Being"

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 13d

🔥NEW 6TH POD🔥
🗓️ 9/22

🗣️ Hell Yes We're Talking About the WNBA Playoffs 🏆

👀 In this episode, we discuss all things Playoffs!

😡 Upsets
💔 Heartbreaks
🤯 Surprises
💡Great Plays
6️⃣ Sixth Player Of the Week
👀 And more

🗣️🗣️ TUNE IN 🗣️🗣️

#WNBA
#WNBAPlayoffs
#WNBASky #WBB

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Noa Dalzell @noadalzell.bsky.social · 11d

If you're curious about the behind-the-scenes of WNBA officiating, I wrote a deep dive a few months back!
www.sbnation.com/2025/1/3/243...

How WNBA referees are scouted, trained, and held accountable, explained

The experts overseeing WNBA officiating explain everything you’ve ever wondered about the job in an exclusive sitdown with SB Nation.

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Noa Dalzell @noadalzell.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: Cheryl Reeve went nuclear in her postgame press conference, calling tonight's crew "fucking awful."

"I want to call for a change of leadership at the league level when it comes to officiating."

More:
www.sbnation.com/womens-sport...

Cheryl Reeve just had an all-time WNBA press conference

The Minnesota Lynx head coach sounded off about officiating after her team’s 84-76 loss to the Phoenix Mercury.

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 11d

Hoping for a quick and full enough recovery for Phee 🙏🏾

I hate injuries

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Moreau Sports Media @moreausports.bsky.social · 11d

Look at Phee’s knee and ankle on this play….ouch.

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 11d

🔥 NEW EMW POD 🏀

⚔️First Of A Lifetime: A Valkyries Retrospective⚔️ Ft. CBS Sports Bay Area Reporter Matt Lively!

🎙️ @mattblively.bsky.social discusses his experience covering the Valkyries’ inaugural season from the sidelines!

#WNBA
#WNBASky
#Valkyries
#WelcomeToTheW

📽️
youtu.be/nbVPisSRHvA?...

First Of A Lifetime - A Valkyries Retrospective FT Matt Lively

YouTube video by East Meets West: "A Basketball State of Being"

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 11d

Hoping for a quick and full enough recovery for Phee 🙏🏾

I hate injuries

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 12d

Like I told her, I'm a protector. I come from a different cloth, so it doesn't make me upset. I'm not those horrible individuals, nor are my friends, men in the family. Maybe one cousin, and we checked him.

Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 12d

I've also protected many lady friends. I'm surrounded by women and I've been a protector all my life.

Glad to have seen this and I'll be sure to continue and even escalate my input when dudes out of line.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 12d

This hurts

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 12d

I haven't told her that statement.

I guide.

Unfortunately she's already been through bs. In high school, her moms ex husband. I stepped in. As a teen, I fought my own father for hitting my mother and made him flee for years. Many stories. But I got you. I'll carry it along love. Sorry 🙏🏾

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Noa Dalzell @noadalzell.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: In addition to Unrivaled, there's another offseason women's basketball league that will keep WNBA players in the US in the offseason: Athletes Unlimited.

Already, Athletes Unlimited has shared the names of 5 rookies who will be participating.

More:
www.sbnation.com/womens-sport...

5 WNBA rookies will play in Unrivaled offseason alternative — including former UConn star

Te-Hina Paopao, Aneesah Morrow, Kaitlyn Chen, and other WNBA rookies will lace up for Athletes Unlimited in Nashville this WNBA offseason.

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Opinionated MJ @opinionatedmj.bsky.social · 12d

@rakshasamama.bsky.social thanks for sharing 🙏🏾

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