
Dan Falkenheim
Reporter at Sports Illustrated
Fact Checker and super googler at @SInow | Working on MS in Analytics @ Georgia Tech | Most of the time thinking about the WNBA, LOTR, sci-fi and film
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1 month ago |
si.com | Dan Falkenheim
When the dust settled on the four-team blockbuster trade between the Fever, Mercury, Sun and Wings—sending stars Alyssa Thomas and Satou Sabally to Phoenix—13 players and five draft picks had changed hands. It was the largest transaction in WNBA history, according to Across the Timeline, and it was only a portion of the chaos. Beyond that deal and the expansion draft, another 12 starters joined new squads.
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2 months ago |
ktla.com | Dan Falkenheim
After a chaotic free agency period and before looming collective bargaining agreement negotiations, the one thing that is all but certain is the Dallas Wings selecting Paige Bueckers with the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA draft. The rest remains an open question.
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2 months ago |
si.com | Dan Falkenheim
After a chaotic free agency period and before looming collective bargaining agreement negotiations, the one thing that is all but certain is the Dallas Wings selecting Paige Bueckers with the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA draft. The rest remains an open question.
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Mar 17, 2025 |
si.com | Dan Falkenheim
In 1998 Stanford walked into the women’s NCAA tournament as the top overall seed and with a dark cloud overhead. All Pac-10 forward Vanessa Nygaard suffered her second torn ACL in the regular-season finale and four days later, forward Kristin Folkl, the Cardinal’s leading scorer, tore her ACL. By the time No. 16 Harvard arrived at Stanford’s doorstep, malaise seemed to have already set in.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
si.com | Dan Falkenheim
Genie Bouchard needed her partner to pull his weight. About two months before her Pickleball Slam 3 doubles match against Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf for a $1 million cash purse, Bouchard approached Andy Roddick’s wife, Brooklyn Decker, at a charity tennis event in the Bahamas. “I was like, Brooklyn, you gotta make him practice,” Bouchard recalls. “She’s like, I’m trying. And Andy’s like, I am not practicing. And I was like, Dude, come on.
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When Saniya Rivers and Aneesah Morrow play with this level of tenacity, the Sun are really scrappy. That’s the blueprint for the future.

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It's really impressive how good Kiki Iriafen has been so early into her career. Would love to see the Mystics experiment more with some Iriafen and Shakira Austin lineups, although maybe Dolson's three-point shooting is needed.