So many season-intro pieces for Opening Day that we may not get to them all. Here, though, are a few:

New Lynx coach Zierden sets a goal: "We don't want teams to see us on their schedule and say, "Oh, good, that's an automatic 'W.'"

The Liberty learn to live without Becky Hammon. Erin Thorn: "If we want to get better we've got to get time for our younger players and that definitely opened up some minutes."

In Detroit, coach Laimbeer says this time his team could be mentally prepared to repeat: the '07 Shock, unlike the '04 disappointers, " understand how hard it is to get there and stay there."

Can't or won't make it to an arena today? ABC has Detroit-Sacramento (3:30pm Eastern) today; NBATV (and local stations) have Sun-Mystics and Mercury-SASS later on, with the Comets' first two championships in between.