“Support your local women’s sports,” one fan’s shirt read at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Monday, April 27 when the arena hosted the Lynx and Team Nigeria in a preseason exhibition game. Even though the Lynx traveled over six hours to make it to Monday night’s destination, the Kansas City crowd wanted them to feel at home as if they were a “local” team. K.C. is home to various professional sports teams, including women’s teams—like the NWSL’s Current or the Glory women’s football team—but the city still doesn’t have its own WNBA team. For one night at least, Kansas City adopted Minnesota as its own, and showed the city worthy of having its own W team one day.
This matchup marked the first WNBA game to be played in Kansas City since 2005 when the Lynx previously played in a preseason game there. Ever since, the city’s been craving to have women’s professional basketball more permanently.
