Value added: Post players thriving in WNBA, unlike the NBA

Post players are scoring at an historic pace in the WNBA. The top three scorers in the league all operate on the low block: Phoenix’s Brittney Griner, New York’s Tina Charles and Sylvia Fowles in Minnesota. Never in the history of the league has three post players led the WNBA in scoring in an entire season.

While the NBA has shifted to a free-flowing faster tempo that has decreased the value of a traditional center, the WNBA has not followed suit.

Where the NBA zigs, it seems the WNBA zags. And for many teams, like New York, that’s proven to be a positive.

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