West Coach Up for Grabs

If you're anything like me - and I sincerely hope, for your sake, that you are not - you've been wondering how the WNBA would pick the coach of this year's Western Conference All-Star team. League rules dictate that it is the coach of the previous year's WNBA Finalist from the conference, but with Sacramento's John Whisenant stepping down to work solely as a GM, this year is different.

The WNBA announced today that this year's coach will be picked as the NBA does it - by best record in the conference at a date prior to the All-Star break, in this case July 1. So there's a little extra incentive for teams to get off to a good start.