You don't have to be a sports fan, let alone a WNBA fan, to know the league has been getting a lot of attention from the non-sports world as of late.

Debates involving the potential eligibility of trans athletes and accusations of racially motivated fouls against the league's biggest (white) star have, in many ways, taken the main stage away from the on-court play this season.

Everything that the WNBA is this year seemed to converge at the American Airlines Center last night, with the Indiana Fever coming to town to play the Dallas Wings.