Friday, October 11, 2013

Lynx come home to a Champ's welcome

The WNBA Champion Minnesota Lynx came home to a packed airport today:

The fans stretched so deep that they were blocking off the route to baggage claim. They waited patiently at the bottom of a staircase -- sometimes spontaneously breakout out in "Let's Go Lynx" chants and then burst into loud cheers when players walked down.

The Lynx had fun celebrating with fans:

Lynx players allowed other passengers to exit the airplane before they finally emerged in the terminal with Augustus holding the championship trophy. Moments later, players stood atop a flight of stairs in stunned silence as applause boomed from the fans gathered below.

The Championship parade and celebration will be Monday.

Cool bonus: The NBA's Kevin Durant says fiancee/WNBA Champ Monica Wright is the better basketball player.

4 comments:

Abacus Reveals said...

Methinks KD looked in a mirror and saw Shelden Williams rather than himself!

Anonymous said...

Minnesota Public Radio News has a fantastic 43-photo full-screen depiction of the Lynx' road to the championship.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/10/10/sport/lynx-wnba-championship-run

Sue Favor said...

Abacus, this is the first time I've seen a mean comment from you.

Scamp, thanks. Was wondering a couple weeks ago where you've been. Great link, as usual.

Abacus Reveals said...

'Twas meant tongue-in-cheek, Ms. Sue. (Thought the "Methinks" was the give-away.)
I also had thought I'd tried to softened some prior criticism of CP in that manner here before.

It certainly wasn't meant to slight Wright -- for the record, I think she was jobbed out of recognition as the Top Reserve in the league.