Showtime! Throwtime! Whalen-to-Maya for a highlight-reel score

This is the play you should be talking about today.

August 22, 2014 at 4:01PM

With about 90 seconds left in the first quarter of Thursday night's WNBA playoff game, Monica Wright stole the ball, passed to Lindsay Whalen ... and then this happened.

Better to watch it than be told about it.

That's ESPN commentator Rebecca Lobo calling it "the most spectacular play I've seen in the WNBA this season."

So it's not just us.

By the way, this is from the WNBA's YouTube page ... and yes, the league should really take some spelling lessons when it comes to one of its top players.


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Howard Sinker

Digital Sports Editor

Howard Sinker is digital sports editor at startribune.com and curates the website's Sports Upload blog. He is also a senior instructor in Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul.

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