The transcontinental stretch of games that closed out the first half of the Washington Mystics’ 2026 season could best be described as Odyssean: six contests across 11 days, half of them against the top tier of WNBA opponents, and requiring four flights and nearly 6,500 air miles to navigate before they finally reached home. Along the way, the league’s youngest team faced nearly everything short of cyclopses, cannibals and sirens.
What to make, then, of head coach Sydney Johnson revealing late Wednesday that the top item on his All-Star break bucket list — apart from family time, a little film work and some couch-side viewing of Saturday night’s WNBA All-Star Game — is to take in the new epic remake of “The Odyssey” with his wife?
“I just really want to see that movie,” Johnson shrugged, with something short of Homeric grandeur.