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Two great basketball minds discussed the Celtics' surprise ascent to the league's greatest stage in a recent podcast.

Vandersloot, who’s from Kent, Washington, entered the Sky’s game Wednesday in Seattle in fourth on the league’s career assist list, 870 behind Bird. Vandersloot had 12 assists (and Bird seven) in the Sky’s 74-71 loss.

Who will overachieve? Who will underachieve? And who is coming out on top in the Finals? Answering that in more in a preseason roundtable.

When Sue Bird talks, we listen.

Do the defending champions Sky hold the advantage heading into the 2022 season? Or does another contender look ripe for a title?

They look like a real title contender.

The legendary Seattle guard discusses the league’s biggest differences since she was drafted, the future of women’s basketball and what comes next after playing.

A stroke of fortune landed point guard Courtney Vandersloot with Sky, and she has turned herself and her team into champs.

SEATTLE — Lauren Jackson, on the shortlist of the greatest women’s basketball players in history, limped reluctantly into retirement six years ago. Her heart and mind were still willing, but her chronically ailing knees simply would not allow Jackson to play the game she had dominated for so long in…