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Hitting the Hardwood is your home for all things Minnesota Lynx related.

Hitting the Hardwood is your go-to destination for the latest Lynx and WNBA news, analysis, coverage throughout the year. Hitting the Hardwood is dedicated to providing basketball fans with podcasts, newsletters, posts, exclusive content and much more while offering in-depth interviews, news, information, reactions and coverage surrounding all things Lynx.

Hitting the Hardwood is the new home — your home — to dedicated and quality basketball coverage all year long.

Host: Mitchell Hansen

Mitchell has over a decade of experience in the communications, journalism, marketing, digital, social and creative fields, spanning from working for marketing and communication departments, media outlets, sports organizations on various levels and more. Mitchell is a proud graduate of St. Cloud State University.

Mitchell has covered sports at all levels, notably having covered the NBA and WNBA for more than seven years as of 2023. He is a WNBA and Minnesota Lynx writer and reporter for Winsidr, Canis Hoopus, Sports Betting Dime and RotoWire, also contributing as an NBA and Minnesota Timberwolves writer for Canis Hoopus. Prior to those positions, Mitchell was an NBA and WNBA writer for Zone Coverage and FanSided after spending a year as part of the Timberwolves and Lynx organization on the content team in 2016-17.

You can follow Mitchell Hansen on Twitter at @M_Hansen13.

All things Lynx and WNBA. All the time.

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