So they would anxiously wait to read after-game coverage in the newspaper. And occasionally she would take to Facebook to share her reactions. She’s been posting about the Lynx, her love of basketball and literal hoop dreams for years. For example:

“When he woke Sunday a.m. my husband told me he’d been dreaming he was playing basketball. (He did captain the Little Falls Flyers to a successful season, but that was in 1947.) He said, ‘I found I could touch the rim. I couldn’t do that when I was 17.’ —Dream well, friends,” she wrote in 2013.

The posts are a testament and record of her devotion to the Lynx, who she calls “tall, strong, fast girls who can pass and guard and shoot the three.”

More than once she told disappointed Vikings and Twins fans to perhaps consider supporting the state’s most accomplished professional team instead.

“Maybe one of these years the T-wolves will do something,” she said.

“I’d rather put my money on Cheryl Reeve and the girls for now.”

A 24-year-old Edina man died after crashing his motorcycle into a bridge abutment in Brooklyn Center Saturday night, according to the State Patrol.

The man was going north on Highway 252 shortly before midnight when he left the road and struck the abutment near Interstate 694, the State Patrol said in a crash report. The victim has not been identified.

On Friday, Gordon Wayne Zieman, 61, of New Brighton, died after his motorcycle hit a car whose driver was attempting to merge from the shoulder to Interstate 35W near downtown Minneapolis, according to the State Patrol.

Charles McMillian delivered some of the most poignant testimony during former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s 2021 murder trial, breaking down into sobs as he relived watching George Floyd die on the street in his south Minneapolis neighborhood.

McMillian, 64, of Minneapolis filed a legal claim against the city for emotional distress, and on Monday, a Minneapolis City Council committee will consider paying him $30,000 in a settlement out of the city’s self-insurance fund.

Messages left with McMillian and the law firm representing him weren’t returned on Friday.

Earlier this year, the City Council approved a $150,000 settlement with Donald Williams, another eyewitness who alleged that he was assaulted by police while trying to intervene in Floyd’s arrest. The city has also shelled out nearly $50 million in police brutality claims in the aftermath of Floyd’s killing.

McMillian testified during Chauvin’s trial that he was driving near Cup Foods at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue when he saw Minneapolis police officers standing by Floyd’s SUV and stopped to see what was going on.

When the officers handcuffed Floyd, walked him across the street and pinned him to the ground after a struggle in the squad car, McMillian begged Floyd not to resist arrest, yelling “you can’t win!” and “get up and get in the car!” Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t.

As video of the interaction played for jurors during the trial, with Floyd repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe and calling out “mama,” McMillian broke down sobbing, dropping his head on the witness stand. He said he felt helpless and understood Floyd’s calls for “mama” because he lost his mother, too, four years prior.

The judge stopped the trial so McMillian could take a break and gather his composure in a hallway.