ARLINGTON, TX — When your season gets to the point where “playing spoiler” seems like a valid form of motivation, let’s face it, you’re reached the Bad Place.

Wings head coach Chris Koclanes said in his pre-game comments that playing spoiler is “all we’re talking about here down the stretch, with [Wednesday’s loss at ] LA, you got Seattle then you got Golden State — all these teams scratching and clawing for [the seventh and eighth WNBA playoff berths].”

The Dallas Wings (9-28) have trudged through Injury Hell early, often and down the stretch this year, and when you combine bad injury luck with woeful roster construction and a first-year head coach who is learning on the job just as much as the youngest roster in the WNBA under his tutelage, that’s usually an express ticket to sports ir

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