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Palisades shows support for Taurasi and WNBA

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Galen Center on the USC campus is quickly filling up for tonight’s opening game of the Western Conference finals between the Sparks and San Antonio Silver Stars.

A short time ago, I noticed about a half-dozen high school-aged girls speaking with Sparks owners Kathy Goodman and Carla Christofferson. The girls were wearing Palisades High basketball warmups.

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Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi wasn’t kidding. She really did pay for Palisades to attend the game.

One of the girls said that they were here in support of the WNBA, in response to a freelance article published on latimes.com last week. The writer, a former girls’ basketball player, wrote that she was a fan of basketball, just not the WNBA. The writer quoted several girls’ basketball players from Palisades who also criticized the league.

The girls from Palisades seemed a little nervous when I pulled out my notepad, probably because they were afraid to see their names in another WNBA article. No problem, I thought. It’s safe to say, they’ve already made their point.

-- Dan Arritt

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