Are you ready for some playoff basketball? Here's the schedule.

Pull up some popcorn for tonight's Dream/Shock and Storm/Sparks games on ESPN2.

While we were enjoying the start of the school year, Mechelle got busy:

Leslie looks forward to retirement

Maybe someday soon, you'll see Lisa Leslie on a ski slope. Or perhaps she'll race by you on Rollerblades. Who knows, she might even zoom by on a skateboard.

"So many times, I'll go on vacation, and I can't do much," Leslie said. "Because I can't risk getting injured. So I have ahead of me a chance to do a lot of things I've always wanted to do."

Atlanta puts together Dream of a season

After last season, the Atlanta Dream were sort of tallying up the wounds suffered during a summer of getting knocked around to the tune of a 4-30 record. There was no specific reason to think things were going to get a lot better in 2009 … except for the hope that they couldn't get worse.

Momentum, injuries to impact playoffs

If you look only at regular-season results, the quick conclusion is that the East's first-round series are lopsided and the West's are dead even. Indiana won all four of its games against Washington, while Atlanta went 3-1 against Detroit. Meanwhile, Phoenix-San Antonio and Los Angeles-Seattle split their regular-season series.

Ah, but it's quite a bit more complicated than that.

Predicting the playoff winners

Parity has made itself evident start to finish this season. So which team is the strongest? And will the strongest actually survive through the playoffs? Here are some guesses about how it might go.