Indiana Fever and the Magasphere: a WNBA team’s dangerous path to popularity | Howard Bryant

The Guardian

Teams have always symbolized division within America. And the Fever have come to prominence during a time of dark political intensity It’s over for now, but no professional sports team spent more time receiving and drawing attention to itself than did the Indiana Fever this season. The Fever has broken, the team eliminated by the defending champion Las Vegas Aces for the second straight season, but Indiana succeeded in being the WNBA’s canary in the coal mine, embodying both the obvious and unintended consequences of rapid growth, while also allowing themselves to be a season-long…