Over the weekend there was continuing (lingering) coverage in papers around the country about the Sue Bird incident. Most of the coverage was pretty boring.

As usual, though, the Courant found an intelligent angle on the story and got to the heart of the matter. The problem is that the league puts a lot of pressure on the players to create publicity. Sue was basically just trying to do what Val says.

In the article, Val says explicitly what we've all seen this year: that the league is trying to push the sexual aspect of the sport (whatever that means) to attract fans. She doesn't even really think Sue's bet was that bad: "I'm not saying that it was worth it, but I'm saying that [getting more exposure] is a very important issue."