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Charles Curtis

How a grainy cell phone livestream of the Sky and Lynx WNBA preseason game got nearly 1 million views

It was the darnedest thing that happened on Friday night — with WNBA fans wanting to see the Chicago Sky (with Kamilla Cardoso and Angel Reese) and Minnesota Lynx play in their preseason game, they were mad when they found out WNBA League Pass didn’t carry it.

So they found the next best thing: someone on X (formerly Twitter) livestreaming the game while in attendance … on their phone. It came from user @heyheyitsalli, and the stream had hundreds of thousands of viewers at certain times, with The Athletic reporting it got nearly a million views total.

Here’s the livestream that popped up:

And the WNBA apologizing for its app showing the game was available on League Pass:

None other than Sue Bird reposted it!

And Alli reacted:

It IS so wild!

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