Elena Delle Donne, the Face of the WNBA

Here's the link that states that asks the hypothetical question of if Elena Delle Donne is Chicago's most famous female athlete?  A general rule about hypothetical questions as article titles is that the answer is generally "no".  (Someone forget about Sylvia Fowles?)

I'm not putting down EDD's obvious talent - she's a Rookie of the Year Lock - but if she becomes the face of the W, it will be in the same way that Molly Bolin was the face of the WBL:

* white
* blond
* good-looking
* better than average talent  (in the case of both Bolin and EDD, amazing talent)

Just ask Anna Kournikova about that.  I don't know if marketers get into the racial/heteronormative aspects (they probably use code words), but I'm sure that those three words are on someone lips in NBA/WNBA HQ.   I'd like to think that Brittney Griner or Seimone Augustus can be the face of the league.  Unfortunately, those old ways of thinking aren't dead yet.

Average Joe Average hasn't heard of her - but he's heard a lot about Brittney Griner.  If the Chicago media machine is gearing up to promote EDD in a big way, I haven't heard the gears turning down South.   Maybe someone closer to the action in Chi-town can set me straight.