Streak Watch: Atlanta Dream Have Won 4 Straight (WNBA)

Every result in WNBA feeds a streak somewhere, and a few of them have now grown big enough to deserve names. Everything below comes straight off the results; nothing fancier than counting.

There are five clubs carrying streaks of three games or longer at the moment, which tells you something about how streaky this stretch of the calendar has been.

Riding high

The longest active run belongs to Atlanta Dream: four consecutive wins. Nobody stays hot forever, but while it lasts, every night has looked like a rerun of the same comfortable movie.

Dallas Wings are building a case of their own at 3 straight.

The skids

On the other side of the ledger, Portland Fire have dropped three straight. Losing streaks carry their own gravity, the pressing starts, the bounces stop cooperating, and close games keep finding the same ending.

Seattle Storm have dropped 3 in a row themselves.

Phoenix Mercury round out the skid list at 3 in a row.

By the numbers

The full board, longest runs first:

The fine print

The longest run on the board sits at 4 games, and runs that size have a way of bending a whole week's storylines around them, every broadcast, every pregame note, every nervous manager quote.

Streaks end, that is the one thing every single one of them does. They tell you where a team has been, loudly, and nothing at all about where the next game is going.