The road (and days) to the conference finals

Western Conference finals:

The Lynx-Mercury series offers intriguing match ups.

Game one Friday in Phoenix will be a "white out."

Lynx:

The hard road to a Lynx dynasty.

Rookie Damiris Dantas could miss all of the West finals games due to family matters.

Today's practice report.

Mercury:

The Mercury will rely on Brittney Griner's mojo in the series with Minnesota.

Eastern Conference finals:

Fever:

Are charging into the Conference finals.

Practice report and videos.

It's harder to find Eastern Conference finals stories because the Indianapolis Star has one story today, on how Marissa Coleman likes Peyton Manning. (What relevance is this to the playoffs???) And the Chicago Sun Times has jack squat. As usual.

Non-playoff news:

Mystics:

Exit interview with Kara Lawson.

Sparks:

Candace Parker is in this week's issue of People Magazine.