Tangela Smith to play at Minnesota: an outstanding matchup!

Women's basketball, particularly among the sports, has entered a period of self-examination, a catharsis that has defined social progress through conflict for the past at least 60 years. Women must define themselves; history says women will define themselves. But I'm thinking (very scientifically only) that, because it can sometimes be blind and insensitive, it is a situation best viewed while I address my own social (and Spiritual) advocacies, respecting the space required for an effectual resolution of the relevant societal inquiries. So, I've not been out to the WNBA website, have maintained only a cursory interest in the NCAA bball season, since the US National team scored its only 6 points in the third quarter of the semifinals at worlds in October.

But I was much overjoyed to have stumbled over this 2007 Charlotte Sting Dispersal Draft Analysis (I know nothing more of the situation), indicating Tangela Smith may play for the Minnesota Lynx this summer. That's a good fit: Tangela, I believe, will enjoy it, while Minnesota now has all the tools. Charlotte was my most favorite WNBA team; with Tangela, Minnesota unquestionably now is. (I know this is only preliminary: much trading and scrambling is in the offing before season start this May.)

Notwithstanding, Chicago needed Tangela. (I've seen Candice Dupree play but the one time last season the Sky played in Houston, and she seems at least unwilling, if not incapable, of the maturity required to inspire greater achievement in her teammates.) (Tangela would have found Chicago too stressful for the kind of quiet, silky style she has when she is at her best.) Minnesota would not have done bad with Monique Currie. (In my view, Monique's effectual career span is no greater than Tangela's now.) We'll see.