内容摘要：“This is it,” she said, with emotion. “This has been my dream since I was 13.”

“This is it,” she said, with emotion. “This has been my dream since I was 13.”

Even so, this was a big night. And the significance of playing at the United Center wasn’t lost on the players and coaches. The Sky and Fever will meet again at the home of the NBA’s Bulls and NHL’s Blackhawks on July 27.“We just continue to make milestones for women,” Reese said. “Women belong here. I think this is gonna be the first of many. Obviously, we have two here this year. But we could continue to see this — and all our games at NBA arenas.”

Reese and Clark have helped carry the league to new heights in popularity after taking their rivalry from LSU and Iowa to the pros. They brought the style and swagger that captivated the nation when they were going at it in college and spurring debates about sport and society.But the night wasn’t just about them.“It just shows how much women’s basketball is growing, and it’s amazing to see it,” said Sky center Kamilla Cardoso, another young star.

For Fever assistant Austin Kelly, who was filling in with coach Stephanie White missing the game for personal reasons, playing at the United Center brought back memories of watching the Bulls during the Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen dynasty.“I was born in ‘89,” he said. “I played AAU basketball. We were on the road, me and my teammates were crammed into hotels — the Days Inn or whatever it was — watching them in June. A lot of memories of watching Jordan, watching the Bulls growing up. I think they were everyone’s favorite team, especially youngsters like us growing up in the ‘90s.”

Marsh said Sky player-development coach Aaron Johnson, who’s from Chicago, had this game circled on his proverbial calendar.

“Since it got announced that we would be playing this game, it was something that he really got emotional about. Not to put him on Front Street, but this is a building that he grew up idolizing and sitting in the nosebleeds, and going from that to being able to step on the floor, those are the types of moments that you can’t really put a price on,” Marsh said. You take those experiences for what it is and it comes with the moment, but also, you’re extremely excited for our players to be a part of that as well.”Like other NATO members, the U.K. has been

in February 2022. Starmer has pledged to increase British defense spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product by 2027 and to 3% by 2034.Rutte has proposed a target of 3.5% of economic output on military spending and another 1.5% on “defense-related expenditure” such as roads, bridges, airfields and sea ports. He said last week he is confident the alliance will agree to the target at its summit in The Hague on June 24-25.

At the moment, 22 of the 32 member countries meet or exceed NATO’s current 2% target.The new target would meet