Welcome to another episode of Sports Are Fun!
Every week on Sports Are Fun! presented by Amazon Business, co-hosts soccer legend Kelley O’Hara, sports journalist Greydy Diaz, and JWS intern BJ serve up their hottest takes on the biggest women’s sports headlines.
This week, the Sports Are Fun! crew is joined on the couch by retired NWSL star and frequent co-host Merritt Mathias. And to get things started, the sports fans in residence looked back on what was a blockbuster WNBA weekend.
The question on everyone’s mind? Whether or not the league-leading Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty can run back their red-hot 2024 WNBA postseason run.
“Teams that are not having declines are the Lynx and the Liberty,” O’Hara introduces, coming off a brief chat about the early-season shakeups over at the Indiana Fever. “Both are undefeated. Phee is off to an incredible start. Continuing her monster year from Unrivaled into the league, she’s leading in points.”
“Do y’all think that we’re going to see Lynx-Liberty again in the finals this year?” she asks. “Do you think it’s too early to make that assumption? Or are we’re like, ‘No this is what we’re going to do.’”
“It’s too early. But I I am hopeful that it happens again,” says Mathias. “I thought it was an incredible…
