Nneka Ogwumike checks the Sparks. Plus: The player coach

No Offseason Newsletter 🏀 | This is The Athletic’s women’s basketball newsletter. Sign up here to receive No Offseason directly in your inbox. Welcome back to No Offseason! This season’s getting spicy. Today we unpack: 📍 Off days in L.A. and N.Y. 🏀 Ionescu’s debut, among others 📊 How are the Dream and Mercury trending? 🎧 WNBA mailbag Let’s go. On the Ground Tensions rise in L.A. The 30 or so minutes of practice the media gets to view aren’t always the most revelatory. You see a lot of warm-ups,