Obit of the Day (Historical): P.L. Travers (1996) Helen Goff first began storytelling to calm her younger sibling when her mother told her one evening that she was going to leave and drown herself. Helen was ten.
While the WNBA season is an action-packed 34 games, many players spend their offseasons continuing to play the game of basketball. Many travel overseas to play in leagues in Russia, Israel, or Italy, just to name a few.
Currently, a maximum total of 2430 regular season games (not including 1 game playoffs) are played each year - 2178 intraleague, and 252 interleague. Each team has played 162 games since 1961 (AL) or 1962 (NL). Before that it was 154.