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Bill Simmons wrote:I took my daughter to the Sparks-Mercury WNBA playoff game. And I'll tell you what else … NO REGRETS. My daughter had a fantastic time and made me buy her a Sparks T-shirt, nachos, Sour Patch kids and a soda. We saw Floyd Mayweather and Mr. Belding. We sat next to Lisa Leslie (who couldn't be nicer). We saw Brittney Griner's first playoff game, although she was saddled by a massive knee brace and didn't look anything remotely like the Female Bill Russell … but still. We saw the best women's player of all time, Diana Taurasi, who is absolutely brilliant and killed the Sparks in the second half as I repeatedly told my daughter (who loves basketball) to watch her command of the court, watch how hard she tried on every play and watch all the subtle things she was doing. Then again, my daughter couldn't really concentrate because she was zonked out on a sugar high. I blame myself.

You know what was interesting? They gave Candace Parker the MVP before the game, even though Taurasi is still the league's best player. As Taurasi laid the smack down — 30 points and seven assists — I was sitting there thinking, This is a little like the game when Hakeem got pissed because David Robinson won the '95 MVP and decided to kick his ass. So I told my daughter the Hakeem story, but her eyes were rolling back in her head from the Sour Patch Kids, and she has no idea who Robinson and Hakeem were. Other than that, she totally followed it. Regardless, we had fun and I support any event that includes (a) getting to watch the absolute best at something (in this case, Taurasi), and (b) getting three hours of quality time with my daughter, because in five years, she won't want to hang out with me anymore and it already makes me sad.

rsavaj wrote:Merc win game 3 on the road to advance to the WCF! Crazy last 10 seconds...Parker hits a layup to put the Sparks up by 1. Merc try to get it into Taurasi but can't, so they dump it into Griner instead who hits a turnaround to put the Merc up 1 with 5 seconds left. Sparks give it to Parker but she's immediately swarmed and can't get off a good shot. Game.

NaturalBuns wrote:I don't watch any games besides last night but Griner doesn't get the ball at all. Let her go to work

rsavaj wrote:

NaturalBuns wrote:I don't watch any games besides last night but Griner doesn't get the ball at all. Let her go to work

I don't know much about her game at all, but I always heard she was more of a defensive prospect. More Russel than Wilt.

But who knows. That was a nice shot she hit over Parker last night:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmglO74qFxI[/youtube]

Penny Taylor didn't play last night. Not sure how good she is but apparently she's a pretty vital part of the team(was a big part of the last championship the Mercury won). Guess she's been injured for most of the last two seasons.

It's kinda difficult for me to watch because I have absolutely no idea about the Merc's roster except for maybe 4 or 5 players. Everybody else is just a name and a number. Still, they've won two titles since Taurasi was drafted....let's hope they can make it a third this year.