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class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2020_season_at_IMG_Academy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2020_season_at_IMG_Academy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.8.1 2020 season at IMG Academy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2020_season_at_IMG_Academy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Count_It"_campaign_and_expansion_(2021–present)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Count_It"_campaign_and_expansion_(2021–present)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1.9 "Count It" campaign and expansion (2021–present) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Count_It"_campaign_and_expansion_(2021–present)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Teams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Teams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2 Teams </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Teams-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Teams subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Teams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Future_teams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Future_teams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1 Future teams </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Future_teams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Timeline" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Timeline"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.2 Timeline </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Timeline-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Relocated_teams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Relocated_teams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3 Relocated teams </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relocated_teams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Folded_teams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Folded_teams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.4 Folded teams </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Folded_teams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Relationship_with_NBA_teams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Relationship_with_NBA_teams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.5 Relationship with NBA teams </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relationship_with_NBA_teams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Season_format" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Season_format"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Season format </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Season_format-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Season format subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Season_format-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Regular_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Regular_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.1 Regular season </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Regular_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Commissioner's_Cup" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Commissioner's_Cup"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.2 Commissioner's Cup </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Commissioner's_Cup-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-All-Star_Game" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#All-Star_Game"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 All-Star Game </div> </a> <ul id="toc-All-Star_Game-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Playoffs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Playoffs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.4 Playoffs </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Playoffs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Finals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.5 Finals </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Championships" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Championships"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Championships </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Championships-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Players_and_coaches" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Players_and_coaches"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Players and coaches </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Players_and_coaches-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Players and coaches subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Players_and_coaches-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Milestones" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Milestones"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Milestones </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Milestones-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Awards </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Most_recent_award_winners" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Most_recent_award_winners"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2.1 Most recent award winners </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Most_recent_award_winners-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Retired_numbers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Retired_numbers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Retired numbers </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Retired_numbers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_international_players" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_international_players"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.4 Notable international players </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_international_players-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rules_and_regulations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rules_and_regulations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Rules and regulations </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Rules_and_regulations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Rules and regulations subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Rules_and_regulations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Court_dimensions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Court_dimensions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Court dimensions </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Court_dimensions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Business" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Business"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Business </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Business-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Business subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Business-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Finance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 Finance </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Activism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Activism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 Activism </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Activism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sponsorships" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sponsorships"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.3 Sponsorships </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sponsorships-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Salaries,_rosters,_and_collective_bargaining" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Salaries,_rosters,_and_collective_bargaining"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4 Salaries, rosters, and collective bargaining </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Salaries,_rosters,_and_collective_bargaining-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Player_revenue" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Player_revenue"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4.1 Player revenue </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Player_revenue-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Viewership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Viewership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4.2 Viewership </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Viewership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Player_marketing_agreements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Player_marketing_agreements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4.3 Player marketing agreements </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Player_marketing_agreements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-NBA_support" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#NBA_support"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4.4 NBA support </div> </a> <ul id="toc-NBA_support-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Merchandise" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Merchandise"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.5 Merchandise </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Merchandise-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Presidents_/_Commissioners" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Presidents_/_Commissioners"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.6 Presidents / Commissioners </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Presidents_/_Commissioners-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Attendance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Attendance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Attendance </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Attendance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media_coverage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media_coverage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Media coverage </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Media_coverage-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Media coverage subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Media_coverage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-WNBA_League_Pass" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#WNBA_League_Pass"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 WNBA League Pass </div> </a> <ul id="toc-WNBA_League_Pass-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Viewership_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Viewership_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Viewership </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Viewership_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-All-time_franchise_history_(through_2024)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#All-time_franchise_history_(through_2024)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 All-time franchise history (through 2024) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-All-time_franchise_history_(through_2024)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Offseason" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Offseason"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Offseason </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Offseason-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 References </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle References subsection </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13.1 Citations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-General_references" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_references"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13.2 General references </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General_references-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 15 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav 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href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qad%C4%B1n_Milli_Basketbol_Assosiasiyas%C4%B1" title="Qadın Milli Basketbol Assosiasiyası – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Qadın Milli Basketbol Assosiasiyası" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA" title="WNBA – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="WNBA" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA" title="WNBA – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="WNBA" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%E2%80%99s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women’s National Basketball Association – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Women’s National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA" title="WNBA – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="WNBA" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA" title="WNBA – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="WNBA" data-language-autonym="Euskara" 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href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA" title="WNBA – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="WNBA" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%84%EB%AF%B8_%EC%97%AC%EC%9E%90_%EB%86%8D%EA%B5%AC_%ED%98%91%ED%9A%8C" title="전미 여자 농구 협회 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="전미 여자 농구 협회" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%92%D7%AA_%D7%94-WNBA" title="ליגת ה-WNBA – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ליגת ה-WNBA" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A5%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%97%E1%83%90_%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ქალთა ნაციონალური საკალათბურთო ასოციაცია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" 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href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%E2%80%99s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women’s National Basketball Association – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Women’s National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Женска национална кошаркарска асоцијација – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Женска национална кошаркарска асоцијација" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persatuan_Bola_Keranjang_Kebangsaan_Wanita" title="Persatuan Bola Keranjang Kebangsaan Wanita – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Persatuan Bola Keranjang Kebangsaan Wanita" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Women's National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA" title="WNBA – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="WNBA" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/WNBA_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="WNBA (disambiguation)">WNBA (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with the <a href="/wiki/National_Women%27s_Basketball_Association" title="National Women's Basketball Association">National Women's Basketball Association</a>, a 1986 league.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Basketball league</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output 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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:WNBA_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/WNBA_logo.svg/220px-WNBA_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/WNBA_logo.svg/330px-WNBA_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/WNBA_logo.svg/440px-WNBA_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="146" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">April 24, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-04-24)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">First season</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_season" title="1997 WNBA season">1997</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Number of teams</th><td class="infobox-data">12 (13 in 2025 and 15 in 2026)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Domestic cup(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Current champions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> (1st title)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Most championships</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> (4 titles each)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Commissioner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cathy_Engelbert" title="Cathy Engelbert">Cathy Engelbert</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">TV partners</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>United States:</li><li><a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ABC / ESPN</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_TV" title="NBA TV">NBA TV</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amazon_Prime_Video" title="Amazon Prime Video">Amazon Prime Video</a></li><li>Canada:</li><li><a href="/wiki/The_Sports_Network" title="The Sports Network">TSN</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sportsnet" title="Sportsnet">Sportsnet</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_TV_Canada" title="NBA TV Canada">NBA TV Canada</a></li><li>International:</li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_WNBA_broadcasters" title="List of current WNBA broadcasters">see list</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wnba.com/">www.wnba.com</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2593221#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Basketball_current_event.svg/33px-Basketball_current_event.svg.png" decoding="async" width="33" height="33" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Basketball_current_event.svg/50px-Basketball_current_event.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Basketball_current_event.svg/66px-Basketball_current_event.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_Finals" title="2024 WNBA Finals">2024 WNBA Finals</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's <a href="/wiki/Professional_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Professional basketball">professional basketball</a> <a href="/wiki/Sports_league" title="Sports league">league</a> based in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and will include 13 teams as of the 2025 season. It is considered as the premier professional women's basketball league in the world.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA). League play began in 1997. The regular season runs from May to September, with each team playing 44 games. The top eight teams (regardless of conference) qualify for the playoffs, culminating in the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals" title="WNBA Finals">WNBA Finals</a>, which is played in October. The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> occurs midway through the season in July (except in <a href="/wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games" title="Summer Olympic Games">Olympic</a> years). The league hosts an annual mid-season competition, the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a>, the dates of which vary from year to year. The WNBA is an active member of <a href="/wiki/USA_Basketball" title="USA Basketball">USA Basketball</a> (USAB),<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> which is recognized by the <a href="/wiki/FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a> (International Basketball Federation) as the <a href="/wiki/Sport_governing_body" class="mw-redirect" title="Sport governing body">national governing body</a> for basketball in the United States. The league's headquarters are located in <a href="/wiki/New_York,_NY" class="mw-redirect" title="New York, NY">New York, NY</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="League_founded_and_play_begins_(1996–1997)">League founded and play begins (1996–1997)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: League founded and play begins (1996–1997)">edit</a>]</div> The creation of the WNBA was officially approved by the NBA Board of Governors on April 24, 1996,<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> and announced at a press conference with <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lobo" title="Rebecca Lobo">Rebecca Lobo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a> in attendance.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> The new WNBA had to compete with the recently formed <a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_League_(1996%E2%80%9398)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Basketball League (1996–98)">American Basketball League</a>, another professional women's basketball league that began play in the fall of 1996, but would cease operation during its 1998–99 season. The WNBA began with eight teams: the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">Charlotte Sting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Rockers" title="Cleveland Rockers">Cleveland Rockers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> in the Eastern Conference; and the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">Sacramento Monarchs</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">Utah Starzz</a> in the Western Conference.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> While not the first major women's professional basketball league in the United States (a distinction held by the defunct <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Pro_Basketball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Pro Basketball League">WBL</a>), the WNBA is the only league to receive full backing of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> The WNBA logo, "Logo Woman", paralleled the NBA logo and was selected out of 50 different designs.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> On the heels of a much-publicized gold medal run by the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics">1996</a> USA Basketball Women's National Team at the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Summer Olympic Games</a>, the WNBA began its first season on June 21, 1997. The first WNBA game featured the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> facing the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. The Liberty defeated the Sparks 67-57. A crowd of 14,284 attended the game at the <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Forum" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Western Forum">Great Western Forum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Inglewood,_California" title="Inglewood, California">Inglewood, California</a>.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The game was televised nationally in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> on the <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> television network. At the start of the 1997 season, the WNBA had television deals in with NBC (<a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> rights holder), <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Walt Disney Company">the Walt Disney Company</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hearst_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearst Corporation">Hearst Corporation</a> joint venture channels, <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime Television">Lifetime Television</a> Network. <a href="/wiki/Penny_Toler" title="Penny Toler">Penny Toler</a> scored the league's first point.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Houston_domination_and_league_expansion_(1997–2000)">Houston domination and league expansion (1997–2000)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Houston domination and league expansion (1997–2000)">edit</a>]</div> The WNBA centered its marketing campaign, dubbed "We Got Next", around stars <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lobo" title="Rebecca Lobo">Rebecca Lobo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> In the league's first season, Leslie's <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> underperformed and Swoopes sat out much of the season due to her pregnancy. Perhaps the WNBA's first star was <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="WNBA Most Valuable Player Award">MVP</a> <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cynthia Cooper</a>, Swoopes' teammate on the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a>. The Comets defeated Lobo's <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> in the first WNBA championship game.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> The initial "We Got Next" advertisement ran before each season until it was replaced with a "We Got Game" campaign. <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.jpg/190px-Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.jpg" decoding="async" width="190" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.jpg/285px-Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.jpg/380px-Sheryl_Swoopes_WNBA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="393" data-file-height="511" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a>, the first player signed (pictured in 2008)</figcaption></figure> Two teams were added in 1998 (<a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington</a>),<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> and two more in 1999 (<a href="/wiki/Orlando_Miracle" title="Orlando Miracle">Orlando</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota</a>), bringing the total number of teams in the league up to 12.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> The 1999 season began with a collective bargaining agreement between players and the league,<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> marking the first <a href="/wiki/Collective_bargaining" title="Collective bargaining">collective bargaining</a> agreement to be signed in the history of <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_professional_sports" title="Women's professional sports">women's professional sports</a>.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> That year, the WNBA also announced that it would add four more teams for the 2000 season (the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Sol" title="Miami Sol">Miami Sol</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Portland_Fire" title="Portland Fire">Portland Fire</a>), bringing the league up to 16 teams. WNBA President <a href="/wiki/Val_Ackerman" title="Val Ackerman">Val Ackerman</a> discussed expansion by saying, "This won't be the end of it. We expect to keep growing the league."<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> In 1999, the league's chief competition, the <a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_League_(1996%E2%80%931998)" title="American Basketball League (1996–1998)">American Basketball League</a> (ABL), declared bankruptcy.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Many of the ABL's star players, including several Olympic gold medalists (such as <a href="/wiki/Nikki_McCray" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikki McCray">Nikki McCray</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dawn_Staley" title="Dawn Staley">Dawn Staley</a>) and a number of standout college performers (including <a href="/wiki/Kate_Starbird" title="Kate Starbird">Kate Starbird</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Rizzotti" title="Jennifer Rizzotti">Jennifer Rizzotti</a>), joined the rosters of WNBA teams, enhancing the overall quality of play in the league[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. When a lockout resulted in an abbreviated <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> season,<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> the WNBA saw faltering TV viewership[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. On May 23, 2000, the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> became the first WNBA team to be invited to the <a href="/wiki/White_House_Rose_Garden" title="White House Rose Garden">White House Rose Garden</a>. Before this invitation, only men's sports teams had traveled to the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a>. At the end of the 2000 season, the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> won their fourth championship, capturing every title since the league's inception. Led by the "Big Three" of <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Thompson" title="Tina Thompson">Tina Thompson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cynthia Cooper</a> (who won the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award">Finals MVP</a> for all four championships), the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Comets</a> dominated every team in the league.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-Lieberman-2003-20">[20]</a> Under head coach <a href="/wiki/Van_Chancellor" title="Van Chancellor">Van Chancellor</a>, the team posted a 98–24 record their first four seasons (16–3 in the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Playoffs" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA Playoffs">Playoffs</a>). After 2000, <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cooper</a> retired from the league, and the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Comets</a>' dynasty came to an end.<a href="#cite_note-Lieberman-2003-20">[20]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="L.A._Sparks_success;_new_league_ownership_and_contraction_(2001–2002)">L.A. Sparks success; new league ownership and contraction (2001–2002)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: L.A. Sparks success; new league ownership and contraction (2001–2002)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LisaLeslieDec10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/LisaLeslieDec10.jpg/170px-LisaLeslieDec10.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/LisaLeslieDec10.jpg/255px-LisaLeslieDec10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/LisaLeslieDec10.jpg/340px-LisaLeslieDec10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1502" data-file-height="2051" /></a><figcaption>Lisa Leslie of the Sparks</figcaption></figure> The top contender in the <a href="/wiki/2001_WNBA_season" title="2001 WNBA season">2001 WNBA season</a> was the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. Led by <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a> posted a regular-season record of 28–4[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. They advanced to their first <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals" title="WNBA Finals">WNBA Finals</a> and swept the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">Charlotte Sting</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. Looking to repeat in 2002, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a> again made a strong run toward the postseason, going 25–7 in the regular season under head coach <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cooper" title="Michael Cooper">Michael Cooper</a>, who formerly for the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. Again, <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Leslie</a> dominated her opponents throughout the Playoffs, leading the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a> to a perfect 6–0 record, beating the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2002_WNBA_Finals" title="2002 WNBA Finals">2002 Finals</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. Teams and the league were collectively owned by the NBA until the end of 2002[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>], when the NBA sold WNBA teams either to their NBA counterparts in the same city or to a third party as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">dot-com bubble</a>. This led to two teams moving: Utah moved to <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio</a>, and Orlando moved to <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut</a> and became the first WNBA team to be owned by a third party instead of an <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> franchise. This sale of teams also led to two teams folding, the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Sol" title="Miami Sol">Miami Sol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Portland_Fire" title="Portland Fire">Portland Fire</a>, because new owners could not be found[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bill_Laimbeer_leaves_his_mark_(2003–2006)">Bill Laimbeer leaves his mark (2003–2006)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bill Laimbeer leaves his mark (2003–2006)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Laimbeer.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bill_Laimbeer.jpg/110px-Bill_Laimbeer.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bill_Laimbeer.jpg/165px-Bill_Laimbeer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bill_Laimbeer.jpg/220px-Bill_Laimbeer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="581" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a> successful WNBA coach known for his tough demeanor and strategic acumen on the sidelines.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Players_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Players Association">Women's National Basketball Players Association</a> (WNBPA) threatened to strike in 2003 if a new deal was not worked out between players and the league. The result was a delay in the start of the 2003 preseason and the <a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_draft" title="2003 WNBA draft">2003 WNBA draft</a>. As a result of the strike, the league received negative publicity.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> Former <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Detroit Pistons</a> forward, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a>, took over the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> in 2002 as head coach and general manager. He had high hopes for the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a>, despite the team having gone just 9–23 its previous season. Three <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Shock</a> members made it the <a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2003 WNBA All-Star Game">2003 All-Star Game</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swin_Cash" title="Swin Cash">Swin Cash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Ford" title="Cheryl Ford">Cheryl Ford</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Nolan" title="Deanna Nolan">Deanna Nolan</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Laimbeer</a> orchestrated a worst-to-first turnaround with the Shock finishing the season 25–9 and in first place in the Eastern Conference. After winning the first two rounds of the Playoffs, the Shock faced two-time champion, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_Finals" title="2003 WNBA Finals">2003 Finals</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Shock</a> defeated the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a>, winning Game Three on a three-pointer by <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Nolan" title="Deanna Nolan">Deanna Nolan</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lauren_Jackson_2a.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Lauren_Jackson_2a.JPG/160px-Lauren_Jackson_2a.JPG" decoding="async" width="160" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Lauren_Jackson_2a.JPG/240px-Lauren_Jackson_2a.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Lauren_Jackson_2a.JPG/320px-Lauren_Jackson_2a.JPG 2x" data-file-width="924" data-file-height="1440" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Jackson" title="Lauren Jackson">Lauren Jackson</a>, one of the most notable players in WNBA history.</figcaption></figure> After the <a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_season" title="2003 WNBA season">2003 season</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Rockers" title="Cleveland Rockers">Cleveland Rockers</a>, one of the league's original eight teams, folded because its owners were unwilling to continue operating the franchise[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. <a href="/wiki/Val_Ackerman" title="Val Ackerman">Val Ackerman</a>, the first WNBA president, resigned effective February 1, 2005, citing the desire to spend more time with her family. <a href="/wiki/Val_Ackerman" title="Val Ackerman">Ackerman</a> later became president of <a href="/wiki/USA_Basketball" title="USA Basketball">USA Basketball</a>. On February 15, 2005, <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> Commissioner <a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a> announced that <a href="/wiki/Donna_Orender" title="Donna Orender">Donna Orender</a>, who had been serving as the Senior Vice President of the <a href="/wiki/PGA_Tour" title="PGA Tour">PGA Tour</a> and who had played for several teams in the now-defunct <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Pro_Basketball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Pro Basketball League">Women's Pro Basketball League</a>, would be <a href="/wiki/Val_Ackerman" title="Val Ackerman">Ackerman</a>'s successor as of April 2005[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. The WNBA awarded an <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a> to <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a> (later named the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Sky</a>) in February 2006[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. In the off-season, a set of rule changes was approved that made the WNBA more like the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-2006rules-22">[22]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Citations_broken plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/40px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/60px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg/80px-Text_document_with_red_question_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article uses <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">citations</a> that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot">link to broken or outdated sources</a>. Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">improve the article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LR">addressing link rot</a> or discuss this issue on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Talk:Women's National Basketball Association">talk page</a>. (September 2024) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> In 2006, the league reached a milestone as the first team-oriented women's professional sports league to exist for ten consecutive seasons.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> On the occasion of the tenth anniversary, the WNBA released its <a href="/wiki/WNBA%27s_All-Decade_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA's All-Decade Team">All-Decade Team</a>, comprising the ten WNBA players who had contributed, through on-court play and off-court activities, the most to women's basketball during the league's existence.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] After not making it to the Finals in 2004 and 2005, the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Shock</a> bounced back in 2006 behind newly acquired <a href="/wiki/Katie_Smith" title="Katie Smith">Katie Smith</a>, along with six remaining members from their 2003 Finals run (<a href="/wiki/Swin_Cash" title="Swin Cash">Cash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Ford" title="Cheryl Ford">Ford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kedra_Holland-Corn" title="Kedra Holland-Corn">Holland-Corn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Nolan" title="Deanna Nolan">Nolan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Powell" title="Elaine Powell">Powell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Riley" title="Ruth Riley">Riley</a>). The Shock finished second in the Eastern Conference and knocked out first-seeded <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut</a> in the second round of the Playoffs. The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Shock</a> faced reigning champion <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">Sacramento Monarchs</a> in a five-game series, winning in Game Five on their home floor.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bringing_"Paul_Ball"_to_the_WNBA_(2007–2009)">Bringing "Paul Ball" to the WNBA (2007–2009)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bringing "Paul Ball" to the WNBA (2007–2009)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg/175px-Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg/263px-Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg/350px-Diana_Taurasi_2_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="799" data-file-height="1305" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a> of the Mercury</figcaption></figure> In December 2006, the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Bobcats</a> organization announced it would no longer operate the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">Charlotte Sting</a>. Soon after, the WNBA announced that the Sting would not operate for 2007. A <a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_Draft#Dispersal_Draft" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 WNBA Draft">dispersal draft</a> was held on January 8, 2007. Teams selected in inverse order of their 2006 records with <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago</a> receiving the first pick. Former <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> championship coach, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Westhead" title="Paul Westhead">Paul Westhead</a>, was named head coach of the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> on October 11, 2005, bringing his up-tempo style of play to the WNBA. This fast-paced offense was perfect for his team, especially after the league shortened the shot clock from 30 seconds to 24 seconds in 2006. Much like the early <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> championship teams, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> had risen to prominence led by their own "Big Three" of <a href="/wiki/Cappie_Pondexter" title="Cappie Pondexter">Cappie Pondexter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Penny_Taylor" title="Penny Taylor">Penny Taylor</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> were well-suited for the fast offense driven by their three stars. Phoenix averaged a league-record 88.97 points per game in 2007. Other teams could not keep up with their new style of play, and the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> were propelled into first place in the Western Conference. Facing the reigning champions, the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> imposed their high-scoring offense with hopes of capturing their first title in franchise history. Averaging 93.2 points per game in the <a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_Finals" title="2007 WNBA Finals">Finals</a>, the Mercury beat Detroit on their home floor in front of 22,076 fans in game five to claim their first-ever WNBA title.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In October 2007, the WNBA awarded another expansion franchise to <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>. Atlanta businessman Ron Terwilliger was the original owner of the new team. Citizens of <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> were voted for their choice of the new team's nickname and colors.<a href="#cite_note-DreamName-24">[24]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Dream</a>, as they were named, played their first regular-season game on May 17, losing to the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> 67–100.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tamika_Catchings.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Tamika_Catchings.jpg/175px-Tamika_Catchings.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Tamika_Catchings.jpg/263px-Tamika_Catchings.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Tamika_Catchings.jpg/350px-Tamika_Catchings.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1174" data-file-height="1964" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Tamika_Catchings" title="Tamika Catchings">Tamika Catchings</a> played for the Indiana Fever throughout her entire WNBA career.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Westhead" title="Paul Westhead">Paul Westhead</a> resigned from the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> after capturing the 2007 title and <a href="/wiki/Penny_Taylor" title="Penny Taylor">Penny Taylor</a> opted to stay <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">home</a> to prepare for the <a href="/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics" title="2008 Summer Olympics">2008 Summer Olympics</a>, causing the Mercury to falter in 2008. The team posted a 16–18 record and became the first team in WNBA history to miss the Playoffs after winning the championship in the previous season. In their place, the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> won their third championship under coach <a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a>, solidifying their place in WNBA history before <a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Laimbeer</a> resigned early in 2009, effectively ending the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Shock</a> dynasty.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] During the 2008 regular season, the first-ever outdoor professional basketball game in North America was played at <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Ashe_Stadium" title="Arthur Ashe Stadium">Arthur Ashe Stadium</a> in New York City.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> defeated the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> 71–55 in front of over 19,000 fans. Late in 2008, the WNBA took over ownership of one of the league's original franchises, the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Comets</a> ceased operations on December 1, 2008, after no owners for the franchise could be found.<a href="#cite_note-WNBA_shutting_down_league-owned_Comets-28">[28]</a> A dispersal draft took place on December 8, 2008, with the first pick, <a href="/wiki/Sancho_Lyttle" title="Sancho Lyttle">Sancho Lyttle</a>, taken by the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] After an unsatisfying conclusion in 2008, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> looked to bounce back to championship caliber. New head coach <a href="/wiki/Corey_Gaines" title="Corey Gaines">Corey Gaines</a> implemented <a href="/wiki/Paul_Westhead" title="Paul Westhead">Paul Westhead</a>'s style of play, and the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> averaged 92.82 points per game throughout the 2009 season. Helped by the return of <a href="/wiki/Penny_Taylor" title="Penny Taylor">Penny Taylor</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> once again locked up first place in the Western Conference and advanced to the <a href="/wiki/2009_WNBA_Finals" title="2009 WNBA Finals">2009 Finals</a>. The championship series was a battle of contrasting styles as the Mercury (number one league offense, 92.82 points per game) had to face the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> (number three league defense, 73.55 points per game). The series went five games, including arguably one of the most thrilling games in WNBA history in game one of the series (Phoenix winning in overtime, 120–116).<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> beat the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Fever</a> in game five, this time on their home court, capturing their second WNBA championship. Not only did <a href="/wiki/Paul_Westhead" title="Paul Westhead">Paul Westhead</a>'s system influence his <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> team, but it created a domino effect throughout the league. Young athletic players were capable of scoring more and playing at a faster pace. As a league, the 2010 average of 80.35 points per game was the best, far surpassing the 69.2 average in the league's <a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_season" title="1997 WNBA season">inaugural season</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Changing_of_the_guard_(2010–2012)">Changing of the guard (2010–2012)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Changing of the guard (2010–2012)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bird-20180912_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Bird-20180912_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Bird-20180912_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Bird-20180912_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Bird-20180912_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Bird-20180912_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Bird-20180912_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1647" data-file-height="2114" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a> playing for <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a>. Member of the <a href="/wiki/WNBA%27s_All-Decade_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA's All-Decade Team">All-Decade</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBA%27s_Top_15_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA's Top 15 Team">Top 15</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Top_20@20" title="WNBA Top 20@20">Top 20</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_W25" title="The W25">Top 25</a> teams.</figcaption></figure> On October 20, 2009, the WNBA announced that the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> would relocate to <a href="/wiki/Tulsa,_Oklahoma" title="Tulsa, Oklahoma">Tulsa, Oklahoma</a>, to become the <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">Tulsa Shock</a>.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> On November 20, 2009, the WNBA announced that the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">Sacramento Monarchs</a> had folded due to lack of support from its current owners, the <a href="/wiki/Maloof_family" title="Maloof family">Maloof family</a>, who were also the owners of the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a> at the time.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The league announced it would seek new owners to relocate the team to the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_area" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco Bay area">San Francisco Bay area</a>; however, no ownership was found and a <a href="/wiki/Dispersal_draft" title="Dispersal draft">dispersal draft</a> was held on December 14, 2009. The 2010 season saw a tight race in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Conference_(WNBA)" title="Eastern Conference (WNBA)">East</a>, with three teams being tied for first place on the final day of the regular season. Five of the six teams in the East were in first place at some point during the season. The East held a .681 winning percentage over the <a href="/wiki/Western_Conference_(WNBA)" title="Western Conference (WNBA)">West</a>, its highest ever. In the <a href="/wiki/2010_WNBA_Finals" title="2010 WNBA Finals">2010 Finals</a>, two new teams represented each conference: the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a>. Seattle made their first finals appearance since winning it all in <a href="/wiki/2004_WNBA_Finals" title="2004 WNBA Finals">2004</a>, and Atlanta, coming into the playoffs as a four seed, impressively swept its opponents in the first two rounds to advance to the Finals in only the third year of the team's existence.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] After the 2010 season, President Orender announced she would be resigning from her position as of December 31. On April 21, 2011, NBA commissioner <a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a> announced that former <a href="/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA" title="Girl Scouts of the USA">Girl Scouts of the USA</a> Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, <a href="/wiki/Laurel_J._Richie" title="Laurel J. Richie">Laurel J. Richie</a>, would assume duties as president on May 16, 2011.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Augustus_20171004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Augustus_20171004.jpg/175px-Augustus_20171004.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Augustus_20171004.jpg/263px-Augustus_20171004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Augustus_20171004.jpg/350px-Augustus_20171004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1196" data-file-height="2106" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Seimone Augustus</a> during the 2017 WNBA Finals</figcaption></figure> The 2011 season began with strong publicity brought on by the rising young stars of the league and the NBA lockout.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2011_NBA_lockout" title="2011 NBA lockout">2011 NBA lockout</a> began on July 1, 2011. Unlike the previous lockout, which affected the WNBA, president <a href="/wiki/Laurel_J._Richie" title="Laurel J. Richie">Laurel J. Richie</a> confirmed that this lockout would not affect the WNBA.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] If the NBA season was shortened or canceled, the 2012 WNBA season (including the WNBA teams still owned by NBA owners) would run as planned. The lockout ended on November 26, and NBA teams would play a 66-game regular season following the lockout. Many news outlets began covering the league more frequently. <a href="/wiki/NBA_TV" title="NBA TV">NBA TV</a>, the television home of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> scheduled over 70 regular-season games to be televised (along with a dozen more on <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ESPN2</a> and <a href="/wiki/ESPN_on_ABC" title="ESPN on ABC">ABC</a>). The new influx of young talent into the league gave many teams something to be excited about. Players like <a href="/wiki/Candace_Parker" title="Candace Parker">Candace Parker</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Lynx</a>, <a href="/wiki/DeWanna_Bonner" title="DeWanna Bonner">DeWanna Bonner</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angel_McCoughtry" title="Angel McCoughtry">Angel McCoughtry</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Dream</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Fowles" title="Sylvia Fowles">Sylvia Fowles</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Sky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Charles_(basketball)" title="Tina Charles (basketball)">Tina Charles</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Sun</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Liz_Cambage" title="Liz Cambage">Liz Cambage</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Shock</a> brought a new level of excitement to the game, adding talent to the teams of young veterans such as <a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Seimone Augustus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cappie_Pondexter" title="Cappie Pondexter">Cappie Pondexter</a>. The level of play seemed to be evidenced by higher scoring, better defense, and higher shooting percentages. By the end of the <a href="/wiki/2011_WNBA_season" title="2011 WNBA season">2011 regular season</a>, nine of the twelve teams in the league had increased attendance over their <a href="/wiki/WNBA#Attendance" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">2010 averages</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> center, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Charles_(basketball)" title="Tina Charles (basketball)">Tina Charles</a>, set a league record for double-doubles in a season with 23. Also, <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Fowles" title="Sylvia Fowles">Sylvia Fowles</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> became only the second player in WNBA history to finish a season averaging at least 20 points (20.0ppg) and 10 rebounds (10.2rpg) per game. The <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Silver_Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio Silver Stars">San Antonio Silver Stars</a> experienced boosts from their young players as well; rookie <a href="/wiki/Danielle_Adams" title="Danielle Adams">Danielle Adams</a> scored 32 points off the bench in June and fellow rookie <a href="/wiki/Danielle_Robinson" title="Danielle Robinson">Danielle Robinson</a> had a 36-point game in September. <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> forward, <a href="/wiki/Angel_McCoughtry" title="Angel McCoughtry">Angel McCoughtry</a>, was the first player in league history to average over 20 points per game (21.6ppg) while playing under 30 minutes per game (27.9mpg). McCoughtry led her team to the <a href="/wiki/2011_WNBA_Finals" title="2011 WNBA Finals">Finals</a> for the second straight year, but despite breaking her own Finals scoring record, the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Dream</a> were swept for the second straight year, this time by the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a>, which won its first title behind a fully healthy <a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Seimone Augustus</a>. 2012 featured a long <a href="/wiki/2012_Olympic_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 Olympic Games">Olympic</a> break. The <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> won that year's WNBA championship. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Three_to_See_(2013–2019)">The Three to See (2013–2019)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Three to See (2013–2019)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moore_Perkins_Carson_Beard_20171004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Moore_Perkins_Carson_Beard_20171004.jpg/220px-Moore_Perkins_Carson_Beard_20171004.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Moore_Perkins_Carson_Beard_20171004.jpg/330px-Moore_Perkins_Carson_Beard_20171004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Moore_Perkins_Carson_Beard_20171004.jpg/440px-Moore_Perkins_Carson_Beard_20171004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a> during the Lynx's championship-clinching game 5 of the 2017 WNBA Finals</figcaption></figure> The much-publicized <a href="/wiki/2013_WNBA_draft" title="2013 WNBA draft">2013 WNBA draft</a> produced Baylor University star <a href="/wiki/Brittney_Griner" title="Brittney Griner">Brittney Griner</a>, Delaware's <a href="/wiki/Elena_Delle_Donne" title="Elena Delle Donne">Elena Delle Donne</a>, and Notre Dame All American <a href="/wiki/Skylar_Diggins-Smith" title="Skylar Diggins-Smith">Skylar Diggins</a> (now Diggins-Smith) as the top three picks. The draft was the first to be televised in primetime on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>. Griner, Delle Donne, and Diggins were thus labeled "The Three To See." With the draft came other standouts such as <a href="/wiki/Tayler_Hill" title="Tayler Hill">Tayler Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Layshia_Clarendon" title="Layshia Clarendon">Layshia Clarendon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Bentley" title="Alex Bentley">Alex Bentley</a>. The retirement of legends <a href="/wiki/Katie_Smith" title="Katie Smith">Katie Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Thompson" title="Tina Thompson">Tina Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ticha_Penicheiro" title="Ticha Penicheiro">Ticha Penicheiro</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a> coupled with the arrival of highly touted rookies and new rule changes effectively marked the end of an era for the WNBA and the ushering of another. [<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] On the court, the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> won their second title in three years, defeating the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2013_WNBA_Finals" title="2013 WNBA Finals">Finals</a> and becoming the first team to sweep the playoff series since the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a>. The promotion of <a href="/wiki/Brittney_Griner" title="Brittney Griner">Griner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elena_Delle_Donne" title="Elena Delle Donne">Delle Donne</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Skylar_Diggins-Smith" title="Skylar Diggins-Smith">Diggins</a> helped boost television ratings for the league by 28 percent, and half of the teams ended the season profitable.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> The improved health of the league was on display after the season, when the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a>' ownership group folded; it took the league only a few weeks to line up <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Partners" title="Guggenheim Partners">Guggenheim Partners</a> to purchase the team, and the franchise also garnered interest from the ownership of the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Two more franchise relocations happened in the following years, as the <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">Tulsa Shock</a> moved in 2016 to the <a href="/wiki/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas–Fort Worth">Dallas–Fort Worth</a> region in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> and were renamed the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a>,<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> and in 2018 the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio Stars</a> went to <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, becoming the <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a>.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_CBA_and_Commissioner's_Cup_plans_(2020)">New CBA and <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a> plans (2020)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: New CBA and Commissioner's Cup plans (2020)">edit</a>]</div> During the 2018 season, the WNBA players' union opted out of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the league, which ended after the 2019 season. In January 2020, the league and union announced that they had reached an agreement on a new CBA to take effect with the 2020 season and running through 2027. Among the features of the new agreement were:<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <ul><li>Total player compensation increased by slightly more than 50%. While most of this increases went to star players, all players benefited to some degree, and both sides were interested mainly in limiting, if not eliminating, overseas play by the league's top players.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>Players were able to reach unrestricted free agency a year earlier than before. The previous CBA allowed a team to designate a player as "core"—similar to the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL's</a> <a href="/wiki/Franchise_tag" title="Franchise tag">franchise tag</a>—four times. This dropped to three in 2020 and will drop further to two in 2022.</li> <li>All player air travel to regular-season games would be, at a minimum, premium economy class. Also, each player would have her own hotel room for road games.</li> <li>Players would receive their full salary while on maternity leave. Additionally, an annual childcare stipend of $5,000 per player would be provided; teams would make apartments of at least two bedrooms available to players with children, and add facilities for nursing mothers; and the league would offer family planning benefits that would allow up to a $60,000 reimbursement for veteran players for expenses related to adoption, surrogacy, embryo preservation, or infertility treatment.</li> <li>The CBA would begin penalizing veteran players for late arrival at WNBA training camps. By the sixth year of the CBA, players with more than 2 years of service who missed the start of training camp would be suspended for the season. Exceptions included serious injury, national team commitments for non-US players, college graduations, and other significant life events.</li> <li>The CBA also addressed the issue of players serving on <a href="/wiki/NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA">NBA</a> coaching staffs during the traditional basketball season. This came to a head during the 2019 offseason when the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Wizards" title="Washington Wizards">Washington Wizards</a>, owned by the same company that owns the WNBA's <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Mystics</a>, hired Mystics player <a href="/wiki/Kristi_Toliver" title="Kristi Toliver">Kristi Toliver</a> as an assistant. Under the previous CBA, teams were allowed only $50,000 per year to allocate to players as an enticement to not play overseas. Because of the Mystics' and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Wizards" title="Washington Wizards">Wizards</a>' shared ownership, the Wizards could only pay Toliver from the Mystics' $50,000 allocation—most of which had already been committed to <a href="/wiki/Elena_Delle_Donne" title="Elena Delle Donne">Elena Delle Donne</a>, a player who normally does not go overseas. With the new CBA, veteran players could work as coaches in the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> without a salary limit, regardless of the team's ownership structure.</li></ul> Also in January 2020, the WNBA announced a new in-season tournament, the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a>, which would begin with the 2020 season. Each team was scheduled to play 10 Cup games during the season: specifically, the first home and road games against each team in its conference. The final Cup games were to be played in July, with the top team in the Cup standings from each conference advancing to a one-off Cup final in August.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> The 2020 WNBA schedule originally included a month-long break in July and August to allow players to participate in the <a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Tokyo Olympics</a>. The 2020 games were postponed until 2021, due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, rendering the break unnecessary. On April 3, 2020, the WNBA announced that the beginning of its own schedule would be postponed. The <a href="/wiki/2020_WNBA_draft" title="2020 WNBA draft">2020 entry draft</a> took place as originally scheduled on April 17, although it was done remotely.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> No details of the revised schedule were announced as of the time of the draft, and the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a> was ultimately not held in 2020. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2020_season_at_IMG_Academy">2020 season at IMG Academy</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2020 season at IMG Academy">edit</a>]</div> In June 2020, WNBA Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Cathy_Engelbert" title="Cathy Engelbert">Cathy Engelbert</a> announced plans for the league to have a 22-game regular season, and a traditional playoff format, to be held exclusively at <a href="/wiki/IMG_Academy" title="IMG Academy">IMG Academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bradenton,_Florida" title="Bradenton, Florida">Bradenton, Florida</a>. The players were housed at the Bradenton complex, and all games and practices took place there. Players had until June 25 to let their teams know whether they planned to participate.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Count_It"_campaign_and_expansion_(2021–present)">"Count It" campaign and expansion (2021–present)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: "Count It" campaign and expansion (2021–present)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BreannaStewart_foulshot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/BreannaStewart_foulshot.jpg/220px-BreannaStewart_foulshot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/BreannaStewart_foulshot.jpg/330px-BreannaStewart_foulshot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/BreannaStewart_foulshot.jpg/440px-BreannaStewart_foulshot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="709" data-file-height="766" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Breanna Stewart</a> known for her versatile skills.</figcaption></figure> On March 15, 2021, an announcement was made that the WNBA would introduce a ceremonial logo, basketball, and uniforms as part of its 25th anniversary celebratory campaign called "Count It".<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> As part of the campaign, the league unveiled <a href="/wiki/The_W25" title="The W25">The W25</a>, consisting of 25 players determined to be the league's greatest and most influential, as chosen by a panel of media and pioneering women's players.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> The delayed launch of the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a> was officially announced on May 12, 2021, two days before the start of the regular season. The originally planned schedule, with the first home game and first road game of each team against each of its fellow conference members doubling as Cup games, was maintained. All Cup games within each conference were played before the league took its <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic</a> break after July 11. The Cup final, officially termed the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a> Championship Game, involves the conference leaders in the Cup standings; its first edition was held on August 12 as the league's first game after the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic</a> break, and was streamed via <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Prime_Video" title="Amazon Prime Video">Amazon Prime Video</a>. A prize pool of $500,000 is provided for the Cup, with players on the winning team guaranteed a minimum bonus of $30,000 and those of the losing team guaranteed $10,000, with the championship game MVP receiving an extra $5,000.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> In February 2022, $75 million in capital was raised by the league, with the increase valuing the league at $475 million. 16 percent in equity in the league was given to investors as part of the deal. In mid-2022, Engelbert said that the WNBA hoped to identify one or two cities for expansion either by the start of that year's playoffs or by the end of the year, with the teams starting play as early as the <a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_season" title="2024 WNBA season">2024 season</a>. The WNBA narrowed its list of potential cities from 100 to 20 to 10. The league would evaluate each city through 25 metrics in the categories of viewership, fan data, psychographics, sports benchmarks, and demographics. There were constant demands for expansion as Englebert was commissioner with lottery picks cut during their first season and long-time veterans cut during training camp due to the limited number of roster spots in the league.<a href="#cite_note-:2-45">[45]</a> On September 26, 2023, The Athletic reported that the co-owners of the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Lacob" title="Joe Lacob">Joe Lacob</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Guber" title="Peter Guber">Peter Guber</a>, were finalizing an agreement to start an expansion team in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> On October 5, 2023, the agreement was formally announced. The team, which will play at <a href="/wiki/Chase_Center" title="Chase Center">Chase Center</a> and be headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland</a>, will begin playing in the 2025 season, and are the league's first expansion team since the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> in 2008.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> There will be an expansion draft in December 2024.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> It was reported that the expansion fee for the team was $50 million over ten years.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> On the same date, WNBA commissioner <a href="/wiki/Cathy_Engelbert" title="Cathy Engelbert">Cathy Englebert</a> said that she expected a 14th team to be added to the WNBA by 2025, and mentioned that there were groups expressing serious interest in a franchise in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> On May 23, 2024, it was officially announced that the Kilmer Group had acquired a franchise based in Toronto that will debut in 2026.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> On August 31, 2024, it was reported that the Bhathal family, owners of the <a href="/wiki/NWSL" class="mw-redirect" title="NWSL">NWSL</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Portland_Thorns" class="mw-redirect" title="Portland Thorns">Portland Thorns</a>, was in negotiations to acquire a franchise based in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> The new Portland expansion team was officially announced on September 18, 2024 and will also debut in 2026.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Teams">Teams</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Teams">edit</a>]</div> <div role="img" class="floatright noresize" style="width: 500px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative;"><a href="/wiki/File:WNBA_Map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/WNBA_Map.png/500px-WNBA_Map.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/WNBA_Map.png/750px-WNBA_Map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/WNBA_Map.png 2x" data-file-width="946" data-file-height="596" /></a> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:409px; top:94px"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">Liberty</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:462px; top:85px"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Sun</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:299px; top:109px"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Sky</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:305px; top:132px"><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Fever</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:369px; top:204px"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Dream</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:426px; top:131px"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Mystics</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:219px; top:217px"><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Wings</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:249px; top:71px"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Lynx</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:54px; top:19px"><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Storm</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:101px; top:187px"><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:46px; top:172px"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:76px; top:152px"><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Aces</a></div> <div style="position:absolute; font-size:85%; left:24px; top:127px"><a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Valkyries" title="Golden State Valkyries">Valkyries</a></div> </div> The WNBA originated with 8 teams in 1997, and through a sequence of expansions, contractions, and relocations will consist of 13 teams as of the 2025 season and a total of 19 franchises in WNBA history. As of the league's <a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_season" title="2024 WNBA season">2024 season</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> (formerly the <a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">Utah Starzz</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio (Silver) Stars</a>), <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> are the only remaining franchises that were founded in 1997. Arenas listed below reflect those that will be in use during the 2025 season. <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" border="1"> <caption>Key </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Symbol </th> <th scope="col">Meaning </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;">* </th> <td>Franchise has relocated at some point in its existence </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Overview of WNBA teams – 2025 season </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Conference </th> <th>Team </th> <th>City </th> <th>Arena </th> <th>Capacity </th> <th>Joined </th> <th>Head coach </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="7" style="background-color: #FA4D00 !important; color: #000000 !important; ; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Conference_(WNBA)" title="Eastern Conference (WNBA)">Eastern</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/College_Park,_Georgia" title="College Park, Georgia">College Park, Georgia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gateway_Center_Arena" title="Gateway Center Arena">Gateway Center Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">3,500 </td> <td align="center">2008 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Karl_Smesko" title="Karl Smesko">Karl Smesko</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago, Illinois</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wintrust_Arena" title="Wintrust Arena">Wintrust Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">10,387 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2006 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tyler_Marsh" title="Tyler Marsh">Tyler Marsh</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Uncasville,_Connecticut" title="Uncasville, Connecticut">Uncasville, Connecticut</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohegan_Sun_Arena" title="Mohegan Sun Arena">Mohegan Sun Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">9,323 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1999* </td> <td>Vacant </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis, Indiana</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gainbridge_Fieldhouse" title="Gainbridge Fieldhouse">Gainbridge Fieldhouse</a> </td> <td align="center">17,923 </td> <td align="center">2000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stephanie_White" title="Stephanie White">Stephanie White</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn, New York</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barclays_Center" title="Barclays Center">Barclays Center</a> </td> <td align="center">17,732 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1997 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Brondello" title="Sandy Brondello">Sandy Brondello</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Entertainment_and_Sports_Arena" title="Entertainment and Sports Arena">Entertainment and Sports Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">4,200 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1998 </td> <td>Vacant </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="8" style="background-color: #000000 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Western_Conference_(WNBA)" title="Western Conference (WNBA)">Western</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Texas" title="Arlington, Texas">Arlington, Texas</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/College_Park_Center" title="College Park Center">College Park Center</a> </td> <td align="center">7,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1998* </td> <td>Vacant </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Valkyries" title="Golden State Valkyries">Golden State Valkyries</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco, California</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chase_Center" title="Chase Center">Chase Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,064 </td> <td align="center">2025 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Natalie_Nakase" title="Natalie Nakase">Natalie Nakase</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Paradise,_Nevada" title="Paradise, Nevada">Paradise, Nevada</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michelob_Ultra_Arena" title="Michelob Ultra Arena">Michelob Ultra Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">12,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1997* </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Becky_Hammon" title="Becky Hammon">Becky Hammon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles, California</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Crypto.com_Arena" title="Crypto.com Arena">Crypto.com Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">18,997 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1997 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lynne_Roberts_(basketball)" title="Lynne Roberts (basketball)">Lynne Roberts</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis, Minnesota</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Target_Center" title="Target Center">Target Center</a> </td> <td align="center">19,356 </td> <td align="center">1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix, Arizona</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Footprint_Center" title="Footprint Center">Footprint Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,422 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1997 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nate_Tibbetts" title="Nate Tibbetts">Nate Tibbetts</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle, Washington</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Climate_Pledge_Arena" title="Climate Pledge Arena">Climate Pledge Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">18,100 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">2000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Noelle_Quinn" title="Noelle Quinn">Noelle Quinn</a> </td></tr></tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Future_teams">Future teams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Future teams">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Planned WNBA teams </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Team </th> <th scope="col">City </th> <th scope="col">Arena </th> <th scope="col">Capacity </th> <th scope="col">Joining </th> <th scope="col">Head coach </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Toronto_WNBA_team" title="Toronto WNBA team">Toronto WNBA team</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto, Ontario</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola_Coliseum" title="Coca-Cola Coliseum">Coca-Cola Coliseum</a> </td> <td align="center">8,700 </td> <td align="center">2026 </td> <td>TBA </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Portland_WNBA_team" title="Portland WNBA team">Portland WNBA team</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moda_Center" title="Moda Center">Moda Center</a> </td> <td align="center">19,393 </td> <td align="center">2026 </td> <td>TBA </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Timeline">Timeline</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Timeline">edit</a>]</div> Current member Former member Relocated member Future member <div class="timeline-wrapper"><map name="timeline_0carefvo8dc10zvm27rfsi5pb931lm2"><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Portland_WNBA_team" coords="860,389,1001,410" title="Portland WNBA team" alt="Portland WNBA team" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Toronto_WNBA_team" coords="860,370,996,391" title="Toronto WNBA team" alt="Toronto WNBA team" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Golden_State_Valkyries" coords="830,351,993,372" title="Golden State Valkyries" alt="Golden State Valkyries" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" coords="319,332,433,353" title="Atlanta Dream" alt="Atlanta Dream" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" coords="260,313,362,334" title="Chicago Sky" alt="Chicago Sky" /><area shape="rect" 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shape="rect" href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" coords="-10,84,120,105" title="New York Liberty" alt="New York Liberty" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" coords="-10,65,137,86" title="Sacramento Monarchs" alt="Sacramento Monarchs" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" coords="-10,46,109,67" title="Houston Comets" alt="Houston Comets" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" coords="-10,27,115,48" title="Charlotte Sting" alt="Charlotte Sting" /><area shape="rect" href="/wiki/Cleveland_Rockers" coords="-10,8,126,29" title="Cleveland Rockers" alt="Cleveland Rockers" /></map><img usemap="#timeline_0carefvo8dc10zvm27rfsi5pb931lm2" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/0carefvo8dc10zvm27rfsi5pb931lm2.png" /></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"> <caption>WNBA expansion and contraction </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Season(s)</th> <th>No. of teams </th></tr> <tr> <td>1997</td> <td>8 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998</td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999</td> <td>12 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000–2002</td> <td>16 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003</td> <td>14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004–2005</td> <td>13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006</td> <td>14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007</td> <td>13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008</td> <td>14 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009</td> <td>13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010–2024</td> <td>12 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2025</td> <td>13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2026–future</td> <td>15 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relocated_teams">Relocated teams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Relocated teams">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Miracle" title="Orlando Miracle">Orlando Miracle</a> (1999–2002) – relocated to <a href="/wiki/Uncasville,_Connecticut" title="Uncasville, Connecticut">Uncasville, Connecticut</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">Utah Starzz</a> (1997–2002) – relocated to <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a> to become the San Antonio Silver Stars (2003–2013), rebranded as the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio Stars</a> (2014–2017), and relocated again to <a href="/wiki/Paradise,_Nevada" title="Paradise, Nevada">Paradise, Nevada</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> (1998–2009) – relocated to <a href="/wiki/Tulsa,_Oklahoma" title="Tulsa, Oklahoma">Tulsa, Oklahoma</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">Tulsa Shock</a> (2010–2015) and then to <a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Texas" title="Arlington, Texas">Arlington, Texas</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Folded_teams">Folded teams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Folded teams">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">Charlotte Sting</a> – 1997–2006</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Rockers" title="Cleveland Rockers">Cleveland Rockers</a> – 1997–2003</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> – 1997–2008</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miami_Sol" title="Miami Sol">Miami Sol</a> – 2000–2002</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland_Fire" title="Portland Fire">Portland Fire</a> – 2000–2002</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">Sacramento Monarchs</a> – 1997–2009</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relationship_with_NBA_teams">Relationship with NBA teams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Relationship with NBA teams">edit</a>]</div> Five WNBA teams have direct <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> counterparts and normally play in the same arena: <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a>), <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">Brooklyn Nets</a>), <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> (<a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Timberwolves" title="Minnesota Timberwolves">Minnesota Timberwolves</a>), <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> (<a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> (<a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a>). The <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> do not share an arena with a direct NBA counterpart, although four of the seven (the Dream, the Sky, the Wings, and the Mystics) share a market with an NBA counterpart, while the Storm shared an arena and market with an NBA team, the <a href="/wiki/SuperSonics" class="mw-redirect" title="SuperSonics">SuperSonics</a>, at the time of its founding. The Dream, Sky, Sun, Wings, Aces, Sparks, and Storm are all independently owned. Six current WNBA teams and two of the three future teams are associated with an <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> team from the same market and are known as sister teams. These teams include the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">Brooklyn Nets</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Fever</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Timberwolves" title="Minnesota Timberwolves">Minnesota Timberwolves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Lynx</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Wizards" title="Washington Wizards">Washington Wizards</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Mystics</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> and the future <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Valkyries" title="Golden State Valkyries">Valkyries</a> (2025), and the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_WNBA_team" title="Toronto WNBA team">city's future team</a> (2026). Of these teams, only the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Sparks</a> have completely separate ownership. The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">Liberty</a> were previously associated with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a>, having been owned by the Knicks' parent company, The <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Madison Square Garden Company">Madison Square Garden Company</a>,<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> but the team was sold in January 2019 to a group led by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Tsai" title="Joseph Tsai">Joseph Tsai</a>, then a minority owner of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">Brooklyn Nets</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> and now sole owner of that team.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> The Liberty, which played at <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> from 1997 until 2017, were then relocated from the <a href="/wiki/Westchester_County_Center" title="Westchester County Center">Westchester County Center</a> in suburban White Plains to the Nets' home arena, <a href="/wiki/Barclays_Center" title="Barclays Center">Barclays Center</a> in downtown Brooklyn. Through the 2017 season, the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">San Antonio Spurs</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">Stars</a> were also paired, but that relationship ended in October 2017 when the Stars were bought by <a href="/wiki/MGM_Resorts_International" title="MGM Resorts International">MGM Resorts International</a> and moved to <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Stars_move-59">[59]</a> The remaining WNBA team, the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a>, was formerly the sister team of the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">SuperSonics</a>, but was sold to a Seattle-based group when the SuperSonics <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics_relocation_to_Oklahoma_City" title="Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City">relocated</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a>. Three current WNBA teams, and one future team, are in the same market as an NBA team, but are not affiliated. The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> are not affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Bulls</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a> are not affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks" title="Dallas Mavericks">Mavericks</a>. This can be evidenced by both WNBA teams playing in separate arenas from their NBA counterparts. While the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> shared <a href="/wiki/State_Farm_Arena" title="State Farm Arena">State Farm Arena</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks" title="Atlanta Hawks">Hawks</a> from 2008 to 2016 and again in 2019, the Hawks never held any ownership stake in the WNBA team. The <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> share an arena with the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a>. Lakers' legend <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Magic Johnson</a> has an ownership stake in the Sparks. The future Portland team plans to start play in the <a href="/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers" title="Portland Trail Blazers">Trail Blazers</a>' home of <a href="/wiki/Moda_Center" title="Moda Center">Moda Center</a>, but does not share ownership with the NBA team; the WNBA team instead shares ownership with the <a href="/wiki/Portland_Thorns_FC" title="Portland Thorns FC">city's women's soccer team</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">Utah Starzz</a> were affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Utah_Jazz" title="Utah Jazz">Jazz</a> before relocating to San Antonio as the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">Silver Stars</a> in 2003; the Silver Stars (shortened to Stars in 2014) were affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">Spurs</a> from 2003 until relocating to <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Aces</a> in 2017. The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> was the sister team of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Pistons</a> until the teams' owner sold the Shock to investors who <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">moved the team</a> to <a href="/wiki/Tulsa,_Oklahoma" title="Tulsa, Oklahoma">Tulsa, Oklahoma</a>. The franchise relocated again in 2016, this time to the <a href="/wiki/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth_metroplex" title="Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex">Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Season_format">Season format</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Season format">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regular_season">Regular season</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Regular season">edit</a>]</div> Teams hold training camps in May. Training camps allow the coaching staff to prepare the players for the regular season and determine the 12-woman roster with which they will begin the regular season.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] After training camp, a series of preseason exhibition games are held. The WNBA regular season begins in May. In 2023 and 2024, each team played 40 regular-season games, 20 each home and away. With the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Valkyries" title="Golden State Valkyries">Golden State Valkyries</a> joining the league in 2025, the regular season will expand to 44 games.<a href="#cite_note-2025format-60">[60]</a> As in the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>, each team hosts and visits every other team at least once every season. During years in which the <a href="/wiki/Summer_Olympic_Games" title="Summer Olympic Games">Summer Olympics</a> are held, the WNBA takes a month off in the middle of the season to allow players to practice and compete with their respective national teams. During years in which the <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">FIBA World Cup</a> is held, the WNBA either takes a break for the World Cup or ends its season early, depending on the scheduling of the World Cup. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commissioner's_Cup"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a></h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Commissioner's Cup">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">WNBA Commissioner's Cup</a></div> The 2020 season was planned to be the first for the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a>, an in-season tournament. Each team's first home and away games against each of its conference opponents, all of which were to be played in the first half of the season, were designated as Cup games. After each team played its 10 Cup games, the top team in each conference's Cup standings would advance to the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a> Final, a single match held in August. The <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a> caused the tournament to be scrapped for the time being; the tournament instead launched in 2021 under the originally announced format.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The format was changed for the 2024 season. Each team now plays only one <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a> game against each team in its conference, with either two or three games at home and the remainder away. All games in the first half of June are Cup contests. The Cup final, which remains a single game featuring the top teams in each conference's Cup standings, is now held near the end of June. Under both formats, all Cup games except the final count as regular-season games. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="All-Star_Game">All-Star Game</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: All-Star Game">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">WNBA All-Star Game</a></div> In 1999, the league held its first All-Star Game, where the best players of the Eastern Conference played against the best players of the Western Conference. The West dominated play until 2006, when the East finally won a game. In July, the regular season pauses to celebrate the annual <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">WNBA All-Star Game</a>. The game is part of a weekend-long event, held in a selected WNBA city each year. The game is played on the selected WNBA team's home court. Through the 2017 edition, the All-Star Game featured star players from the Western Conference facing star players from the Eastern Conference. Since 2018, conference affiliations have been ignored in team selections. During the season, voting for All-Star starters takes place among fans, WNBA players, and sports media members. The starters are selected by a weighted vote (fans 50%, players and media 25% each), while reserves are selected by the league's head coaches. The two players with the most fan votes are named team captains, who then fill out their teams in a draft format similar to that currently used for the <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Game" title="NBA All-Star Game">NBA All-Star Game</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 2004, <a href="/wiki/The_Game_at_Radio_City" title="The Game at Radio City">The Game at Radio City</a> was held in place of a traditional All-Star Game. The 2006 All-Star Game was the first game to feature custom uniforms that match the decade anniversary logo. From 2008 through 2016, no All-Star Game was held in any Summer Olympic year. In 2010, an exhibition game (<a href="/wiki/Stars_at_the_Sun" title="Stars at the Sun">Stars at the Sun</a>) was held. Although the <a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Summer Olympics</a> were postponed to 2021 due to <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19</a>, no All-Star Game was played in that season. The 2021 season featured the first <a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2021 WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a> in an Olympic year since 2000; this contest featured a WNBA all-star team facing the <a href="/wiki/United_States_women%27s_national_basketball_team" title="United States women's national basketball team">US national team</a>. The <a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2024 WNBA All-Star Game">2024 game</a> used the same format as in 2021, and was also an official All-Star Game. Shortly after the All-Star break is the <a href="/wiki/Trading_deadline" class="mw-redirect" title="Trading deadline">trading deadline</a>. After this date, teams are not allowed to exchange players with each other for the remainder of the season, although they may still sign and release players. Major trades are often completed right before the trading deadline.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Playoffs">Playoffs</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Playoffs">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Playoffs" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA Playoffs">WNBA Playoffs</a></div> The WNBA Playoffs usually begin in late September, though in years of the <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">FIBA World Cup</a> they begin in August. In the current system, the eight best teams by the regular-season record, without regard to conference alignment, qualify for the playoffs. Since 2022, the playoffs have been held in a standard knockout format, with the first round consisting of best-of-three series and the semifinals and finals being best-of-five.<a href="#cite_note-2022format-61">[61]</a> Since 2021, <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> has been the official sponsor of all playoff rounds except for the finals,<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> which are sponsored by <a href="/wiki/YouTube_TV" title="YouTube TV">YouTube TV</a>.<a href="#cite_note-2025format-60">[60]</a> Having a higher seed offers several advantages. The higher seed will generally face a weaker team, and will have home-court advantage in each round. In 2024, all quarterfinal series used a 2–1 home-court pattern, which allowed the higher seed the opportunity to win the series without having to visit the lower seed. This in turn meant that a lower seed that won one of the first two games would host the series decider.<a href="#cite_note-2022format-61">[61]</a> However, the quarterfinals will return to a 1–1–1 pattern in 2025, with the higher seed hosting the first game and a potential third game.<a href="#cite_note-2025format-60">[60]</a> The quarterfinals are bracketed in the normal manner for an 8-team tournament, with 1 vs. 8 and 4 vs. 5 on one side of the bracket and 2 vs. 7 and 3 vs. 6 on the other. The winners of each quarterfinal series advance to the semifinals, with the bracket not being reseeded. The semifinals use a 2–2–1 home-court pattern, meaning that the higher-seeded team will have home court in games 1, 2, and 5 while the other team plays at home in game 3 and 4. Through 2024, the finals were also played in a 2–2–1 home-court pattern. Starting in 2025, the finals will use the same 2–2–1–1–1 pattern currently used by the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-2025format-60">[60]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finals">Finals</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Finals">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals" title="WNBA Finals">WNBA Finals</a></div> The final playoff round, a best-of-five series between the two semifinal winners, is known as the WNBA Finals and is held annually, currently scheduled in October. Each player on the winning team receives a championship ring. Also, the league awards a <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award">WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award</a>. From 2005 to 2024, the series follows a 2–2–1 pattern, meaning that the higher seed played at home in games 1, 2, and 5, while the lower seed played at home in games 3 and 4. The pattern will change to 2–2–1–1–1 when the Finals expand to best-of-seven in 2025. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214851843">.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center; background:#ffe6bd">The WNBA Finals</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">1990s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:4%;" rowspan="2">Season </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Champions </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Runners-up </th> <th style="width:5%;" rowspan="2">Format </th> <th style="width:3%;" rowspan="2">Results </th> <th style="width:8%;" rowspan="2">Finals MVP </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_Championship" title="1997 WNBA Championship">1997</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Van_Chancellor" title="Van Chancellor">Van Chancellor</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Darsch" title="Nancy Darsch">Nancy Darsch</a> </td> <td>Single game </td> <td>1–0 </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cynthia Cooper</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_WNBA_Championship" title="1998 WNBA Championship">1998</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Miller" title="Cheryl Miller">Cheryl Miller</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">Best-of-three </td> <td rowspan="2">2–1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_WNBA_Championship" title="1999 WNBA Championship">1999</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richie_Adubato" title="Richie Adubato">Richie Adubato</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">2000s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:4%;" rowspan="2">Season </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Champions </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Runners-up </th> <th style="width:5%;" rowspan="2">Format </th> <th style="width:3%;" rowspan="2">Results </th> <th style="width:8%;" rowspan="2">Finals MVP </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2000_WNBA_Championship" title="2000 WNBA Championship">2000</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Van_Chancellor" title="Van Chancellor">Van Chancellor</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richie_Adubato" title="Richie Adubato">Richie Adubato</a> </td> <td rowspan="5">Best-of-three </td> <td rowspan="3">2–0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cynthia Cooper</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_WNBA_Championship" title="2001 WNBA Championship">2001</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cooper" title="Michael Cooper">Michael Cooper</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">Charlotte Sting</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anne_Donovan" title="Anne Donovan">Anne Donovan</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2002_WNBA_Finals" title="2002 WNBA Finals">2002</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richie_Adubato" title="Richie Adubato">Richie Adubato</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_Finals" title="2003 WNBA Finals">2003</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2003_Detroit_Shock_season" title="2003 Detroit Shock season">Detroit Shock</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cooper" title="Michael Cooper">Michael Cooper</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">2–1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Riley" title="Ruth Riley">Ruth Riley</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2004_WNBA_Finals" title="2004 WNBA Finals">2004</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2004_Seattle_Storm_season" title="2004 Seattle Storm season">Seattle Storm</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anne_Donovan" title="Anne Donovan">Anne Donovan</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Thibault" title="Mike Thibault">Mike Thibault</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Betty_Lennox" title="Betty Lennox">Betty Lennox</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_WNBA_Finals" title="2005 WNBA Finals">2005</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_Sacramento_Monarchs_season" title="2005 Sacramento Monarchs season">Sacramento Monarchs</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Whisenant" title="John Whisenant">John Whisenant</a> </td> <td rowspan="5">Best-of-five </td> <td>3–1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yolanda_Griffith" title="Yolanda Griffith">Yolanda Griffith</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_WNBA_Finals" title="2006 WNBA Finals">2006</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_Detroit_Shock_season" title="2006 Detroit Shock season">Detroit Shock</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">Sacramento Monarchs</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Whisenant" title="John Whisenant">John Whisenant</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">3–2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Deanna_Nolan" title="Deanna Nolan">Deanna Nolan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_Finals" title="2007 WNBA Finals">2007</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2007_Phoenix_Mercury_season" title="2007 Phoenix Mercury season">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_Westhead" title="Paul Westhead">Paul Westhead</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cappie_Pondexter" title="Cappie Pondexter">Cappie Pondexter</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2008_WNBA_Finals" title="2008 WNBA Finals">2008</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2008_Detroit_Shock_season" title="2008 Detroit Shock season">Detroit Shock</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Silver_Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio Silver Stars">San Antonio Silver Stars</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dan_Hughes_(basketball_coach)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan Hughes (basketball coach)">Dan Hughes</a> </td> <td>3–0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Katie_Smith" title="Katie Smith">Katie Smith</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_WNBA_Finals" title="2009 WNBA Finals">2009</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_Phoenix_Mercury_season" title="2009 Phoenix Mercury season">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Corey_Gaines" title="Corey Gaines">Corey Gaines</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lin_Dunn" title="Lin Dunn">Lin Dunn</a> </td> <td>3–2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">2010s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:4%;" rowspan="2">Season </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Champions </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Runners-up </th> <th style="width:5%;" rowspan="2">Format </th> <th style="width:3%;" rowspan="2">Results </th> <th style="width:8%;" rowspan="2">Finals MVP </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_WNBA_Finals" title="2010 WNBA Finals">2010</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_Seattle_Storm_season" title="2010 Seattle Storm season">Seattle Storm</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Agler" title="Brian Agler">Brian Agler</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Marynell_Meadors" title="Marynell Meadors">Marynell Meadors</a> </td> <td rowspan="10">Best-of-five </td> <td rowspan="2">3–0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Jackson" title="Lauren Jackson">Lauren Jackson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_WNBA_Finals" title="2011 WNBA Finals">2011</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_Minnesota_Lynx_season" title="2011 Minnesota Lynx season">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Seimone Augustus</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_WNBA_Finals" title="2012 WNBA Finals">2012</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_Indiana_Fever_season" title="2012 Indiana Fever season">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lin_Dunn" title="Lin Dunn">Lin Dunn</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td>3–1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tamika_Catchings" title="Tamika Catchings">Tamika Catchings</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_WNBA_Finals" title="2013 WNBA Finals">2013</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_Minnesota_Lynx_season" title="2013 Minnesota Lynx season">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fred_Williams_(basketball,_born_1957)" title="Fred Williams (basketball, born 1957)">Fred Williams</a> </td> <td rowspan="2">3–0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_WNBA_Finals" title="2014 WNBA Finals">2014</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_Phoenix_Mercury_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Phoenix Mercury season">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Brondello" title="Sandy Brondello">Sandy Brondello</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pokey_Chatman" title="Pokey Chatman">Pokey Chatman</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_WNBA_Finals" title="2015 WNBA Finals">2015</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_Minnesota_Lynx_season" title="2015 Minnesota Lynx season">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stephanie_White" title="Stephanie White">Stephanie White</a> </td> <td rowspan="3">3–2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Fowles" title="Sylvia Fowles">Sylvia Fowles</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_WNBA_Finals" title="2016 WNBA Finals">2016</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Agler" title="Brian Agler">Brian Agler</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Candace_Parker" title="Candace Parker">Candace Parker</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_WNBA_Finals" title="2017 WNBA Finals">2017</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brian_Agler" title="Brian Agler">Brian Agler</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Fowles" title="Sylvia Fowles">Sylvia Fowles</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_WNBA_Finals" title="2018 WNBA Finals">2018</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_Seattle_Storm_season" title="2018 Seattle Storm season">Seattle Storm</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dan_Hughes_(basketball)" title="Dan Hughes (basketball)">Dan Hughes</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Thibault" title="Mike Thibault">Mike Thibault</a> </td> <td>3–0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Breanna Stewart</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2019_WNBA_Finals" title="2019 WNBA Finals">2019</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Thibault" title="Mike Thibault">Mike Thibault</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Curt_Miller" title="Curt Miller">Curt Miller</a> </td> <td>3–2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Emma_Meesseman" title="Emma Meesseman">Emma Meesseman</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">2020s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:4%;" rowspan="2">Season </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Champions </th> <th style="width:16%;" colspan="2">Runners-up </th> <th style="width:5%;" rowspan="2">Format </th> <th style="width:3%;" rowspan="2">Results </th> <th style="width:8%;" rowspan="2">Finals MVP </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th> <th style="width:8%;">Team </th> <th style="width:8%;">Coach </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_WNBA_Finals" title="2020 WNBA Finals">2020</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gary_Kloppenburg" title="Gary Kloppenburg">Gary Kloppenburg</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer" title="Bill Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a> </td> <td rowspan="5">Best-of-five </td> <td>3–0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Breanna Stewart</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_Finals" title="2021 WNBA Finals">2021</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Wade_(basketball)" title="James Wade (basketball)">James Wade</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Brondello" title="Sandy Brondello">Sandy Brondello</a> </td> <td rowspan="3">3–1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kahleah_Copper" title="Kahleah Copper">Kahleah Copper</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_WNBA_Finals" title="2022 WNBA Finals">2022</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Becky_Hammon" title="Becky Hammon">Becky Hammon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Curt_Miller" title="Curt Miller">Curt Miller</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chelsea_Gray" title="Chelsea Gray">Chelsea Gray</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_WNBA_Finals" title="2023 WNBA Finals">2023</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Brondello" title="Sandy Brondello">Sandy Brondello</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A%27ja_Wilson" title="A'ja Wilson">A'ja Wilson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_Finals" title="2024 WNBA Finals">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Brondello" title="Sandy Brondello">Sandy Brondello</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td>3–2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jonquel_Jones" title="Jonquel Jones">Jonquel Jones</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Championships">Championships</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Championships">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals#Results" title="WNBA Finals">WNBA Finals § Results</a>, and <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals#Finals_appearances" title="WNBA Finals">WNBA Finals § Finals appearances</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Players_and_coaches">Players and coaches</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Players and coaches">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association_players" title="List of Women's National Basketball Association players">List of Women's National Basketball Association players</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association_head_coaches" title="List of Women's National Basketball Association head coaches">List of Women's National Basketball Association head coaches</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_WNBA_players" class="mw-redirect" title="List of foreign WNBA players">List of foreign WNBA players</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MN_Lynx%27s_coach_Cheryl_Reeve_in_2024_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/MN_Lynx%27s_coach_Cheryl_Reeve_in_2024_%281%29.jpg/200px-MN_Lynx%27s_coach_Cheryl_Reeve_in_2024_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/MN_Lynx%27s_coach_Cheryl_Reeve_in_2024_%281%29.jpg/300px-MN_Lynx%27s_coach_Cheryl_Reeve_in_2024_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/MN_Lynx%27s_coach_Cheryl_Reeve_in_2024_%281%29.jpg/400px-MN_Lynx%27s_coach_Cheryl_Reeve_in_2024_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1948" data-file-height="1303" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> Head Coach and President of Basketball Operations of the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a>, known for her successful coaching career and leadership in the WNBA.</figcaption></figure> In 2011, a decade and a half after the launch of the WNBA, only two players remained from the league's <a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_season" title="1997 WNBA season">inaugural season in 1997</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tina_Thompson" title="Tina Thompson">Tina Thompson</a>. <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a> was the longest-tenured player from the 1997 draft class; she spent her entire career (1997–2009) with the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a> holds both of the league's most significant longevity records—number of seasons in the league (19) and games played (580). The members of the <a href="/wiki/WNBA%27s_All-Decade_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA's All-Decade Team">WNBA's All-Decade Team</a> were chosen in 2006 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the WNBA from 30 nominees compiled by fans, media, coach, and player voting. The team was to comprise the 10 best and most influential players of the first decade of the WNBA, with consideration also given to sportsmanship, community service, leadership, and contribution to the growth of women's basketball. <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Micheletimms2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Micheletimms2016.jpg/175px-Micheletimms2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="410" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Micheletimms2016.jpg/263px-Micheletimms2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Micheletimms2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="296" data-file-height="693" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Michele_Timms" title="Michele Timms">Michele Timms</a>, known for her skillful playmaking and leadership on the court.</figcaption></figure> Players for the <a href="/wiki/WNBA%27s_Top_15_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA's Top 15 Team">WNBA's Top 15 Team</a> were chosen in 2011 on the anniversary of the league's fifteenth season from amongst 30 nominees compiled similarly to that of the All-Decade Team process. This process was repeated for the league's 20th anniversary season in 2016 with the selection of the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Top_20@20" title="WNBA Top 20@20">WNBA Top 20@20</a>, and for the 25th anniversary season in 2021 with the selection of <a href="/wiki/The_W25" title="The W25">The W25</a>. Over <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Career_Scoring" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA Career Scoring">30 players</a> have scored at least 3,000 points in their WNBA careers. Only 14 WNBA players have reached the 6,000 point milestone: <a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Thompson" title="Tina Thompson">Tina Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamika_Catchings" title="Tamika Catchings">Tamika Catchings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Charles_(basketball)" title="Tina Charles (basketball)">Tina Charles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Candice_Dupree" title="Candice Dupree">Candice Dupree</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cappie_Pondexter" title="Cappie Pondexter">Cappie Pondexter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katie_Smith" title="Katie Smith">Katie Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Fowles" title="Sylvia Fowles">Sylvia Fowles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Candace_Parker" title="Candace Parker">Candace Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a>, <a href="/wiki/DeWanna_Bonner" title="DeWanna Bonner">DeWanna Bonner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Seimone Augustus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Jackson" title="Lauren Jackson">Lauren Jackson</a>. The scoring average leader is <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cynthia Cooper</a>, who averaged 21.0 points per game<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> in five seasons with the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> (1997–2000, 2003).<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> In 2007, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Westhead" title="Paul Westhead">Paul Westhead</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> became the first person to earn both <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> and WNBA championship rings as a coach. In 2008, 50-year-old <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Lieberman" title="Nancy Lieberman">Nancy Lieberman</a> became the oldest player to play in a WNBA game. She signed a seven-day contract with the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> and played one game, tallying <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080912150859/http://www.wnba.com/games/20080724/DETHOU/boxscore.html">two assists and two turnovers</a> in nine minutes of action. By playing in the one game Lieberman broke a record that she had set in 1997 when she was the league's oldest player at 39. The oldest player to have participated in a full season is <a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a>, who turned 42 early in the <a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_season" title="2024 WNBA season">2024 season</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a>, who played for the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> from 2002 until her retirement in 2022 (though she missed the 2013 and 2019 seasons to injury), holds the record for career assists<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> with 3,234 in 580 regular-season games.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The record for most assists per game is currently held by <a href="/wiki/Courtney_Vandersloot" title="Courtney Vandersloot">Courtney Vandersloot</a>, an American who also holds a Hungarian passport and represents <a href="/wiki/Hungary_women%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Hungary women's national basketball team">that country</a> internationally. She has averaged 6.64 assists per game during her career with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> (2011–2022) and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> (from 2023).<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> <a href="/wiki/Courtney_Vandersloot" title="Courtney Vandersloot">Vandersloot</a> also has six of the top seven seasons in assists per game, with 8.1 in 2017 and 2023, 8.6 in 2018 and 2021, 9.1 in 2019, and 10.0 in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Milestones">Milestones</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Milestones">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_records" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA records">WNBA records</a></div> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;"> <caption>WNBA Milestones </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Milestone </th> <th>Player </th> <th>Team </th> <th>Date </th> <th>Information </th></tr> <tr> <td>First player signed </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> </td> <td>October 23, 1996 </td> <td>Signed by the WNBA and assigned to <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>First points scored </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Penny_Toler" title="Penny Toler">Penny Toler</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td>June 21, 1997 </td> <td>Scored the first points on a baseline jump-shot. </td></tr> <tr> <td>First triple-double </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Sheryl Swoopes</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> </td> <td>July 27, 1998 </td> <td>14 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists </td></tr> <tr> <td>First slam dunk </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td>July 30, 2002 </td> <td>Dunked on a fast break against <a href="/wiki/Miami_Sol" title="Miami Sol">Miami</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>First <a href="/wiki/50%E2%80%9340%E2%80%9390_club" title="50–40–90 club">50–40–90 season</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elena_Delle_Donne" title="Elena Delle Donne">Elena Delle Donne</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> </td> <td>2019 </td> <td>51.5% FG, 43.0% 3FG, 97.4% FT<a href="#cite_note-EDD_50–40–90-69">[69]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most games played </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> </td> <td>2002–2012, 2014–2018, 2020–2022 </td> <td>580 games </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most career points </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td>2004–2014, 2016–present </td> <td>10,646 points </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most career rebounds </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tina_Charles_(basketball)" title="Tina Charles (basketball)">Tina Charles</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> / <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> / <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> / <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> / <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> </td> <td>2010–2019, 2021–2022, 2024–present </td> <td>4,014 rebounds </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most career assists </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> </td> <td>2002–2012, 2014–2018, 2020–2022 </td> <td>3,234 assists </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most career blocks </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Margo_Dydek" title="Margo Dydek">Margo Dydek</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">Utah Starzz</a>/<a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Silver_Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio Silver Stars">San Antonio Silver Stars</a>/<a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a>/<a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td>1998–2004, 2005–2007, 2008 </td> <td>877 blocks </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most career steals </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tamika_Catchings" title="Tamika Catchings">Tamika Catchings</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td>2002–2016 </td> <td>1,074 steals </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most 3-pointers </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td>2004–2014, 2016–present </td> <td>1,447 3-pointers </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">Most points in a game </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liz_Cambage" title="Liz Cambage">Liz Cambage</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_Dallas_Wings_season" title="2018 Dallas Wings season">Dallas Wings</a> </td> <td>July 17, 2018 </td> <td rowspan="2">53 points </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/A%27ja_Wilson" title="A'ja Wilson">A'ja Wilson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Las_Vegas_Aces_season" title="2023 Las Vegas Aces season">Las Vegas Aces</a> </td> <td>August 22, 2023 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most rebounds in a game </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chamique_Holdsclaw" title="Chamique Holdsclaw">Chamique Holdsclaw</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2003_Washington_Mystics_season" title="2003 Washington Mystics season">Washington Mystics</a> </td> <td>May 23, 2003 </td> <td>24 rebounds </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most assists in a game </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Clark" title="Caitlin Clark">Caitlin Clark</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Indiana_Fever_season" title="2024 Indiana Fever season">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td>July 17, 2024 </td> <td>19 assists </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most career wins for a coach </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Thibault" title="Mike Thibault">Mike Thibault</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> / <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> </td> <td>2003–2022 </td> <td>379 wins </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most team points in one game </td> <td>– </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td>July 24, 2010 </td> <td>127 points in double overtime against <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Most team points in a regulation game </td> <td>– </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td>July 22, 2010 </td> <td>123 points against <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">Tulsa</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Largest margin of victory </td> <td>– </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td>August 18, 2017 </td> <td>59-point win (111–52) over <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Largest attendance for any game </td> <td>– </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> </td> <td>September 16, 2007 </td> <td>22,076 in game 5 of <a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_Finals" title="2007 WNBA Finals">2007 Finals</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Largest attendance for a regular-season game </td> <td>– </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Washington_Mystics_season" title="2024 Washington Mystics season">Washington Mystics</a> </td> <td>September 19, 2024 </td> <td>20,711 vs. <a href="/wiki/2024_Indiana_Fever_season" title="2024 Indiana Fever season">Indiana Fever</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Awards">edit</a>]</div> Around the beginning of September (or late August in Olympic and <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">FIBA World Cup</a> years), the regular season ends. It is during this time that voting begins for individual awards. The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Sixth_Player_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Sixth Player of the Year Award">Sixth Player of the Year Award</a> (known before 2021 as the "Sixth Woman" award) is given to the best player coming off the bench (must have more games coming off the bench than actual games started).<a href="#cite_note-WNBA6th-71">[71]</a> The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Rookie of the Year Award">Rookie of the Year Award</a> is awarded to the most outstanding first-year player. The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Most_Improved_Player_Award" title="WNBA Most Improved Player Award">Most Improved Player Award</a> is awarded to the player who is deemed to have shown the most improvement from the previous season. The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award">Defensive Player of the Year Award</a> is awarded to the league's best defender. The <a href="/wiki/Kim_Perrot_Sportsmanship_Award" title="Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award">Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award</a> is awarded to the player who shows outstanding sportsmanship on and off the court. The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Coach_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Coach of the Year Award">Coach of the Year Award</a> is awarded to the coach that has made the most positive difference to a team. The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="WNBA Most Valuable Player Award">Most Valuable Player Award</a> is given to the player deemed the most valuable for her team that season. The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Basketball_Executive_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Basketball Executive of the Year Award">Basketball Executive of the Year Award</a> is presented to the team executive most instrumental in his or her team's success in that season. The newest WNBA award, first presented in 2019, is the season-long version of the WNBA Community Assist Award, presented to a player for especially meritorious community service.<a href="#cite_note-73">[a]</a> Also named are the <a href="/wiki/All-WNBA_Team" title="All-WNBA Team">All-WNBA Teams</a>, the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Defensive_Team" title="WNBA All-Defensive Team">All-Defensive Teams</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Rookie_Team" title="WNBA All-Rookie Team">All-Rookie Team</a>; each consists of five players. There are two All-WNBA teams; starting with the 2022 season, each consists of five top players selected without regard to position, with first-team status being the most desirable.<a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a> There are two All-Defensive teams; since the 2023 season, each consists of the top defenders regardless of position. Finally, there is one All-Rookie team, consisting of the top five first-year players regardless of position. (In all cases, a tie in voting may lead to a team containing six players instead of five.) <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Most_recent_award_winners">Most recent award winners</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Most recent award winners">edit</a>]</div> All listed winners are from the 2024 season unless noted otherwise. <table class="wikitable" style="width: 85%; margin:1em auto;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="width:155px;">Award </th> <th width="125">Winner </th> <th width="100">Position </th> <th width="135">Team </th> <th width="115">Votes/Statistic<a href="#cite_note-75">[b]</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="WNBA Most Valuable Player Award">Most Valuable Player Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A%27ja_Wilson" title="A'ja Wilson">A'ja Wilson</a> </td> <td>Forward </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Las_Vegas_Aces_season" title="2024 Las Vegas Aces season">Las Vegas Aces</a> </td> <td>67 out of 67<a href="#cite_note-76">[74]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals_MVP_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA Finals MVP Award">Finals MVP Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jonquel_Jones" title="Jonquel Jones">Jonquel Jones</a> </td> <td>Forward </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_New_York_Liberty_season" title="2024 New York Liberty season">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td>N/A<a href="#cite_note-NoResult-77">[c]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Rookie of the Year Award">Rookie of the Year Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Clark" title="Caitlin Clark">Caitlin Clark</a> </td> <td>Point guard </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Indiana_Fever_season" title="2024 Indiana Fever season">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td>66 out of 67 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Most_Improved_Player_Award" title="WNBA Most Improved Player Award">Most Improved Player Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/DiJonai_Carrington" title="DiJonai Carrington">DiJonai Carrington</a> </td> <td>Guard-forward </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Connecticut_Sun_season" title="2024 Connecticut Sun season">Connecticut Sun</a> </td> <td>28 out of 67 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award">Defensive Player of the Year Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Napheesa_Collier" title="Napheesa Collier">Napheesa Collier</a> </td> <td>Forward </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Minnesota_Lynx_season" title="2024 Minnesota Lynx season">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td>36 out of 67 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Sixth_Player_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Sixth Player of the Year Award">Sixth Player of the Year Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tiffany_Hayes" title="Tiffany Hayes">Tiffany Hayes</a> </td> <td>Guard </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Las_Vegas_Aces_season" title="2024 Las Vegas Aces season">Las Vegas Aces</a> </td> <td>38 out of 67 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Kim_Perrot_Sportsmanship_Award" title="Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award">Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dearica_Hamby" title="Dearica Hamby">Dearica Hamby</a> </td> <td>Forward </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Los_Angeles_Sparks_season" title="2024 Los Angeles Sparks season">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td>12 out of 67 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Peak_Performers" title="WNBA Peak Performers">Peak Performer: Points</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A%27ja_Wilson" title="A'ja Wilson">A'ja Wilson</a> </td> <td>Forward </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Las_Vegas_Aces_season" title="2024 Las Vegas Aces season">Las Vegas Aces</a> </td> <td>26.9 PPG </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Peak_Performers" title="WNBA Peak Performers">Peak Performer: Rebounds</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Angel_Reese" title="Angel Reese">Angel Reese</a> </td> <td>Forward </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Chicago_Sky_season" title="2024 Chicago Sky season">Chicago Sky</a> </td> <td>13.1 RPG </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Peak_Performers" title="WNBA Peak Performers">Peak Performer: Assists</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Clark" title="Caitlin Clark">Caitlin Clark</a> </td> <td>Guard </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Indiana_Fever_season" title="2024 Indiana Fever season">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td>8.4 APG </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Coach_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Coach of the Year Award">Coach of the Year Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td>Coach </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Minnesota_Lynx_season" title="2024 Minnesota Lynx season">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td>62 out of 67 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Basketball_Executive_of_the_Year_Award" title="WNBA Basketball Executive of the Year Award">Basketball Executive of the Year Award</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Reeve" title="Cheryl Reeve">Cheryl Reeve</a> </td> <td>President of Basketball Operations </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Minnesota_Lynx_season" title="2024 Minnesota Lynx season">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td>10 out of 36 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">Community Assist Award </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brittney_Griner" title="Brittney Griner">Brittney Griner</a> (2023) </td> <td>Center </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Phoenix_Mercury_season" title="2023 Phoenix Mercury season">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td>N/A<a href="#cite_note-NoResult-77">[c]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>Notes</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-73"><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a> The Community Assist Award has been presented on a monthly basis during the season since 2008, but a season-long version was not presented until 2019.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a> "Votes" are listed as first-place votes except as noted, although the winners for all WNBA awards apart from the statistically based Peak Performer Awards are determined by points earned rather than first-place votes. </li> <li id="cite_note-NoResult-77">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NoResult_77-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NoResult_77-1">b</a> The WNBA did not announce detailed voting results. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retired_numbers">Retired numbers</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Retired numbers">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Becky_Hammon_London_2012_Olympics_Womens_Basketball_(Australia_v_Russia).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Becky_Hammon_London_2012_Olympics_Womens_Basketball_%28Australia_v_Russia%29.jpg/220px-Becky_Hammon_London_2012_Olympics_Womens_Basketball_%28Australia_v_Russia%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Becky_Hammon_London_2012_Olympics_Womens_Basketball_%28Australia_v_Russia%29.jpg/330px-Becky_Hammon_London_2012_Olympics_Womens_Basketball_%28Australia_v_Russia%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Becky_Hammon_London_2012_Olympics_Womens_Basketball_%28Australia_v_Russia%29.jpg/440px-Becky_Hammon_London_2012_Olympics_Womens_Basketball_%28Australia_v_Russia%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="5184" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Becky_Hammon" title="Becky Hammon">Becky Hammon</a> known for her exceptional basketball IQ and contributions to the game.</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th width="40px">No. </th> <th width="150px">Team </th> <th width="150px">Player </th> <th width="40px">Pos. </th> <th width="115px">Tenure<a href="#cite_note-78">[note 1]</a> </th> <th width="40px">Ref. </th></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">C</a></td> <td>1997–2009</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-79">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[76]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Penny_Toler" title="Penny Toler">Penny Toler</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guard_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (basketball)">G</a></td> <td>1997–1999</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-81">[77]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>24</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tamika_Catchings" title="Tamika Catchings">Tamika Catchings</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Small_forward" title="Small forward">SF</a></td> <td>2002–2016</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-82">[78]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>25</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Becky_Hammon" title="Becky Hammon">Becky Hammon</a> <a href="#cite_note-becky-83">[note 2]</a></td> <td>G</td> <td>2007–2014</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-84">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[80]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Whalen" title="Lindsay Whalen">Lindsay Whalen</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guard_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (basketball)">G</a></td> <td>2010–2018</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-86">[81]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>23</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Forward_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Forward (basketball)">F</a></td> <td>2011–2018</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-87">[82]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>32</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rebekkah_Brunson" title="Rebekkah Brunson">Rebekkah Brunson</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Forward_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Forward (basketball)">F</a></td> <td>2010-2018</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-88">[83]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>33</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Seimone Augustus</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guard_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (basketball)">G</a></td> <td>2006-2019</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-89">[84]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>34 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Fowles" title="Sylvia Fowles">Sylvia Fowles</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">C</a> </td> <td>2015-2022 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-90">[85]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michele_Timms" title="Michele Timms">Michele Timms</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guard_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (basketball)">G</a></td> <td>1997–2001</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-91">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[87]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Penny_Taylor" title="Penny Taylor">Penny Taylor</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Swingman" title="Swingman">G/F</a></td> <td>2004–2016</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-93">[88]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Gillom" title="Jennifer Gillom">Jennifer Gillom</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Forward_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Forward (basketball)">F</a></td> <td>1997–2002</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>32</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bridget_Pettis" title="Bridget Pettis">Bridget Pettis</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guard_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (basketball)">G</a></td> <td>1997–2006</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>15</td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Jackson" title="Lauren Jackson">Lauren Jackson</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Forward-center" title="Forward-center">F/C</a></td> <td>2001–2012</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-94">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[90]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Guard_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guard (basketball)">G</a></td> <td>2001–2022<a href="#cite_note-96">[note 3]</a></td> <td><a href="#cite_note-97">[91]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>Notes</dt></dl> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-78"><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a> Reflects tenure with the team that retired the player's number; not necessarily identical to the player's WNBA tenure. </li> <li id="cite_note-becky-83"><a href="#cite_ref-becky_83-0">^</a> Number retired by the franchise when it was playing as the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio Stars</a>. Hammon played the last eight seasons of her WNBA career in San Antonio. The Aces, which honored the number's retirement by the Stars, held a second number retirement ceremony for Hammon on September 13, 2021. </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a> Bird missed the 2013 and 2019 seasons to injuries. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_international_players">Notable international players</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Notable international players">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_WNBA_players" class="mw-redirect" title="List of foreign WNBA players">List of foreign WNBA players</a></div> A number of international players that have played in the WNBA have earned multiple all-stars or won MVP awards: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Elena_Baranova" title="Elena Baranova">Elena Baranova</a>, Russia – among the first international players in the WNBA (<a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_season" title="1997 WNBA season">1997</a>), one-time <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star</a> (<a href="/wiki/2001_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2001 WNBA All-Star Game">2001</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/China" title="China"><img alt="China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Zheng_Haixia" title="Zheng Haixia">Zheng Haixia</a>, China – first winner of the <a href="/wiki/Kim_Perrot_Sportsmanship_Award" title="Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award">Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award</a> and first international player to win a WNBA award (<a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_season" title="1997 WNBA season">1997</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Margo_Dydek" title="Margo Dydek">Margo Dydek</a>, Poland – first international player to be #1 draft pick (<a href="/wiki/1998_WNBA_draft" title="1998 WNBA draft">1998</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Jackson" title="Lauren Jackson">Lauren Jackson</a>, Australia – two-time champion (<a href="/wiki/2004_WNBA_Finals" title="2004 WNBA Finals">2004</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_WNBA_Finals" title="2010 WNBA Finals">2010</a>), three-time <a href="/wiki/WNBA_MVP" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA MVP">MVP</a> and eight-time <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal"><img alt="Portugal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Ticha_Penicheiro" title="Ticha Penicheiro">Ticha Penicheiro</a>, Portugal – won a championship with the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">Monarchs</a> in <a href="/wiki/2005_WNBA_Finals" title="2005 WNBA Finals">2005</a> and four-time <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia"><img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Penny_Taylor" title="Penny Taylor">Penny Taylor</a>, Australia – three-time champion (<a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_Finals" title="2007 WNBA Finals">2007</a>, <a href="/wiki/2009_WNBA_Finals" title="2009 WNBA Finals">2009</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_WNBA_Finals" title="2014 WNBA Finals">2014</a>) and four-time <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada"><img alt="Canada" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Canada_%28Pantone%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Sutton-Brown" title="Tammy Sutton-Brown">Tammy Sutton-Brown</a>, Canada – two-time <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines"><img alt="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Flag_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Flag_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Flag_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Sophia_Young" title="Sophia Young">Sophia Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a> – four-time All-Star</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil"><img alt="Brazil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/33px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/43px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Janeth_Arcain" title="Janeth Arcain">Janeth Arcain</a>, Brazil – four-time champion (1997–2000), one-time <a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">All-Star</a> (<a href="/wiki/2001_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2001 WNBA All-Star Game">2001</a>) and <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Most_Improved_Player_Award" title="WNBA Most Improved Player Award">Most Improved Player Award</a> (<a href="/wiki/2001_WNBA_season" title="2001 WNBA season">2001</a>)</li></ul> Some of these players, among them Penicheiro, Sutton-Brown, and Young played U.S. college basketball. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rules_and_regulations">Rules and regulations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Rules and regulations">edit</a>]</div> Rules are governed by standard <a href="/wiki/Basketball#Rules_and_regulations" title="Basketball">basketball rules</a> as defined by the NBA, with a few notable exceptions: <ul><li>The three-point line is 22 ft 1.75 in (6.75 m) from the center of the basket, with a distance of 22 ft (6.71 m) at the corners. The main arc is essentially identical to that used by <a href="/wiki/FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a> (effective October 1, 2012 for domestic competitions) and <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletics_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="National Collegiate Athletics Association">NCAA</a> play (effective in 2019–20 in Division I and 2020–21 in Divisions II and III for men, and in 2021–22 for all women's play). The WNBA corner distance, as measured from the center of the basket, is identical to that of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>; the <a href="/wiki/FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">NCAA</a> distance at the corners is 4 in (10.16 cm) shorter.</li> <li>The regulation WNBA ball is a minimum 28.5 inches (72 cm) in circumference and weighs 20.0 ounces (570 g), 1 inch (2.5 cm) smaller and 2 ounces (57 g) lighter than the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> ball. Since 2004, this size has been used for all senior-level women's competitions throughout the world in full-court basketball. Competitions in the half-court <a href="/wiki/3x3_basketball" title="3x3 basketball">3x3</a> variant used the women's ball until 2015, when a dedicated ball with the circumference of the women's ball but the weight of the men's ball was introduced. <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Sporting_Goods" title="Wilson Sporting Goods">Wilson</a> became the WNBA ball supplier in 2021. Prior to that year, <a href="/wiki/Spalding_(company)" title="Spalding (company)">Spalding</a> had been the ball supplier since 1997.</li> <li>Quarters are 10 minutes in duration instead of 12.</li></ul> Games are divided into four 10-minute quarters as opposed to the league's original two 20-minute halves of play, similar to <a href="/wiki/FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">NCAA</a> women's college rules. A recent trend with new WNBA rules has been to match them with a similar NBA rule. Since the <a href="/wiki/2006_WNBA_season" title="2006 WNBA season">2006 WNBA season</a>:<a href="#cite_note-WNBA_Announces_Rule_Changes_for_2006-98">[92]</a> <ul><li>The winner of the opening jump ball shall begin the 4th quarter with the ball out of bounds. The loser shall begin with the ball out of bounds in the second and third quarters. Previously under the two-half format, both periods started with jump balls, presumably to eliminate the possibility of a team intentionally losing the opening tip to gain the opening possession of the second half. This is not a problem under the four-quarters because the winner of the opening tip gets the opening possession of the final period.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Shot_clock" title="Shot clock">shot clock</a> was decreased from 30 to 24 seconds, matching the FIBA shot clock. Starting in 2020, the last five seconds of the shot clock counted down in tenths of a second.</li></ul> The <a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_season" title="2007 WNBA season">2007 WNBA season</a> brought changes that included:<a href="#cite_note-WNBA_Announces_Rule_Changes_for_2007_Season-99">[93]</a> <ul><li>The amount of time that a team must move the ball across the half-court line went from 10 to 8 seconds.</li> <li>A referee can grant time-outs to either a player or the coach.</li> <li>Two free throws and possession of the ball for a clear-path-to-the-basket foul. Previously only one free throw was awarded as well as possession.</li></ul> In <a href="/wiki/2012_WNBA_season" title="2012 WNBA season">2012</a>, the WNBA added the block/charge arc under the basket. As of <a href="/wiki/2013_WNBA_season" title="2013 WNBA season">2013</a> the defensive three-second rule and anti-flopping guidelines were introduced. The three-point line was also extended; in 2017, that line extended into the corners to match the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>'s. Since <a href="/wiki/2017_WNBA_season" title="2017 WNBA season">2017</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tissot" title="Tissot">Tissot</a> is the official timekeeper for the league, as it uses a unified game clock/shot clock system. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Court_dimensions">Court dimensions</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Court dimensions">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 60%; margin:1em auto;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3">WNBA Court Dimensions </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th>Area </th> <th>Imperial </th> <th>Metric </th></tr> <tr> <td>Length of court (baseline to baseline)</td> <td>94 ft</td> <td>28.65 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Width of court (sideline to sideline)</td> <td>50 ft</td> <td>15.24 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Rim height (floor to rim)</td> <td>10 ft</td> <td>3.05 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Center circle diameter</td> <td>12 ft</td> <td>3.66 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Three-point line distance from center of basket</td> <td>22 ft 1.75 in</td> <td>6.75 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>3-point line distance from center of basket (corners)</td> <td>22 ft</td> <td>6.71 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Shaded area/Lane/Key length</td> <td>19 ft</td> <td>5.8 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Shaded area/Lane/Key width</td> <td>16 ft</td> <td>4.88 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Restricted area (aka "block/charge arc") (distance from center of basket)</td> <td>4 ft</td> <td>1.22 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Free-throw line (distance from backboard)</td> <td>15 ft</td> <td>4.57 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Free-throw half-circle radius</td> <td>6 ft</td> <td>1.83 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Backboard width (side to side)</td> <td>6 ft</td> <td>1.83 m </td></tr> <tr> <td>Coaching box width (from baseline)</td> <td>28 ft</td> <td>8.54 m </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">*All dimensions are in line with <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> regulations except the main three-point arc. The three-point distance at the corners is identical in the NBA and WNBA. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Business">Business</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Business">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Finance">Finance</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Finance">edit</a>]</div> During the mid-2000s, the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> spent more than $10 million per year to keep the WNBA financially solvent.<a href="#cite_note-100">[94]</a> In 2007, teams were estimated to be losing $1.5 million to $2 million a year.<a href="#cite_note-101">[95]</a> In total, the league projected losses through the 2010 season to be around $400 million.<a href="#cite_note-102">[96]</a> In December 2010, <a href="/wiki/Donna_Orender" title="Donna Orender">Donna Orender</a> said that the league had its first-ever "cash flow positive" team during the 2010 season.<a href="#cite_note-103">[97]</a> In 2011, three teams were profitable, and in 2013, six of the league's 12 teams reported a profit.<a href="#cite_note-104">[98]</a> By the 2024 season, the WNBA has seen their revenue grow rapidly through a variety of avenues, such as through raising capital,<a href="#cite_note-105">[99]</a> re-negotiating their media rights deal,<a href="#cite_note-:7-106">[100]</a> expansion fees,<a href="#cite_note-:7-106">[100]</a> increased ticket sales,<a href="#cite_note-:6-107">[101]</a> and establishing new strategic partnerships and sponsorships with organizations.<a href="#cite_note-:8-108">[102]</a> Still, 40% of the revenue generated by the WNBA goes to the teams and the players, with the remainder going to the NBA and outside investors.<a href="#cite_note-:7-106">[100]</a> Overall, the league is expected to lose $50 million for the 2024 season.<a href="#cite_note-:7-106">[100]</a> Unlike the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>, whose financials are more transparent, data on the financial situation of the WNBA is rarely shared with the media. What is shared most often comes via comments made to reporters by someone associated with the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> or the WNBA. Nola Agha, professor of sports management at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco" title="University of San Francisco">University of San Francisco</a>, claims that it is commonplace for leagues to declare losses via tax loopholes or accounting practices "even if they're cash-flow positive and even if the asset value of the business is increasing every year." She asserts that a league may be motivated to downplay their profitability so they can have access to public subsidies to fund stadiums or to use as leverage in contract negotiations with players.<a href="#cite_note-sherwood.news-109">[103]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Activism">Activism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Activism">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Social_Justice_Council" title="WNBA Social Justice Council">WNBA Social Justice Council</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_York_Liberty_WNBA_Team_staff_wearing_Black_Lives_Matter_T-Shirts_during_a_game_on_June_19,2022.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/New_York_Liberty_WNBA_Team_staff_wearing_Black_Lives_Matter_T-Shirts_during_a_game_on_June_19%2C2022.png/220px-New_York_Liberty_WNBA_Team_staff_wearing_Black_Lives_Matter_T-Shirts_during_a_game_on_June_19%2C2022.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/New_York_Liberty_WNBA_Team_staff_wearing_Black_Lives_Matter_T-Shirts_during_a_game_on_June_19%2C2022.png/330px-New_York_Liberty_WNBA_Team_staff_wearing_Black_Lives_Matter_T-Shirts_during_a_game_on_June_19%2C2022.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/New_York_Liberty_WNBA_Team_staff_wearing_Black_Lives_Matter_T-Shirts_during_a_game_on_June_19%2C2022.png/440px-New_York_Liberty_WNBA_Team_staff_wearing_Black_Lives_Matter_T-Shirts_during_a_game_on_June_19%2C2022.png 2x" data-file-width="1112" data-file-height="1484" /></a><figcaption>New York Liberty WNBA Team staff wearing Black Lives Matter T-Shirts during a game on June 19, 2022</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> in 2020 called the WNBA "the most socially progressive pro league".<a href="#cite_note-110">[104]</a> As the popularity of the league has grown, players have gained more voice and power to perform as activists in many fields. One of the activist players' main focuses is the inequality between men's and women's sports. Many players such as <a href="/wiki/Brittney_Griner" title="Brittney Griner">Brittney Griner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Breanna Stewart</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a> have spoken about equality between gender, sexual orientation, and race.<a href="#cite_note-111">[105]</a> The players have also supported progressive social and political movements such as <a href="/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a> and others.<a href="#cite_note-112">[106]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> were early advocates. <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> called <a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Seimone Augustus</a> "one of sports' most forward-thinking and undersung activists" for her early work advocating for <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">marriage equality</a> and <a href="/wiki/LGBTQ" title="LGBTQ">LGBTQ+</a> rights.<a href="#cite_note-113">[107]</a> Before the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Lynx</a> July 9, 2016, home game, the team held a press conference where the four co-captains wore black t-shirts with the message ""Change starts with us - Justice and Accountability" on the front and the names of <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile" title="Killing of Philando Castile">Philando Castile</a> and <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Alton_Sterling" title="Killing of Alton Sterling">Alton Sterling</a> on the back. <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile" title="Killing of Philando Castile">Castile</a> had been murdered by police in a traffic stop three days before the game.<a href="#cite_note-114">[108]</a> Shortly after the <a href="/wiki/George_Floyd_protests" title="George Floyd protests">George Floyd protests</a> began, the league and union decided in 2020 to put <a href="/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Say_Her_Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Say Her Name">Say Her Name</a> slogans on warmup gear and opening weekend uniforms.<a href="#cite_note-npr_dream-115">[109]</a> When team owner Senator <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler" title="Kelly Loeffler">Kelly Loeffler</a> criticized the league's support for <a href="/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a>, her team wore black T-shirts with the slogan "VOTE WARNOCK", endorsing her election opponent <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Warnock" title="Raphael Warnock">Raphael Warnock</a>, an African-American pastor who defeated <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler" title="Kelly Loeffler">Loeffler</a>.<a href="#cite_note-npr_dream-115">[109]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WNBA_Activism_VOTE.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/WNBA_Activism_VOTE.jpg/220px-WNBA_Activism_VOTE.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/WNBA_Activism_VOTE.jpg/330px-WNBA_Activism_VOTE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/WNBA_Activism_VOTE.jpg/440px-WNBA_Activism_VOTE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Players from the Las Vegas Aces in September, 2024, wearing T-shirts that read VOTE.</figcaption></figure> In 2021, during the <a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_sports" title="Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, the WNBA-led American professional sports teams in promoting the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine" title="COVID-19 vaccine">COVID-19 vaccine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:1-116">[110]</a> Teams hosted vaccine clinics in their home arenas.<a href="#cite_note-:1-116">[110]</a> In April the league and union's Social Justice Council made a <a href="/wiki/Public_service_announcement" title="Public service announcement">PSA</a>, Our Health is Worth a Shot, that aired during the WNBA draft.<a href="#cite_note-:1-116">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[111]</a> In June 2021, the WNBA announced that 99% of its players had been fully vaccinated.<a href="#cite_note-118">[112]</a> In June 2024, the documentary film Power of the Dream will be released.<a href="#cite_note-:4-119">[113]</a> The film focuses on the league's work to support <a href="/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a> and the organizing to support the election of <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Warnock" title="Raphael Warnock">Raphael Warnock</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nneka_Ogwumike" title="Nneka Ogwumike">Nneka Ogwumike</a> are co-producers of the film along with <a href="/wiki/Tracee_Ellis_Ross" title="Tracee Ellis Ross">Tracee Ellis Ross</a> and the director <a href="/wiki/Dawn_Porter_(filmmaker)" title="Dawn Porter (filmmaker)">Dawn Porter</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-119">[113]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sponsorships">Sponsorships</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Sponsorships">edit</a>]</div> On June 1, 2009, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> was the first team in WNBA history to announce a marquee sponsorship.<a href="#cite_note-120">[114]</a> The team secured a partnership with <a href="/wiki/LifeLock" title="LifeLock">LifeLock</a> to brand their jerseys and warm-ups.<a href="#cite_note-121">[115]</a> It was the first branded jersey in WNBA history. Following the expiration of the LifeLock deal, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a> secured a new uniform sponsorship deal with <a href="/wiki/Casino_Arizona" title="Casino Arizona">Casino Arizona</a> and <a href="/wiki/Talking_Stick_Resort" title="Talking Stick Resort">Talking Stick Resort</a> on February 3, 2014.<a href="#cite_note-122">[116]</a> Other teams eventually followed in the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a>'s footsteps; some teams feature sponsors prominently on the front of their jerseys, while others have sponsors on the upper left-hand shoulder.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] On August 22, 2011, the WNBA announced a league-wide marquee sponsorship with <a href="/wiki/Boost_Mobile" title="Boost Mobile">Boost Mobile</a>.<a href="#cite_note-123">[117]</a> The deal would allow the <a href="/wiki/Boost_Mobile" title="Boost Mobile">Boost Mobile</a> logo to be placed on eleven of the 12 teams' jerseys (excluding San Antonio) in addition to branding on the courts and in arenas. A source said the deal is a "multiyear, eight-figure deal".<a href="#cite_note-124">[118]</a> Before the start of the 2011 season, every team announced a new look for their uniforms. The supplier of the uniforms for the league, <a href="/wiki/Adidas" title="Adidas">Adidas</a>, upgraded all teams to new high-tech designs, much like they did for the NBA before the start of their season. On April 8, 2019, the WNBA announced a multiyear marquee partnership with <a href="/wiki/AT%26T" title="AT&T">AT&T</a>, making them the first non-apparel partner to have its logo featured on the front of all 12 team jerseys. The jerseys officially debuted during the <a href="/wiki/2019_WNBA_draft" title="2019 WNBA draft">2019 WNBA draft</a>.<a href="#cite_note-125">[119]</a> In 2020, the league launched WNBA Changemakers, a collective of businesses committed to the advancement of women in sports. The business partners that make up the collective provide direct financial investment to the WNBA as well as marketing amplification through collaborations.<a href="#cite_note-:8-108">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Salaries,_rosters,_and_collective_bargaining">Salaries, rosters, and collective bargaining</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Salaries, rosters, and collective bargaining">edit</a>]</div> Before the 2009 season, the maximum team roster size was changed from 13 players (11 active and 2 inactive) to 11 players (all active). Any team that falls below nine players able to play due to injury or any other factor outside of the control of the team will, upon request, be granted a roster hardship exception allowing the team to sign an additional player or players so that the team will have nine players able to play in an upcoming game or games. As soon as the injured (or otherwise sidelined) player(s) can play, the roster hardship player(s)—not any other player on the roster—must be waived. In March 2014, the WNBA and players signed a new, eight-year collective bargaining agreement, increasing the number of players on a roster to 12.<a href="#cite_note-126">[120]</a> The <a href="/wiki/WNBA_draft" title="WNBA draft">WNBA draft</a> is held annually every spring. The minimum age is 22 years for American players and 20 years for international players, measured as of December 31 of the calendar year of the draft. For draft purposes, "American" includes those born in the U.S., as well as those who have enrolled in a U.S. college or university, regardless of their citizenship. The draft is three rounds long, with each of the 12 teams in the league (trades aside) getting three picks each. The draft order for the eight teams that made the playoffs the previous year are based on team records, and the team with the highest previous record will pick last. For the remaining top four picks, a selection process similar to the <a href="/wiki/NBA_draft_lottery" title="NBA draft lottery">NBA draft lottery</a> is conducted for the four teams that did not qualify for the playoffs. Previously, in 2008, a new six-year collective bargaining agreement was agreed upon between the players and the league. The <a href="/wiki/Salary_cap" title="Salary cap">salary cap</a> for an entire team in 2010 was $827,000 (although it was later lowered to $775,000). By 2013 (the sixth year under this agreement), the cap for an entire team was $900,000. In 2010, the minimum salary for a player with three-plus years of experience was $51,000 while the maximum salary for a six-plus year player was $101,500 (the first time in league history that players can receive over $100,000). The minimum salary for rookies was $35,190.<a href="#cite_note-127">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-128">[122]</a> Many WNBA players supplement their salaries by playing in <a href="/wiki/European_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="European Women's Basketball League">European</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_League" title="Women's National Basketball League">Australian</a>, or more recently <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Women's Chinese Basketball Association">Chinese</a> women's basketball leagues during the WNBA offseason. The WNBA <a href="/wiki/Gender_pay_gap" title="Gender pay gap">pays its female players less</a> than their NBA counterparts, although this is attributed to the much greater revenues of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>; however the WNBA has been criticized for "paying its players a lower share of revenue than the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>".<a href="#cite_note-129">[123]</a> The decision of superstar <a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a> to sit out the 2015 WNBA season was seen by some in the media as a harbinger of salary-related troubles in the future. The Russian club for which she was playing at the time, <a href="/wiki/UMMC_Ekaterinburg" title="UMMC Ekaterinburg">UMMC Ekaterinburg</a>, offered her a bonus well over the league's maximum player salary to sit out that season. Taurasi accepted, largely because she had not had an offseason since playing college basketball more than a decade earlier. Such offers have often been made to star American players, including <a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Taurasi</a> herself, but none were accepted until <a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Taurasi</a> did so in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-130">[124]</a> A more recent incident that led to widespread media comment on the WNBA's salary structure was the <a href="/wiki/Achilles_tendon_rupture" title="Achilles tendon rupture">torn</a> <a href="/wiki/Achilles_tendon" title="Achilles tendon">Achilles</a> suffered by reigning WNBA MVP <a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Breanna Stewart</a> while playing for another Russian side, <a href="/wiki/Dynamo_Kursk" title="Dynamo Kursk">Dynamo Kursk</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_EuroLeague_Women" title="2018–19 EuroLeague Women">2019 EuroLeague Women final</a>. The injury came at a time when the WNBA and its players' union were preparing to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement,<a href="#cite_note-131">[125]</a> following the union's announcement in November 2018 that it would opt out of the current CBA after the 2019 season. With overseas leagues offering much higher salaries to many players than the WNBA currently provides, roughly 70% of the league's players go overseas in any given season. While these players do not necessarily play as many games as <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> players do in their seasons, even participants in the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> get several months of rest in the offseason, something not available for WNBA players who also play overseas.<a href="#cite_note-132">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[127]</a><a href="#cite_note-Voepel_Stewie-134">[128]</a> In a story on the ramifications of <a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Stewart</a>'s injury, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Voepel" title="Michael Voepel">Michael Voepel</a> of <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> had this to say about the lead-in to the injury:<a href="#cite_note-Voepel_Stewie-134">[128]</a><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">For Stewart, her 2018 went like this: playing in <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Women's Chinese Basketball Association">China</a>, brief time off, <a href="/wiki/2018_WNBA_season" title="2018 WNBA season">WNBA season</a>, <a href="/wiki/2018_FIBA_Women%27s_Basketball_World_Cup" title="2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">World Cup</a> in the Canary Islands, brief time off, playing in Russia. She hasn't had significant recovery time since before her <a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_UConn_Huskies_women%27s_basketball_team" title="2015–16 UConn Huskies women's basketball team">senior season</a> at <a href="/wiki/UConn_Huskies_women%27s_basketball" title="UConn Huskies women's basketball">UConn</a>. Now, she'll have time away from playing but while going through rehab and physical therapy.</blockquote> The current CBA, which took effect in 2020, significantly increased minimum and maximum salaries. The minimum league salary in 2020 was $57,000 for players with less than three years of experience, and $68,000 otherwise. For most players, the 2020 maximum salary was $185,000; players who met specified criteria for league service had a maximum of $215,000.<a href="#cite_note-135">[129]</a> WNBA players are awarded bonuses for certain achievements. Some of the bonuses given by the league (amount is per player), from 2020 to 2027 (the duration of the current CBA): WNBA champion: $11,356; Runner-up: $5,678; Most Valuable Player: $15,450; All-WNBA First Team member: $10,300; and All-Star Game participant: $2,575.<a href="#cite_note-136">[130]</a> These were only modest increases from amounts provided before 2020.<a href="#cite_note-137">[131]</a> In recent years, the lack of roster space for rookies, thus hampering their professional development, has become a major issue. While the 2020 CBA led to maximum player salaries nearly doubling from 2019 to 2022, the team cap only increased by slightly less than 40% in that period. Because the cap is a hard cap, many WNBA teams now carry only 11 players on their rosters instead of the maximum 12, leading Stewart to state "We're at a tipping point. . . . without some easy tweaks, we are no longer a league that has 12 teams and 144 players — it's more like 133." The WNBA also has no developmental league similar to the <a href="/wiki/NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a>; <a href="/wiki/Chiney_Ogwumike" title="Chiney Ogwumike">Chiney Ogwumike</a>, a vice president of the players' union, publicly called for such a league. While roster limits have always been a significant issue in the league—between the first WNBA draft in 1997 and 2021, more than 40% of drafted players never made a roster—this became especially apparent at the dawn of the 2020s. In one notable example, the <a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_NCAA_Division_I_women%27s_basketball_season" title="2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season">2019</a> <a href="/wiki/Naismith_College_Player_of_the_Year" title="Naismith College Player of the Year">Naismith Trophy</a> winner <a href="/wiki/Megan_Gustafson" title="Megan Gustafson">Megan Gustafson</a> did not make an opening-day roster in 2019, and had only played in parts of the 2019–2021 seasons before being cut in the 2022 preseason. This issue gained major publicity during the week before the start of the 2022 season. The <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a>, which began that week with barely over $12,000 of cap room, cut six players, including the 2020 Rookie of the Year <a href="/wiki/Crystal_Dangerfield" title="Crystal Dangerfield">Crystal Dangerfield</a>, their 2021 first-round pick <a href="/wiki/Rennia_Davis" title="Rennia Davis">Rennia Davis</a>, and both of their 2022 draft picks. The <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a>, whose first 2022 draft pick was in the middle of the second round, waived that pick (<a href="/wiki/Elissa_Cunane" title="Elissa Cunane">Elissa Cunane</a>), and the <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> waived both of their picks, one of them a first-rounder.<a href="#cite_note-138">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-139">[133]</a> Another clause in the 2020 CBA, known as the "prioritization" clause, has been viewed as a potential problem for the league. Because of overseas league commitments, a significant number of WNBA players have reported late to training camp each season. Several overseas leagues and continental club competitions overlap with WNBA training camps, and even with the start of the WNBA season. For example, 55 WNBA players missed the start of training camp in 2021, meaning that most teams were unable to start practice with their full rosters.<a href="#cite_note-Hruby-140">[134]</a> Starting in 2023, teams are required to fine players with more than two years of WNBA experience who miss the start of training camp. (Exemptions are provided for national team commitments, graduations, and other significant life events.) Starting in 2024, the league can penalize a veteran player who does not report to camp with a season-long suspension without pay.<a href="#cite_note-Negley20220211-141">[135]</a> In a 2021 episode of a podcast hosted by <a href="/wiki/Napheesa_Collier" title="Napheesa Collier">Napheesa Collier</a> and <a href="/wiki/A%27ja_Wilson" title="A'ja Wilson">A'ja Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Napheesa_Collier" title="Napheesa Collier">Collier</a> raised the prospect of players choosing to abandon the WNBA for higher overseas salaries, telling Wilson "If I'm not making that much in the league, if it's not enough for me to survive on during the year, I'm going overseas and having the summer off."<a href="#cite_note-Hruby-140">[134]</a> When Stewart re-signed with the Seattle Storm as a free agent before the 2022 season, she cited the prioritization clause as the reason she only signed a one-year contract.<a href="#cite_note-Negley20220211-141">[135]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Player_revenue">Player revenue</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Player revenue">edit</a>]</div> There are many factors that play into the smaller wages WNBA players receive during their season, but two major contributors are revenue and viewership numbers and the allocation of funds by both the NBA and the WNBA. It is estimated that wages for NBA players take up 50% of the league's annual revenue, while WNBA players only receive 20% of their league's income.<a href="#cite_note-:13-142">[136]</a> Kelsey Plum said in an interview with The Residency Podcast, "We're not asking to get paid what the men get paid. We're asking to get paid the same percentage of revenue shared."<a href="#cite_note-143">[137]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Viewership">Viewership</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Viewership">edit</a>]</div> In sports, <a href="/wiki/Revenue" title="Revenue">revenue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Viewership" class="mw-redirect" title="Viewership">viewership</a> are indicators of how much money the sport is generating. It can be brought in through sales such as tickets and merchandise, as well as how many spectators are broadcasting the game. The salary of players and the finances that go into maintaining the sport depend on viewership. Without revenue and viewership, it is difficult to uphold and maintain sporting facilities and equipment. In 2019, it was reported that the total revenue the WNBA brought in was $102 million. New data shows that in 2023, the league and teams together are estimated to bring in around $180 million to $200 million in revenue.<a href="#cite_note-145">[139]</a> The WNBA's audience has increased by 67% halfway through the 2023 season, with an average of 556,184 viewers per game.<a href="#cite_note-146">[140]</a> Their social media presence has also risen in popularity, garnering more than 24 million views across all social media platforms.<a href="#cite_note-:13-142">[136]</a> With increased media attention on women's basketball, Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Cathy_Engelbert" title="Cathy Engelbert">Cathy Engelbert</a> announced in May 2024 that the league would allocate $50 million over two years to fund charter flights for players.<a href="#cite_note-147">[141]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Player_marketing_agreements">Player marketing agreements</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Player marketing agreements">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2_Jasmine_Thomas_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/2_Jasmine_Thomas_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-2_Jasmine_Thomas_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/2_Jasmine_Thomas_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-2_Jasmine_Thomas_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/2_Jasmine_Thomas_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-2_Jasmine_Thomas_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2617" data-file-height="2436" /></a><figcaption>Jasmine Thomas, player for the Los Angeles Sparks, is one of the 10 players with a PMA contract.</figcaption></figure> Player marketing agreements are contracts that allow WNBA players to bring in more individual revenue by promoting the WNBA year-round.<a href="#cite_note-:22-148">[142]</a> As of 2022, there are 10 players who have signed PMAs: <a href="/wiki/Diamond_DeShields" title="Diamond DeShields">Diamond DeShields</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dearica_Hamby" title="Dearica Hamby">Dearica Hamby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Napheesa_Collier" title="Napheesa Collier">Napheesa Collier</a>, <a href="/wiki/DiDi_Richards" title="DiDi Richards">DiDi Richards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arike_Ogunbowale" title="Arike Ogunbowale">Arike Ogunbowale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kahleah_Copper" title="Kahleah Copper">Kahleah Copper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ariel_Atkins" title="Ariel Atkins">Ariel Atkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jasmine_Thomas_(basketball)" title="Jasmine Thomas (basketball)">Jasmine Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kelsey_Mitchell_(basketball)" title="Kelsey Mitchell (basketball)">Kelsey Mitchell</a>, and Izzy Harrison.<a href="#cite_note-149">[143]</a> The league is expected to spend $1 million on PMAs annually, and this funding is divided between the players who have signed contracts, with a <a href="/wiki/Salary_cap" title="Salary cap">salary cap</a> of $250,000.<a href="#cite_note-:22-148">[142]</a> While this is a way for players to make more money during their off-season, it is also a way for the league to keep players from going overseas, as they become tied to the WNBA and are unable to play in leagues in Europe and elsewhere. Players choose to sign PMAs for many different reasons, ranging anywhere from injuries sustained in-season that need to be rested to childcare responsibilities.<a href="#cite_note-:22-148">[142]</a> These agreements are still in their infancy stage and need further developing and funding to become a viable option for more WNBA players who are looking to increase their revenue.<a href="#cite_note-:22-148">[142]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="NBA_support">NBA support</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: NBA support">edit</a>]</div> The WNBA is half-owned by the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> and receives between $10-$15 million dollars annually to <a href="/wiki/Subsidy" title="Subsidy">subsidize</a> the league from the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>'s yearly revenue, which in 2022, reached up to $10 billion.<a href="#cite_note-150">[144]</a> Six WNBA teams are considered sister teams to the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> teams based in the same areas and are directly connected to those <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> teams and their markets. The <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>'s allotment of funding to all WNBA teams, not just sister teams, has been discussed in many academic and sports analysis circles, with some authors arguing that the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> should be doing more to support the WNBA if they want the league to succeed.<a href="#cite_note-:02-151">[145]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sponsor_(commercial)" title="Sponsor (commercial)">Sponsorship</a> and television deals continue to be an area where the WNBA creates less revenue than their <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> counterparts, with the WNBA bringing in $25 million from <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> bringing in $930 million from <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and <a href="/wiki/TNT_(American_TV_network)" title="TNT (American TV network)">TNT</a>. Some argue that the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> could be working harder to bridge that gap between organizations and either share more revenue from deals or help the WNBA create their own more profitable agreements.<a href="#cite_note-:02-151">[145]</a> In July 2024, the WNBA negotiated a new media rights deal as part of a total package with the NBA valued at $77 billion. Prior to re-negotiating their deal, the WNBA media rights were only valued at $60 million a year. Under the new deal, the WNBA can expect to earn $200 million a year for the next eleven years, more than a 300% increase over previous years,<a href="#cite_note-sherwood.news-109">[103]</a> but because the media deal lumps the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a> together with the WNBA, the true valuation of the WNBA media rights remains unknown.<a href="#cite_note-:7-106">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Merchandise">Merchandise</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Merchandise">edit</a>]</div> The following shows the top jersey sales during the <a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_season" title="2021 WNBA season">2021 regular season</a>, based on sales through the WNBA's official online store.<a href="#cite_note-2021_jerseys-152">[146]</a> However, a story by <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a> journalist Alex Azzi argued that the WNBA's merchandise rankings were misleading for multiple reasons.<a href="#cite_note-153">[147]</a> <ul><li>At any given time, the WNBA has at most 144 players, but at the time of the story, "ready to ship" replica team jerseys were available for fewer than 20 of them. Many of the league's top players in the 2021 season were not among those with "ready to ship" jerseys. The only such jersey available for <a href="/wiki/Jonquel_Jones" title="Jonquel Jones">Jonquel Jones</a>, who would be named <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="WNBA Most Valuable Player Award">league MVP</a> shortly after the story ran, was a replica of the jersey she wore in <a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2021 WNBA All-Star Game">that season's All-Star Game</a>, and not her <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> jersey. The league's leading scorer that season, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Charles_(basketball)" title="Tina Charles (basketball)">Tina Charles</a>, had no ready-made jersey available for sale. Also, not all of the ready-made jerseys were available in youth sizes. All other player replica jerseys must be custom-ordered, which take longer to ship, cost more, and are only available in adult sizes. The only <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> player with a ready-made jersey, <a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a>, had not played in the league since 2018 (and would formally announce her retirement in 2023).</li> <li>Some teams, among them the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Lynx</a>, offer a larger variety of ready-made replica jerseys in their online team stores. Also, <a href="/wiki/Dick%27s_Sporting_Goods" title="Dick's Sporting Goods">Dick's Sporting Goods</a>, which had entered into a multi-year marketing agreement with the league shortly before the story ran, has a wider availability of such jerseys than the WNBA online store. However, the league's official merchandise rankings do not include sales through any outlets other than its online store.</li> <li>While over 80% of WNBA players are black, the top three on this list, as well as four of the top five, are white. A study by two researchers at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst" title="University of Massachusetts Amherst">University of Massachusetts</a> published earlier in 2021 concluded that after controlling for points and rebounds, white players individually averaged twice as much media mentions as black players during the 2020 season.<a href="#cite_note-154">[148]</a> This discrepancy was specifically called out by white <a href="/wiki/UConn_Huskies_women%27s_basketball" title="UConn Huskies women's basketball">UConn</a> superstar <a href="/wiki/Paige_Bueckers" title="Paige Bueckers">Paige Bueckers</a> during her acceptance speech at the <a href="/wiki/2021_ESPY_Awards" title="2021 ESPY Awards">2021 ESPY Awards</a>, and Azzi argued that it contributed to the perceived racial bias in the WNBA merchandise rankings.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="11">Jersey Sales </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <th width="7%">Rank </th> <td width="9.3%">1</td> <td width="9.3%">2</td> <td width="9.3%">3</td> <td width="9.3%">4</td> <td width="9.3%">5</td> <td width="9.3%">6</td> <td width="9.3%">7</td> <td width="9.3%">8</td> <td width="9.3%">9</td> <td width="9.3%">10 </td></tr> <tr> <th width="7%">Player </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Sabrina_Ionescu" title="Sabrina Ionescu">Sabrina Ionescu</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sue_Bird" title="Sue Bird">Sue Bird</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/A%27ja_Wilson" title="A'ja Wilson">A'ja Wilson</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Breanna Stewart</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Candace_Parker" title="Candace Parker">Candace Parker</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Skylar_Diggins-Smith" title="Skylar Diggins-Smith">Skylar Diggins-Smith</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Elena_Delle_Donne" title="Elena Delle Donne">Elena Delle Donne</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liz_Cambage" title="Liz Cambage">Liz Cambage</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th width="7%">Team </th> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">Liberty</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Storm</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Aces</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Storm</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Sky</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Mercury</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Mystics</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Lynx</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Aces</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> The following shows the top teams in merchandise sales during the 2021 regular season.<a href="#cite_note-2021_jerseys-152">[146]</a> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="11">Team Sales </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <th width="7%">Rank </th> <td width="9.3%">1</td> <td width="9.3%">2</td> <td width="9.3%">3</td> <td width="9.3%">4</td> <td width="9.3%">5 </td></tr> <tr> <th width="7%">Team </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Presidents_/_Commissioners">Presidents / Commissioners</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Presidents / Commissioners">edit</a>]</div> The title of the league's chief executive was "President" before <a href="/wiki/Cathy_Engelbert" title="Cathy Engelbert">Cathy Engelbert</a> became the first "Commissioner". <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Val_Ackerman" title="Val Ackerman">Val Ackerman</a>, 1996–2005</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donna_Orender" title="Donna Orender">Donna Orender</a>, 2005–2010</li> <li>Chris Granger, 2011 (interim)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurel_J._Richie" title="Laurel J. Richie">Laurel J. Richie</a>, 2011–2015</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Borders" title="Lisa Borders">Lisa Borders</a>, 2015–2018<a href="#cite_note-LBStepDown-155">[149]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Tatum" title="Mark Tatum">Mark Tatum</a>, 2018–2019 (interim)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathy_Engelbert" title="Cathy Engelbert">Cathy Engelbert</a>, 2019–present<a href="#cite_note-156">[150]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attendance">Attendance</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Attendance">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WNBA_attendance.webp" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/WNBA_attendance.webp/300px-WNBA_attendance.webp.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/WNBA_attendance.webp/450px-WNBA_attendance.webp.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/WNBA_attendance.webp/600px-WNBA_attendance.webp.png 2x" data-file-width="3449" data-file-height="2082" /></a><figcaption>WNBA attendance 1997-2023</figcaption></figure> In the inaugural <a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_season" title="1997 WNBA season">1997 WNBA season</a>, average attendance for the regular season was 9,661 attendants with 112 games played. Average attendance increased by 12% the following year in 1998 over 150 games. By 2000, the regular WNBA season consisted of 256 games and attendance dropped with an average of 9,142 attendants per game for season 2000-2003. Beginning in 2003, attendance dropped at a rate of approximately 5% year-over-year until 2006 when average attendance was 7,479. From 2007 to 2014, attendance numbers remained relatively steady with a low of 7,457 in 2012 and a high of 8,039 in 2009.<a href="#cite_note-:5-157">[151]</a> In 2015, the WNBA's attendance per game decreased by 3.4% to 7,318. This was a record low for the WNBA since it was established in 1997. The relocation of the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio Stars</a> to <a href="/wiki/Freeman_Coliseum" title="Freeman Coliseum">Freeman Coliseum</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">Tulsa Shock</a> to Arlington likely contributed to particularly large drops in attendance in 2015 (−37.4% and −7.2% respectively). With record low attendance, the WNBA sought to improve their branding effort for the following 20th anniversary season and the WNBA President, <a href="/wiki/Laurel_J._Richie" title="Laurel J. Richie">Laurel J. Richie</a>, discussed creating an expansion committee to evaluate if and how the WNBA should go about expanding their reach.<a href="#cite_note-158">[152]</a> Attendance in 2016 and 2017 recovered slightly with average attendance at 7,655 and 7,716 respectively, but the 2018 and 2019 seasons each set the lowest average attendance in WNBA history (6,769 and 6,535 respectively). However, about half of the decline in attendance from 2017 to 2018 was due to the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> moving from 19,812-seat <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> to the 5,000-seat <a href="/wiki/Westchester_County_Center" title="Westchester County Center">Westchester County Center</a>. While the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">Liberty</a> had averaged over 9,000 fans in 2017, <a href="/wiki/James_L._Dolan" title="James L. Dolan">James Dolan</a>, then the team's owner, noted that roughly half of the team's attendance in that season came from complimentary tickets.<a href="#cite_note-159">[153]</a> Similarly in 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> moved from the 20,356-seat <a href="/wiki/Capital_One_Arena" title="Capital One Arena">Capital One Arena</a> to the 4,111-seat <a href="/wiki/Entertainment_and_Sports_Arena" title="Entertainment and Sports Arena">Entertainment and Sports Arena</a>. The Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty each saw double-digit percentage losses in 2019, but half of the league's teams saw attendance increases in that season, and the number of sellouts was the same in both seasons (41).<a href="#cite_note-SBD_2019-160">[154]</a> With plans to expand the number of games played by each team from 34 to 36 regular season games, and with the introduction of the mid-season <a href="/wiki/WNBA_Commissioner%27s_Cup" title="WNBA Commissioner's Cup">Commissioner's Cup</a> tournament to be broadcast on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and <a href="/wiki/ABC_News_(United_States)" title="ABC News (United States)">ABC</a>, the league had high hopes for the <a href="/wiki/2020_WNBA_season" title="2020 WNBA season">2020 WNBA season</a>, but that was derailed when the season was postponed indefinitely due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> on April 3. Instead, the league held an abbreviated 22-game regular season at <a href="/wiki/IMG_Academy" title="IMG Academy">IMG Academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bradenton,_Florida" title="Bradenton, Florida">Bradenton, Florida</a> with no fans in attendance. The <a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_season" title="2021 WNBA season">2021 WNBA season</a> was also shortened to a 32-game regular season and attendance numbers remained low with an average of 2,620 people in attendance per game, likely due to persistent fears around the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> virus and new protocols put in place for large indoor venues. By 2022, average attendance had rebounded to 5,646 and in 2023 attendance had recovered to pre-pandemic numbers with 6,615 average attendance per game.<a href="#cite_note-:5-157">[151]</a> 2024 turned out to be a breakout season for WNBA attendance, with an average of 9,807 fans per game and an increase of 48% over the 2023 season. Three games drew more than 20,000 fans during the 2024 season, including a record-breaking attendance of 20,711 fans when the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> visited the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> on September 19.<a href="#cite_note-:6-107">[101]</a> A surge in interest in women's college basketball preceded the <a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_season" title="2024 WNBA season">2024 WNBA season</a>, with viewership of the 2024 women's <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_women%27s_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament">NCAA</a> <a href="/wiki/2024_NCAA_Division_I_women%27s_basketball_championship_game" title="2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game">championship game</a> up over 90% from <a href="/wiki/2023_NCAA_Division_I_women%27s_basketball_championship_game" title="2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game">the previous season</a> and marking the first time in <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">NCAA</a> history where viewership for the women's championship game exceeded the <a href="/wiki/2024_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_championship_game" title="2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game">men's</a>.<a href="#cite_note-161">[155]</a> Sports analysts cite intense interest in the incoming 2024 rookie class, led by number one draft pick <a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Clark" title="Caitlin Clark">Caitlin Clark</a>, as the reason for the dramatic increases in attendance, dubbing her ability to drive up ticket sales "<a href="/wiki/Caitlin_Clark_effect" title="Caitlin Clark effect">Clarkonomics</a>".<a href="#cite_note-162">[156]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center; background:#ffe6bd">Attendance</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">1990s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Year </th> <th colspan="12">Team </th> <th colspan="2">League </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">CHA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Rockers" title="Cleveland Rockers">CLE</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">DET</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">HOU</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">LA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">MIN</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Miracle" title="Orlando Miracle">ORL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">PHX</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">SAC</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">UTA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">WAS</a> </th> <th>Regular season </th> <th>Postseason </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_WNBA_season" title="1997 WNBA season">1997</a> </td> <td>8,307 </td> <td>7,971 </td> <td> </td> <td>9,814 </td> <td>8,937 </td> <td> </td> <td>13,270 </td> <td> </td> <td>13,703 </td> <td>7,858 </td> <td>7,611 </td> <td> </td> <td>9,684 </td> <td>14,849 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1998_WNBA_season" title="1998 WNBA season">1998</a> </td> <td>8,561 </td> <td>10,350 </td> <td>10,229 </td> <td>12,602 </td> <td>7,653 </td> <td> </td> <td>14,935 </td> <td> </td> <td>13,764 </td> <td>6,578 </td> <td>8,104 </td> <td>15,910 </td> <td>10,869 </td> <td>11,964 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_WNBA_season" title="1999 WNBA season">1999</a> </td> <td>7,080 </td> <td>9,350 </td> <td>8,485 </td> <td>11,906 </td> <td>7,625 </td> <td>10,494 </td> <td>14,047 </td> <td>9,801 </td> <td>12,219 </td> <td>8,626 </td> <td>7,544 </td> <td>15,306 </td> <td>10,207 </td> <td>12,647 </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">2000s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Year </th> <th colspan="20">Team </th> <th colspan="2">League </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">ATL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">CHA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">CHI</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Rockers" title="Cleveland Rockers">CLE</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">CON</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">DET</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">HOU</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">IND</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">LA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Miami_Sol" title="Miami Sol">MIA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">MIN</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Miracle" title="Orlando Miracle">ORL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">PHX</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Portland_Fire" title="Portland Fire">POR</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">SAC</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Silver_Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio Silver Stars">SA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">SEA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">UTA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">WAS</a> </th> <th>Regular season </th> <th>Postseason </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2000_WNBA_season" title="2000 WNBA season">2000</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>5,685 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,596 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,716 </td> <td>12,255 </td> <td>12,267 </td> <td>6,563 </td> <td>7,983 </td> <td>7,290 </td> <td>14,498 </td> <td>7,363 </td> <td>10,130 </td> <td>8,317 </td> <td>7,928 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,912 </td> <td>6,420 </td> <td>15,258 </td> <td>9,074 </td> <td>12,222 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_WNBA_season" title="2001 WNBA season">2001</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>6,595 </td> <td> </td> <td>9,211 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,834 </td> <td>11,320 </td> <td>8,683 </td> <td>9,278<a href="#cite_note-163">[a]</a> </td> <td>8,840 </td> <td>7,538 </td> <td>15,671 </td> <td>7,430 </td> <td>8,558 </td> <td>8,604 </td> <td>8,350 </td> <td> </td> <td>5,954 </td> <td>6,907 </td> <td>15,417 </td> <td>9,074 </td> <td>11,430 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2002_WNBA_season" title="2002 WNBA season">2002</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>6,667 </td> <td> </td> <td>9,318 </td> <td> </td> <td>5,686 </td> <td>10,866 </td> <td>8,434 </td> <td>11,651 </td> <td>8,828 </td> <td>7,819 </td> <td>14,670 </td> <td>7,115 </td> <td>8,737 </td> <td>8,041 </td> <td>9,011 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,989 </td> <td>7,420 </td> <td>16,202 </td> <td>9,228 </td> <td>11,537 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_season" title="2003 WNBA season">2003</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>7,062 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,400 </td> <td>6,023 </td> <td>7,862 </td> <td>8,835<a href="#cite_note-164">[b]</a> </td> <td>8,340 </td> <td>9,290 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,074 </td> <td>12,123 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,501 </td> <td> </td> <td>9,125 </td> <td>10,384 </td> <td>7,109 </td> <td> </td> <td>14,042 </td> <td>8,800 </td> <td>9,205 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2004_WNBA_season" title="2004 WNBA season">2004</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>6,846 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>6,707 </td> <td>9,462 </td> <td>8,086 </td> <td>7,588 </td> <td>10,428 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,359 </td> <td>9,886<a href="#cite_note-165">[c]</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>8,017 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,679 </td> <td>8,395 </td> <td>7,899 </td> <td> </td> <td>12,615 </td> <td>8,613 </td> <td>9,490 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_WNBA_season" title="2005 WNBA season">2005</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>5,768 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>7,173 </td> <td>9,374 </td> <td>7,099 </td> <td>8,382 </td> <td>8,854 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,673 </td> <td>10,140 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,303 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,542 </td> <td>7,944 </td> <td>8,891 </td> <td> </td> <td>10,088 </td> <td>8,172 </td> <td>8,397 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_WNBA_season" title="2006 WNBA season">2006</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>5,941 </td> <td>3,390 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,417 </td> <td>9,380 </td> <td>7,682 </td> <td>7,222 </td> <td>8,311 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,442 </td> <td>9,120 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,459 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,691 </td> <td>7,397 </td> <td>8,568 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,839 </td> <td>7,490 </td> <td>8,397 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_season" title="2007 WNBA season">2007</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>3,915 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,970 </td> <td>9,749 </td> <td>8,166 </td> <td>7,032 </td> <td>8,695 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,119 </td> <td>8,698 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,737 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,387 </td> <td>7,569 </td> <td>7,974 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,788 </td> <td>7,819 </td> <td>10,312 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2008_WNBA_season" title="2008 WNBA season">2008</a> </td> <td>8,316 </td> <td> </td> <td>3,656 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,644 </td> <td>9,569 </td> <td>6,585<a href="#cite_note-166">[d]</a> </td> <td>7,702 </td> <td>9,508 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,968 </td> <td>9,045 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,522 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,180 </td> <td>7,984 </td> <td>8,265 </td> <td> </td> <td>9,096 </td> <td>7,948 </td> <td>8,420 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2009_WNBA_season" title="2009 WNBA season">2009</a> </td> <td>7,102 </td> <td> </td> <td>3,932 </td> <td> </td> <td>6,794 </td> <td>8,004 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,939 </td> <td>10,387 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,537 </td> <td>9,800 </td> <td> </td> <td>8,523 </td> <td> </td> <td>7,744 </td> <td>7,527 </td> <td>7,874 </td> <td> </td> <td>11,338 </td> <td>8,039 </td> <td>9,979 </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-163"><a href="#cite_ref-163">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">LA</a> moved from <a href="/wiki/The_Forum_(Inglewood,_California)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Forum (Inglewood, California)">The Forum</a> to <a href="/wiki/Staples_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Staples Center">Staples Center</a> prior to the 2001 season. </li> <li id="cite_note-164"><a href="#cite_ref-164">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">HOU</a> moved from <a href="/wiki/Lakewood_Church_Central_Campus" title="Lakewood Church Central Campus">Compaq Center</a> to <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Center" title="Toyota Center">Toyota Center</a> prior to the 2003 season. </li> <li id="cite_note-165"><a href="#cite_ref-165">^</a> <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> played six games at <a href="/wiki/Radio_City_Music_Hall" title="Radio City Music Hall">Radio City Music Hall</a> in 2004. </li> <li id="cite_note-166"><a href="#cite_ref-166">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">HOU</a> moved from <a href="/wiki/Toyota_Center" title="Toyota Center">Toyota Center</a> to <a href="/wiki/Reliant_Arena" class="mw-redirect" title="Reliant Arena">Reliant Arena</a> prior to the 2008 season. </li> </ol></div></div> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">2010s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Year </th> <th colspan="14">Team </th> <th colspan="2">League </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">ATL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">CHI</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">CON</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">DAL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">IND</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">LA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">LV</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">MIN</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">PHX</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Silver_Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio Silver Stars">SA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">SEA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">TUL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">WAS</a> </th> <th>Regular season </th> <th>Postseason </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_WNBA_season" title="2010 WNBA season">2010</a> </td> <td>6,293 </td> <td>4,293<a href="#cite_note-167">[a]</a> </td> <td>7,486 </td> <td>— </td> <td>8,265 </td> <td>9,468 </td> <td>— </td> <td>7,622 </td> <td>11,069 </td> <td>8,982 </td> <td>8,041 </td> <td>8,322 </td> <td>4,812 </td> <td>9,357 </td> <td>7,834 </td> <td>10,822 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_WNBA_season" title="2011 WNBA season">2011</a> </td> <td>6,487 </td> <td>5,536 </td> <td>7,056 </td> <td>— </td> <td>8,054 </td> <td>10,316 </td> <td>— </td> <td>8,447 </td> <td>7,702<a href="#cite_note-NY1-168">[b]</a> </td> <td>9,167 </td> <td>8,751 </td> <td>8,659 </td> <td>4,828 </td> <td>10,449 </td> <td>7,954 </td> <td>9,232 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_WNBA_season" title="2012 WNBA season">2012</a> </td> <td>5,453 </td> <td>5,573 </td> <td>7,266 </td> <td>— </td> <td>7,582 </td> <td>10,089 </td> <td>— </td> <td>9,683 </td> <td>6,779<a href="#cite_note-NY1-168">[b]</a> </td> <td>7,814 </td> <td>7,850 </td> <td>7,486 </td> <td>5,203 </td> <td>8,639 </td> <td>7,452 </td> <td>9,195 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_WNBA_season" title="2013 WNBA season">2013</a> </td> <td>5,853 </td> <td>6,601 </td> <td>6,548 </td> <td>— </td> <td>8,164 </td> <td>9,869 </td> <td>— </td> <td>9,381 </td> <td>7,189<a href="#cite_note-NY1-168">[b]</a> </td> <td>8,557 </td> <td>7,914 </td> <td>6,981 </td> <td>5,474 </td> <td>7,838 </td> <td>7,531 </td> <td>7,574 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_WNBA_season" title="2014 WNBA season">2014</a> </td> <td>5,864 </td> <td>6,685 </td> <td>5,980 </td> <td>— </td> <td>7,900 </td> <td>8,288 </td> <td>— </td> <td>9,333 </td> <td>8,949 </td> <td>9,557 </td> <td>7,719 </td> <td>6,717 </td> <td>5,566 </td> <td>8,377 </td> <td>7,578<a href="#cite_note-SeattleTmes_blog_2014-169">[157]</a> </td> <td>8,200 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_WNBA_season" title="2015 WNBA season">2015</a><a href="#cite_note-2015_attendance_figures-170">[158]</a> </td> <td>6,122 </td> <td>6,894 </td> <td>5,557 </td> <td>— </td> <td>7,485 </td> <td>9,065 </td> <td>— </td> <td>9,364 </td> <td>9,159 </td> <td>9,946 </td> <td>4,831<a href="#cite_note-171">[c]</a> </td> <td>6,516 </td> <td>5,167 </td> <td>7,714 </td> <td>7,318<a href="#cite_note-2015_overall-172">[159]</a> </td> <td>8,799 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_WNBA_season" title="2016 WNBA season">2016</a> </td> <td>5,614 </td> <td>7,009 </td> <td>5,837 </td> <td>5,298 </td> <td>8,575 </td> <td>9,638 </td> <td>— </td> <td>9,266 </td> <td>9,724 </td> <td>10,351 </td> <td>6,385 </td> <td>7,230 </td> <td>— </td> <td>6,929 </td> <td>7,655<a href="#cite_note-173">[160]</a> </td> <td>8,719 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_WNBA_season" title="2017 WNBA season">2017</a> </td> <td>4,452<a href="#cite_note-ATL-174">[d]</a> </td> <td>6,583<a href="#cite_note-175">[e]</a> </td> <td>6,728 </td> <td>3,872 </td> <td>7,538 </td> <td>11,350 </td> <td>— </td> <td>10,407 </td> <td>9,989 </td> <td>9,913 </td> <td>6,386 </td> <td>7,704 </td> <td>— </td> <td>7,771 </td> <td>7,716<a href="#cite_note-176">[161]</a> </td> <td>9,590 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_WNBA_season" title="2018 WNBA season">2018</a> </td> <td>4,194<a href="#cite_note-ATL-174">[d]</a> </td> <td>6,358 </td> <td>6,569 </td> <td>4,752 </td> <td>6,311 </td> <td>10,642 </td> <td>5,307 </td> <td>10,036 </td> <td>2,823<a href="#cite_note-NY2-177">[f]</a> </td> <td>9,950 </td> <td>— </td> <td>8,109 </td> <td>— </td> <td>6,136 </td> <td>6,769 </td> <td>7,791 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2019_WNBA_season" title="2019 WNBA season">2019</a><a href="#cite_note-SBD_2019-160">[154]</a> </td> <td>4,270<a href="#cite_note-178">[g]</a> </td> <td>6,835 </td> <td>6,841 </td> <td>4,999 </td> <td>5,887 </td> <td>11,307 </td> <td>4,669<a href="#cite_note-179">[h]</a> </td> <td>9,069 </td> <td>2,239<a href="#cite_note-NY3-180">[i]</a> </td> <td>10,193 </td> <td>— </td> <td>7,562<a href="#cite_note-181">[j]</a> </td> <td>— </td> <td>4,546<a href="#cite_note-182">[k]</a> </td> <td>6,535 </td> <td>6,082 </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-167"><a href="#cite_ref-167">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">CHI</a> moved from <a href="/wiki/UIC_Pavilion" class="mw-redirect" title="UIC Pavilion">UIC Pavilion</a> to <a href="/wiki/Allstate_Arena" title="Allstate Arena">Allstate Arena</a> prior to the 2010 season. </li> <li id="cite_note-NY1-168">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NY1_168-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NY1_168-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NY1_168-2">c</a> <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> moved temporarily from <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> to <a href="/wiki/Prudential_Center" title="Prudential Center">Prudential Center</a> from 2011 through 2013 </li> <li id="cite_note-171"><a href="#cite_ref-171">^</a> <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">SA</a> moved temporarily from <a href="/wiki/AT%26T_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="AT&T Center">AT&T Center</a> to <a href="/wiki/Freeman_Coliseum" title="Freeman Coliseum">Freeman Coliseum</a> for the 2015 season. </li> <li id="cite_note-ATL-174">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ATL_174-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ATL_174-1">b</a> <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">ATL</a> moved temporarily from Philips Arena, now known as <a href="/wiki/State_Farm_Arena" title="State Farm Arena">State Farm Arena</a>, to <a href="/wiki/McCamish_Pavilion" title="McCamish Pavilion">McCamish Pavilion</a> for the 2017 and 2018 seasons. </li> <li id="cite_note-175"><a href="#cite_ref-175">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">CHI</a> moved from <a href="/wiki/Allstate_Arena" title="Allstate Arena">Allstate Arena</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wintrust_Arena" title="Wintrust Arena">Wintrust Arena</a> prior to the 2018 season. </li> <li id="cite_note-NY2-177"><a href="#cite_ref-NY2_177-0">^</a> <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> moved to <a href="/wiki/Westchester_County_Center" title="Westchester County Center">Westchester County Center</a> prior to the 2018 season with Madison Square Garden as an alternate home. </li> <li id="cite_note-178"><a href="#cite_ref-178">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">ATL</a> returned to <a href="/wiki/State_Farm_Arena" title="State Farm Arena">State Farm Arena</a> for one season. </li> <li id="cite_note-179"><a href="#cite_ref-179">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">LV</a> played one game at <a href="/wiki/T-Mobile_Arena" title="T-Mobile Arena">T-Mobile Arena</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-NY3-180"><a href="#cite_ref-NY3_180-0">^</a> <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> played one game at the <a href="/wiki/Barclays_Center" title="Barclays Center">Barclays Center</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-181"><a href="#cite_ref-181">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">SEA</a> moved temporarily from <a href="/wiki/Climate_Pledge_Arena" title="Climate Pledge Arena">Climate Pledge Arena</a> to <a href="/wiki/Hec_Edmundson_Pavilion" title="Hec Edmundson Pavilion">Alaska Airlines Arena</a> and <a href="/wiki/Angel_of_the_Winds_Arena" title="Angel of the Winds Arena">Angel of the Winds Arena</a> for at least the 2019 season. </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><a href="#cite_ref-182">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">WAS</a> moved from <a href="/wiki/Capital_One_Arena" title="Capital One Arena">Capital One Arena</a> to <a href="/wiki/St._Elizabeths_East_Entertainment_and_Sports_Arena" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena">St. Elizabeths East Entertainment and Sports Arena</a> prior to the 2019 season. Played one game at Capital One. </li> </ol></div></div> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843"><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible" style="border:1px #aaa solid;"><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">2020s</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Year </th> <th colspan="12">Team </th> <th colspan="2">League </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">ATL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">CHI</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">CON</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">DAL</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">IND</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">LA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">LV</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">MIN</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">PHX</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">SEA</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">WAS</a> </th> <th>Regular season </th> <th>Postseason </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_WNBA_season" title="2020 WNBA season">2020</a> </td> <td colspan="14">Due to the <a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_sports" title="Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, the season was played in <a href="/wiki/IMG_Academy" title="IMG Academy">Bradenton, Florida</a> without fans.<a href="#cite_note-183">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-184">[163]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_season" title="2021 WNBA season">2021</a> </td> <td>1,347 </td> <td>3,187 </td> <td>2,992 </td> <td>2,101 </td> <td>— </td> <td>1,221 </td> <td>2,943 </td> <td>2,696 </td> <td>1,874 </td> <td>5,849 </td> <td>2,607 </td> <td>2,183 </td> <td>2,636 </td> <td>7,783 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_WNBA_season" title="2022 WNBA season">2022</a> </td> <td>2,572 </td> <td>7,180 </td> <td>5,712 </td> <td>3,788 </td> <td>1,776 </td> <td>5,653 </td> <td>5,607 </td> <td>7,444 </td> <td>5,327 </td> <td>7,974 </td> <td>10,632 </td> <td>3,983 </td> <td>5,679 </td> <td>8,889 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_WNBA_season" title="2023 WNBA season">2023</a> </td> <td>3,006 </td> <td>7,242 </td> <td>6,244 </td> <td>4,641 </td> <td>4,067 </td> <td>6,554 </td> <td>9,551 </td> <td>7,777 </td> <td>7,777 </td> <td>9,197 </td> <td>8,929 </td> <td>4,391 </td> <td>6,608 </td> <td>9,346 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_season" title="2024 WNBA season">2024</a> </td> <td>4,744 </td> <td>8,757 </td> <td>8,451 </td> <td>5,911 </td> <td>17,036 </td> <td>11,045 </td> <td>11,283 </td> <td>9,292 </td> <td>12,730 </td> <td>10,715 </td> <td>11,184 </td> <td>6,542 </td> <td>9,807 </td> <td>- </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_coverage">Media coverage</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Media coverage">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">WNBA on ESPN</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_Lifetime" title="WNBA on Lifetime">WNBA on Lifetime</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_Oxygen" title="WNBA on Oxygen">WNBA on Oxygen</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_NBC" title="WNBA on NBC">WNBA on NBC</a>, and <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_Prime_Video" title="NBA on Prime Video">NBA on Prime Video</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rebecca_Lobo_taken_by_Danny_Karwoski.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Rebecca_Lobo_taken_by_Danny_Karwoski.jpg/175px-Rebecca_Lobo_taken_by_Danny_Karwoski.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Rebecca_Lobo_taken_by_Danny_Karwoski.jpg/263px-Rebecca_Lobo_taken_by_Danny_Karwoski.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Rebecca_Lobo_taken_by_Danny_Karwoski.jpg/350px-Rebecca_Lobo_taken_by_Danny_Karwoski.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1947" data-file-height="2548" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lobo" title="Rebecca Lobo">Rebecca Lobo</a>, a former WNBA player, has transitioned into a successful broadcasting career, providing analysis and commentary on WNBA games.</figcaption></figure> Currently, WNBA games are televised throughout the U.S. by <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ABC</a>, <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ESPN2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ion_Television" title="Ion Television">Ion Television</a>, <a href="/wiki/NBATV" class="mw-redirect" title="NBATV">NBATV</a>, <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports" title="CBS Sports">CBS</a>, and <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports_Network" title="CBS Sports Network">CBS Sports Network</a>. In the early years, two women-oriented networks, <a href="/wiki/Lifetime_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lifetime (TV network)">Lifetime</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oxygen_(TV_channel)" title="Oxygen (TV channel)">Oxygen</a>, also broadcast games, including the first game of the WNBA. <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> showed games from 1997 to 2002 as part of their <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_NBC" title="NBA on NBC">NBA on NBC</a> coverage before the league transferred the rights to <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ABC/ESPN</a>. In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>, the first agreement to pay television rights fees to a women's professional league. The new television deal runs from 2009 to 2016. A minimum of 18 games will be broadcast on <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ABC</a>, <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ESPN</a>, and <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ESPN2</a> each season; the rights to broadcast the first regular-season game and the All-Star game are held by <a href="/wiki/ABC_News_(United_States)" title="ABC News (United States)">ABC</a>. Additionally, a minimum of 11 postseason games will be broadcast on any of the three networks.<a href="#cite_note-185">[164]</a> Along with this deal, came the first-ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league. Over the eight years of the contract, "millions and millions of dollars" will be "dispersed to the league's teams".<a href="#cite_note-one-186">[165]</a> In 2013, the WNBA and <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> signed a six-year extension on the broadcast deal to cover 2017–2022. In the new deal, a total of 30 games would be shown each season on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> networks. Each team would receive around $1 million per year.<a href="#cite_note-187">[166]</a> On April 22, 2019, <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports_Network" title="CBS Sports Network">CBS Sports Network</a> reached a multi-year deal to televise 40 regular-season weekend and primetime WNBA games, beginning in the <a href="/wiki/2019_WNBA_season" title="2019 WNBA season">2019 season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-188">[167]</a><a href="#cite_note-189">[168]</a> On April 20, 2023, <a href="/wiki/Ion_Television" title="Ion Television">Ion Television</a> signed a multi-year deal with the WNBA to air a 15-week slate of <a href="/wiki/Doubleheader_(television)" title="Doubleheader (television)">doubleheader</a> games on Friday nights (branded as WNBA Friday Night Spotlight on <a href="/wiki/Ion_Television" title="Ion Television">ION</a>), beginning with that year's <a href="/wiki/2023_WNBA_season" title="2023 WNBA season">regular season</a>. It will be the first national sports broadcast carried by <a href="/wiki/Ion_Television" title="Ion Television">Ion</a> since 2011, and marks the first ever television contract for <a href="/wiki/Scripps_Sports" title="Scripps Sports">Scripps Sports</a>, which was founded by the <a href="/wiki/E._W._Scripps_Company" title="E. W. Scripps Company">E. W. Scripps Company</a> in December 2022 to acquire sports events for Ion and the group's local television stations. The agreement also grants local rights to selected Ion <a href="/wiki/Owned-and-operated_stations" class="mw-redirect" title="Owned-and-operated stations">O&Os</a> for games involving regional WNBA teams, which stations may carry in early- or late-evening broadcast windows depending on tip-off time.<a href="#cite_note-190">[169]</a><a href="#cite_note-191">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[171]</a> The first broadcast was on May 26, 2023, when the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> visited the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a>.<a href="#cite_note-193">[172]</a> Starting in 2026, the WNBA will begin a new 11-year agreement that will see games return to NBC Sports, as well as remain on ESPN/ABC and Amazon Prime Video. With this new deal, the league will distribute more than 125 games nationally (a minimum of 25 across ESPN/ABC, 50 across NBC platforms, and 30 on Prime Video) and worldwide. ESPN continues on as the league's All-Star and Draft broadcaster, Prime Video continues as the broadcaster for the league's Commissioner's Cup games, and NBC will pick up rights to all USA Basketball games. In addition, the WNBA Playoffs and Finals will see a wider distribution across the three partners, where each partner airs a first round series annually (two on ESPN/ABC and one each on NBC platforms and Prime Video), and rotates turns airing the semifinals and Finals (eight semifinals and five Finals on ESPN/ABC and seven semifinals and three Finals on NBC platforms and Prime Video). The WNBA also stated that they are expected to add additional media partners prior to the first year of the new deal. Some teams offer games on local radio, while all teams have some games broadcast on local television stations: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bally_Sports_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Bally Sports South">Bally Sports South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bally_Sports_Southeast" class="mw-redirect" title="Bally Sports Southeast">Bally Sports Southeast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago</a> – <a href="/wiki/WCIU-TV" title="WCIU-TV">WCIU-TV</a>, <a href="/wiki/WMEU-CD" title="WMEU-CD">WMEU-CD</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marquee_Sports_Network" title="Marquee Sports Network">Marquee Sports Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut</a> – <a href="/wiki/New_England_Sports_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="New England Sports Network">NESN</a>, <a href="/wiki/WCCT-TV" title="WCCT-TV">WCCT-TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bally_Sports_Southwest" class="mw-redirect" title="Bally Sports Southwest">Bally Sports Southwest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bally_Sports_Indiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Bally Sports Indiana">Bally Sports Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas</a> – <a href="/wiki/KVVU" class="mw-redirect" title="KVVU">KVVU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles</a> – <a href="/wiki/Spectrum_SportsNet_(Los_Angeles)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectrum SportsNet (Los Angeles)">Spectrum SportsNet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bally_Sports_North" class="mw-redirect" title="Bally Sports North">Bally Sports North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York</a> – <a href="/wiki/WNYW" title="WNYW">WNYW</a>, <a href="/wiki/WWOR-TV" title="WWOR-TV">WWOR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix</a> – <a href="/wiki/KTVK" title="KTVK">KTVK</a>, <a href="/wiki/KPHE" class="mw-redirect" title="KPHE">KPHE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle</a> – <a href="/wiki/KZJO" title="KZJO">KZJO</a>, <a href="/wiki/KCPQ" title="KCPQ">KCPQ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington</a> – <a href="/wiki/Monumental_Sports_Network" title="Monumental Sports Network">Monumental Sports Network</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="WNBA_League_Pass">WNBA League Pass</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: WNBA League Pass">edit</a>]</div> In 2009, the WNBA announced the launch of WNBA LiveAccess, a feature on WNBA.com that provides fans with access to more than 200 live game webcasts throughout the WNBA season. All of the WNBA LiveAccess games are then archived for on-demand viewing. Most games (except broadcasts on <a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">ABC, ESPN or ESPN2</a>, which are available on <a href="/wiki/ESPN3" title="ESPN3">ESPN3</a>) are available via this system. The first use of LiveAccess was the E League versus <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> preseason game.<a href="#cite_note-194">[173]</a> Before the 2011 season, LiveAccess was given an overhaul, and the system became more reliable and many new features were added. Before the 2012 season, it was announced that users of LiveAccess would have to pay a $4.99 subscription fee to use the service. In 2013, this was increased to $14.99. In 2014 the streaming service was renamed <a href="/wiki/WNBA_League_Pass" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA League Pass">WNBA League Pass</a>. WNBA League Pass is available as part of the WNBA App, the free mobile application available on the iPhone, iPad and Android devices and costs US$16.99 for the season. Games airing on ESPN, ESPN2 and CBS Sports Network, as well as other games taking place during the telecast windows of <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and <a href="/wiki/ESPN2" title="ESPN2">ESPN2</a> games, are not available live on WNBA League Pass. However, those games will be available on-demand shortly after the conclusion of their live broadcast.<a href="#cite_note-195">[174]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Viewership_2">Viewership</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Viewership">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 70%; margin:1em auto;"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:16%;">Year </th> <th style="width:20%;">Season </th> <th style="width:25%;">Telecasts on ESPN/ESPN2/ABC/CBS </th> <th style="width:25%;">Average viewership </th> <th style="width:25%;">+/− over previous </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_WNBA_season" title="2005 WNBA season">2005</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>282,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2006_WNBA_season" title="2006 WNBA season">2006</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>14 </td> <td>242,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_season" title="2007 WNBA season">2007</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>16 </td> <td>221,000 </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2008_WNBA_season" title="2008 WNBA season">2008</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>13 </td> <td>248,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>12 </td> <td>282,000 </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2009_WNBA_season" title="2009 WNBA season">2009</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>12 </td> <td>269,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>13 </td> <td>435,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2010_WNBA_season" title="2010 WNBA season">2010</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>18 </td> <td>258,000 </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>7 </td> <td>370,000 </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2011_WNBA_season" title="2011 WNBA season">2011</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>11 </td> <td>270,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>15 </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2012_WNBA_season" title="2012 WNBA season">2012</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>10 </td> <td>180,000 </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>19 </td> <td>301,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2013_WNBA_season" title="2013 WNBA season">2013</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>13 </td> <td>231,000<a href="#cite_note-forbes2013-196">[175]</a> </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>17 </td> <td>344,000<a href="#cite_note-197">[176]</a> </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2014_WNBA_season" title="2014 WNBA season">2014</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>19 </td> <td>240,000<a href="#cite_note-espn_2014_regular-198">[177]</a> </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>10 </td> <td>489,000<a href="#cite_note-199">[178]</a> </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2015_WNBA_season" title="2015 WNBA season">2015</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>11 (includes 1 on ESPN) </td> <td>202,000<a href="#cite_note-2015_attendance_figures-170">[158]</a> </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2016_WNBA_season" title="2016 WNBA season">2016</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>224,000<a href="#cite_note-200">[179]</a> </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/2017_WNBA_season" title="2017 WNBA season">2017</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>171,000<a href="#cite_note-201">[180]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>346,000<a href="#cite_note-:2-45">[45]</a> </td> </tr></tbody><caption> </caption> <tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2018_WNBA_season" title="2018 WNBA season">2018</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td> </td> <td>231,000<a href="#cite_note-espnpressroom.com-202">[181]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td> </td> <td>319,000<a href="#cite_note-espnpressroom.com-202">[181]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/2019_WNBA_season" title="2019 WNBA season">2019</a> </td> <td>Regular </td> <td> </td> <td>246,000<a href="#cite_note-203">[182]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Playoffs </td> <td> </td> <td>258,000<a href="#cite_note-204">[183]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-45">[45]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_season" title="2021 WNBA season">2021</a> </td> <td>Playoffs </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>367,000<a href="#cite_note-:2-45">[45]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2022 </td> <td>Regular Playoffs </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>412,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>2023 </td> <td>Regular Playoffs </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td>505,000 </td> <td>+ </td></tr></tbody></table> On the <a href="/wiki/2008_WNBA_season" title="2008 WNBA season">2008 season</a> opening day (May 17), <a href="/wiki/ABC_News_(United_States)" title="ABC News (United States)">ABC</a> broadcast the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> matchup to showcase new rookie sensation <a href="/wiki/Candace_Parker" title="Candace Parker">Candace Parker</a>. The game received a little over 1 million viewers. In 2008, WNBA games averaged just 413,000 viewers, compared to 1.46 million viewers on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and over 2.2 million on ABC for NBA games.<a href="#cite_note-auto1-205">[184]</a> In addition, WNBA games have much poorer visibility, attendance, and ratings than <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I" title="NCAA Division I">NCAA</a> games.<a href="#cite_note-auto-206">[185]</a> In 2011, the regular-season broadcast drew 270,000 viewers, an increase of 5% over the 2010 season.<a href="#cite_note-207">[186]</a> As sponsorships continued to grow with deals from <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> to air WNBA games on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and <a href="/wiki/ESPN2" title="ESPN2">ESPN2</a>. The league did experience some success on the digital forefront. In 2015, WNBA.com saw a 26% increase in mobile page views, along with a major increase in its social media space; WNBA <a href="/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram">Instagram</a> grew by 51% that year.<a href="#cite_note-208">[187]</a> <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> viewership grew 35% in 2018 over 2017.<a href="#cite_note-auto2-209">[188]</a> This became the impetus for the multi-year partnership in which <a href="/wiki/CBS_Sports_Network" title="CBS Sports Network">CBS Sports Network</a> would broadcast live WNBA games beginning with the 2019 season.<a href="#cite_note-auto3-210">[189]</a> The 2023 season broke viewership and attendance records. Viewership was up 21% compared to the 2022 season within the four national televised networks.<a href="#cite_note-:3-211">[190]</a> (<a href="/wiki/ABC_News_(United_States)" title="ABC News (United States)">ABC</a>, <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>, <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> & <a href="/wiki/ESPN2" title="ESPN2">ESPN2</a>) Attendance was up 16% compared to the previous season and the average game attendance per fan was 6,615 which is the highest since 2018.<a href="#cite_note-:3-211">[190]</a> The 2024 WNBA regular season set an all-time record with more than 54 million unique viewers and a record 22 games that garnered more than one million viewers each. With an 170% increase in viewership over the 2023 season, the 2024 regular season was the most-viewed season ever across <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> platforms with an average of 1.19 million viewers per game.<a href="#cite_note-212">[191]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="All-time_franchise_history_(through_2024)">All-time franchise history (through 2024)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: All-time franchise history (through 2024)">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2024)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th>Team </th> <th>Years </th> <th>Attendance Avg. </th> <th>W </th> <th>L </th> <th>PCT </th> <th>Playoffs </th> <th>Playoffs W </th> <th>Playoffs L </th> <th>Playoffs PCT </th> <th>Titles </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a> </td> <td>2008–present </td> <td>6,455 </td> <td>160 </td> <td>180 </td> <td>.471 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>15 </td> <td>18 </td> <td>.455 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Sting" title="Charlotte Sting">Charlotte Sting</a> </td> <td>1997–2006 </td> <td>6,851 </td> <td>143 </td> <td>179 </td> <td>.444 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>13 </td> <td>.316 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a> </td> <td>2006–present </td> <td>5,054 </td> <td>179 </td> <td>229 </td> <td>.439 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>12 </td> <td>.368 </td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Rockers" title="Cleveland Rockers">Cleveland Rockers</a> </td> <td>1997–2003 </td> <td>8,885 </td> <td>108 </td> <td>112 </td> <td>.491 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>.400 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> (total) <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><a href="#ref_Note11">1</a> </td> <td>1999–present </td> <td>7,132 </td> <td>339 </td> <td>299 </td> <td>.531 </td> <td>10 </td> <td>21 </td> <td>21 </td> <td>.500 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> </td> <td>2003–present </td> <td>6,887 </td> <td>279 </td> <td>231 </td> <td>.547 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>20 </td> <td>19 </td> <td>.513 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a> (total) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_Note12">2</a> </td> <td>1998–present </td> <td>7,382 </td> <td>296 </td> <td>372 </td> <td>.443 </td> <td>10 </td> <td>30 </td> <td>22 </td> <td>.577 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a> </td> <td>2016–present </td> <td>4,640 </td> <td>27 </td> <td>41 </td> <td>.397 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>.550 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> </td> <td>1998–2009 </td> <td>8,463 </td> <td>210 </td> <td>186 </td> <td>.530 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>30 </td> <td>19 </td> <td>.612 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Valkyries" title="Golden State Valkyries">Golden State Valkyries</a> </td> <td>To begin 2025 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Houston_Comets" title="Houston Comets">Houston Comets</a> </td> <td>1997–2008 </td> <td>9,592 </td> <td>241 </td> <td>149 </td> <td>.618 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>20 </td> <td>14 </td> <td>.588 </td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a> </td> <td>2000–present </td> <td>8,138 </td> <td>310 </td> <td>296 </td> <td>.512 </td> <td>13 </td> <td>35 </td> <td>33 </td> <td>.515 </td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> (total) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_Note13">3</a> </td> <td>1997–present </td> <td>7,692 </td> <td>291 </td> <td>405 </td> <td>.418 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>10 </td> <td>23 </td> <td>.303 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> </td> <td>2018–present </td> <td>9,551 </td> <td>137 </td> <td>61 </td> <td>.692 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>66 </td> <td>29 </td> <td>.695 </td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Sparks" title="Los Angeles Sparks">Los Angeles Sparks</a> </td> <td>1997–present </td> <td>9,080 </td> <td>424 </td> <td>272 </td> <td>.609 </td> <td>17 </td> <td>45 </td> <td>38 </td> <td>.542 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Miami_Sol" title="Miami Sol">Miami Sol</a> </td> <td>2000–2002 </td> <td>8,556 </td> <td>48 </td> <td>48 </td> <td>.500 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>.333 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Lynx" title="Minnesota Lynx">Minnesota Lynx</a> </td> <td>1999–present </td> <td>8,008 </td> <td>347 </td> <td>291 </td> <td>.544 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>41 </td> <td>19 </td> <td>.683 </td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> </td> <td>1997–present </td> <td>10,873 </td> <td>371 </td> <td>325 </td> <td>.533 </td> <td>15 </td> <td>27 </td> <td>36 </td> <td>.429 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Miracle" title="Orlando Miracle">Orlando Miracle</a> </td> <td>1999–2002 </td> <td>7,927 </td> <td>60 </td> <td>68 </td> <td>.469 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>.333 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> </td> <td>1997–present </td> <td>9,307 </td> <td>358 </td> <td>338 </td> <td>.514 </td> <td>12 </td> <td>36 </td> <td>29 </td> <td>.554 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Portland_Fire" title="Portland Fire">Portland Fire</a> </td> <td>2000–2002 </td> <td>8,321 </td> <td>37 </td> <td>59 </td> <td>.385 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>.000 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Portland_WNBA_team" title="Portland WNBA team">Portland WNBA team</a> </td> <td>To begin 2026 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Monarchs" title="Sacramento Monarchs">Sacramento Monarchs</a> </td> <td>1997–2009 </td> <td>8,287 </td> <td>224 </td> <td>200 </td> <td>.527 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>24 </td> <td>19 </td> <td>.558 </td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio Stars</a> </td> <td>2003–2017 </td> <td>7,857 </td> <td>204 </td> <td>306 </td> <td>.400 </td> <td>7 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>18 </td> <td>.308 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Storm" title="Seattle Storm">Seattle Storm</a> </td> <td>2000–present </td> <td>7,697 </td> <td>303 </td> <td>303 </td> <td>.500 </td> <td>13 </td> <td>19 </td> <td>22 </td> <td>.463 </td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Toronto_WNBA_team" title="Toronto WNBA team">Toronto WNBA team</a> </td> <td>To begin 2026 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">Tulsa Shock</a> </td> <td>2010–2015 </td> <td>5,173 </td> <td>59 </td> <td>145 </td> <td>.289 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>.000 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">Utah Starzz</a> </td> <td>1997–2002 </td> <td>7,334 </td> <td>87 </td> <td>99 </td> <td>.468 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>5 </td> <td>.286 </td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington_Mystics" title="Washington Mystics">Washington Mystics</a> </td> <td>1998–present </td> <td>11,288 </td> <td>273 </td> <td>395 </td> <td>.409 </td> <td>10 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>21 </td> <td>.276 </td> <td>1 </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_Note11">1</a> The <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a> was known as the <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Miracle" title="Orlando Miracle">Orlando Miracle</a> from 1999–2002.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_Note12">2</a> The <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Wings" title="Dallas Wings">Dallas Wings</a> were known as the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Shock" title="Detroit Shock">Detroit Shock</a> from 1998–2009 and the <a href="/wiki/Tulsa_Shock" title="Tulsa Shock">Tulsa Shock</a> from 2010–2015.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><a href="#ref_Note13">3</a> The <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">Las Vegas Aces</a> were known as the <a href="/wiki/Utah_Starzz" title="Utah Starzz">Utah Starzz</a> from 1997–2002, the San Antonio Silver Stars from 2003–2013, and the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Stars" title="San Antonio Stars">San Antonio Stars</a> from 2014–2017.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Offseason">Offseason</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Offseason">edit</a>]</div> In July 2023, <a href="/wiki/Napheesa_Collier" title="Napheesa Collier">Napheesa Collier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Breanna_Stewart" title="Breanna Stewart">Breanna Stewart</a> announced <a href="/wiki/Unrivaled_(basketball_league)" title="Unrivaled (basketball league)">Unrivaled</a>, a women's professional three-on-three <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a> league.<a href="#cite_note-213">[192]</a> The league was founded, in part, to allow <a href="/wiki/WNBA" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">WNBA</a> players to play domestically and to bypass complications from the <a href="/wiki/WNBA" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">WNBA</a>'s prioritization rule for players who choose to play overseas in the WNBA offseason. <a href="/wiki/Unrivaled_(basketball_league)" title="Unrivaled (basketball league)">Unrivaled</a>'s inaugural season, consisting of six teams of six players is slotted to begin in January 2025 in <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami, Florida</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Yahoo-214">[193]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output 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The Athletic. 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season</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Conference_(WNBA)" title="Eastern Conference (WNBA)">East</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:#D0E7FF;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Dream" title="Atlanta Dream">Atlanta Dream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Sky" title="Chicago Sky">Chicago Sky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Sun" title="Connecticut Sun">Connecticut Sun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Fever" title="Indiana Fever">Indiana Fever</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York 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(page does not exist)">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ivorian_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivorian Women's Basketball Championship (page does not exist)">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kenyan_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kenyan Women's Basketball Championship (page does not exist)">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lesotho_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lesotho Women's Basketball Championship (page does not exist)">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liberian_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Liberian Women's Basketball Championship (page does not exist)">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Libyan_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Libyan Women's Basketball Championship (page does not 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href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Dominican_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Dominican Basketball League (page does not exist)">Dominica</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Liga_Nacional_de_Baloncesto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Liga Nacional de Baloncesto (page does not exist)">Dominican Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Ecuadorian_Metropolitan_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Ecuadorian Metropolitan Basketball League (page does not exist)">Ecuador</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liga_Mexicana_de_Baloncesto_Profesional_Femenil&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Liga Mexicana de Baloncesto Profesional Femenil (page does not exist)">Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol_Femenino" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol Femenino">Paraguay</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Peruan_Metropolitan_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Peruan Metropolitan Basketball League (page does not exist)">Peru</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Baloncesto_Superior_Nacional&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Baloncesto Superior Nacional (page does not exist)">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">United States</a> <ul><li>3-on-3: <a href="/wiki/Unrivaled_(basketball_league)" title="Unrivaled (basketball league)">Unrivaled</a></li> <li>U.S. Minor: <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Basketball_Development_Association" title="Women's Basketball Development Association">WBDA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_women%27s_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament">NCAA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Liga_Uruguaya_de_Basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Liga Uruguaya de Basketball">Uruguay</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Liga_Profesional_de_Baloncesto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Liga Profesional de Baloncesto (page does not exist)">Venezuela</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #ffcc00;"><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Asia" title="FIBA Asia">Asia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Bahrain_Basketball_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Bahrain Basketball Association (page does not exist)">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Women's Chinese Basketball Association">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Hong_Kong_Basketball_Association" title="Women's Hong Kong Basketball Association">Hong Kong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Championship_(women)" title="National Basketball Championship (women)">India</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_League_(Indonesia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's National Basketball League (Indonesia) (page does not exist)">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="Iranian Women's Basketball League">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iraqi_Women%27s_Division_I_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iraqi Women's Division I Basketball League (page does not exist)">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Japan_Basketball_League" title="Women's Japan Basketball League">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Jordanian_Premier_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Jordanian Premier Basketball League (page does not exist)">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Kazakh_National_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Kazakh National League (page does not exist)">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Kyrgyzstani_National_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Kyrgyzstani National League (page does not exist)">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Kuwaiti_Division_I_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League (page does not exist)">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Basketball_League" title="Lebanese Basketball League">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_National_Basketball_League_(Malaysia)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's National Basketball League (Malaysia) (page does not exist)">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Mongolian_National_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Mongolian National League (page does not exist)">Mongolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_League_(Philippines)" title="Women's National Basketball League (Philippines)">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Oman_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Oman Basketball League (page does not exist)">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Qatari_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Qatari Basketball League (page does not exist)">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Saudi_Premier_League_(basketball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Saudi Premier League (basketball) (page does not exist)">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Singapores_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Singapores Basketball League (page does not exist)">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Korean_Basketball_League" title="Women's Korean Basketball League">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Syrian_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Syrian Basketball League (page does not exist)">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Super_Basketball_League" title="Women's Super Basketball League">Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Thailand_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Thailand Basketball League (page does not exist)">Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_UAE_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's UAE Basketball League (page does not exist)">United Arab Emirates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #3399cc;"><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Europe" title="FIBA Europe">Europe</a></th><td 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(Women)">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship" title="Bulgarian Women's Basketball Championship">Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_First_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="Croatian First Women's Basketball League">Croatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus_Women%27s_Basketball_Division_A" title="Cyprus Women's Basketball Division A">Cyprus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kad%C4%B1nlar_Basketbol_Ligi" title="Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi">North</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="Czech Women's Basketball League">Czech Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dameligaen" class="mw-redirect" title="Dameligaen">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Korvpalli_Meistriliiga" title="Women's Korvpalli Meistriliiga">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naisten_Korisliiga" title="Naisten Korisliiga">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_F%C3%A9minine_de_Basketball" title="Ligue Féminine de Basketball">France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga" title="Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_British_Basketball_League" title="Women's British Basketball League">Great Britain</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/English_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="English Women's Basketball League">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Basketball_Championship_Women" title="Scottish Basketball Championship Women">Scotland</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="Greek Women's Basketball League">Greece</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A2_National_Women%27s_Basketball" title="A2 National Women's Basketball">2nd division</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemzeti_Bajnoks%C3%A1g_I/A_(women%27s_basketball)" title="Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A (women's basketball)">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Arvalsdeild_kvenna_(basketball)" title="Úrvalsdeild kvenna (basketball)">Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Super_League_(basketball)" title="Women's Super League (basketball)">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_Female_Basketball_Premier_League" title="Israeli Female Basketball Premier League">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lega_Basket_Femminile" title="Lega Basket Femminile">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=ETC_Women%27s_Superleague&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ETC Women's Superleague (page does not exist)">Kosovo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LSBL_Championships" title="LSBL Championships">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Women%27s_Basketball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Women's Basketball League">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationale_1_Dames" title="Nationale 1 Dames">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maltese_Women%27s_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maltese Women's Basketball League (page does not exist)">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Moldovan_Women%27s_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Moldovan Women's Basketball League (page does not exist)">Moldavia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Women%27s_Basketball_League_of_Macedonia" class="mw-redirect" title="First Women's Basketball League of Macedonia">Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_A_Women%27s_Basketball_League_of_Montenegro" title="First A Women's Basketball League of Montenegro">Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Basketball_League_(Netherlands)" title="Women's Basketball League (Netherlands)">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_BLNO&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's BLNO (page does not exist)">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basket_Liga_Kobiet" title="Basket Liga Kobiet">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Feminina_de_Basquetebol" title="Liga Feminina de Basquetebol">Portugal</a></li> <li><a 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Basketball League Asia">Women's Basketball League Asia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/EuroLeague_Women" title="EuroLeague Women">EuroLeague Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EuroCup_Women" title="EuroCup Women">EuroCup Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Europe_SuperCup_Women" title="FIBA Europe SuperCup Women">Europe SuperCup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WABA_League" title="WABA League">Adriatic League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="Baltic Women's Basketball League">Baltic League</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Europe_Women%27s_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Europe Women's League (page does not exist)">Central Europe League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="European Women's Basketball League">Eastern European League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em">Defunct leagues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_American_Championship_for_Women%27s_Clubs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Central American Championship for Women's Clubs (page does not exist)">Central American Championships</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronchetti_Cup" title="Ronchetti Cup">Ronchetti Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vojko_Herksel_Cup" title="Vojko Herksel Cup">Vojko Herksel Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_European_League" title="Middle European League">Middle European League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WBFAL" title="WBFAL">Adriatic Friendly League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship" title="Czechoslovak Women's Basketball Championship">Czechoslovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GDR_championship_women%27s_basketball" title="GDR championship women's basketball">East Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Women%27s_Basketball_Championship" title="Soviet Women's Basketball Championship">Soviet Union</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=First_Women%27s_Basketball_League_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="First Women's Basketball League of Serbia 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Development Association">WBDA</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Athletes_Unlimited_Basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletes Unlimited Basketball">Athletes Unlimited</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_League_(1996%E2%80%931998)" title="American Basketball League (1996–1998)">American League</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_American_Basketball_Association_(1984)" title="Women's American Basketball Association (1984)">WABA (1984)</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Basketball_Association" title="Women's Basketball Association">WBA</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/National_Women%27s_Basketball_League" title="National Women's Basketball League">NWBL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Professional_Basketball_League" title="Women's Professional Basketball League">WBL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_women%27s_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament">NCAA Division I</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_II_women%27s_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament">NCAA Division II</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_III_women%27s_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament">NCAA Division III</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Basketball_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Basketball Championships">NAIA</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/U_Sports_women%27s_basketball" title="U Sports women's basketball">U Sports</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey#Women's_ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">Ice hockey</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Professional_Women%27s_Hockey_League" title="Professional Women's Hockey League">PWHL</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Ice_Hockey_Tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament">NCAA Division I</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_III_women%27s_ice_hockey" title="NCAA Division III women's ice hockey">NCAA Division III</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/U_Sports_women%27s_ice_hockey" title="U Sports women's ice hockey">U Sports</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Women%27s_Hockey_League" title="Canadian Women's Hockey League">CWHL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Western_Women%27s_Hockey_League" title="Western Women's Hockey League">WWHL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Premier_Hockey_Federation" title="Premier Hockey Federation">PHF</a> (defunct)</dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_association_football" title="Women's association football">Soccer</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/National_Women%27s_Soccer_League" title="National Women's Soccer League">NWSL</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/USL_Super_League" title="USL Super League">USL Super League</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Premier_Soccer_League" title="Women's Premier Soccer League">WPSL</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/United_Women%27s_Soccer" title="United Women's Soccer">UWS</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Liga_MX_Femenil" title="Liga MX Femenil">Liga MX</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Liga_Mexicana_de_F%C3%BAtbol_Femenil" title="Liga Mexicana de Fútbol Femenil">LIMEFFE</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Women%27s_Soccer_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship">NCAA Division I</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Soccer_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Soccer Championship">NAIA</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/U_Sports_women%27s_soccer" title="U Sports women's soccer">U Sports</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Professional_Soccer" title="Women's Professional Soccer">WPS</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_United_Soccer_Association" title="Women's United Soccer Association">WUSA</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_League_Soccer" title="Women's League Soccer">WLS</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Premier_Soccer_League_Elite" title="Women's Premier Soccer League Elite">WPSL Elite</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/USL_W_League" title="USL W League">USL</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/USL_W-League_(1995%E2%80%932015)" title="USL W-League (1995–2015)">USL (1995)</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Northern_Super_League" title="Northern Super League">Northern Super League</a> (beginning play in 2025)</dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Softball" title="Softball">Softball</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Athletes_Unlimited_Softball" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletes Unlimited Softball">Athletes Unlimited</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Fastpitch_Professionals" title="Association of Fastpitch Professionals">AFP</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Professional_Fastpitch" title="Women's Professional Fastpitch">WPF</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament" title="NCAA Division I softball tournament">NCAA Division I</a> (<a href="/wiki/Women%27s_College_World_Series" title="Women's College World Series">WCWS</a>)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Softball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Softball Championship">NAIA</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/National_Pro_Fastpitch" title="National Pro Fastpitch">NPF</a> (defunct)</dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Gridiron_football" title="Gridiron football">Gridiron football</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Football_Conference" title="Women's National Football Conference">WNFC</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Football_Alliance" title="Women's Football Alliance">WFA</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/United_States_Women%27s_Football_League" title="United States Women's Football League">USWFL</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Maritime_Women%27s_Football_League" title="Maritime Women's Football League">MWFL</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Western_Women%27s_Canadian_Football_League" title="Western Women's Canadian Football League">WWCFL</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Women%27s_League" title="American Football Women's League">AFWL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Independent_Women%27s_Football_League" title="Independent Women's Football League">IWFL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Legends_Football_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Legends Football League">LFL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/LFL_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="LFL Canada">LFL Canada</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/National_Women%27s_Football_Association" title="National Women's Football Association">NWFA</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_American_Football_League" title="Women's American Football League">WAFL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Football_Association_(2002%E2%80%9303)" title="Women's Football Association (2002–03)">WFA</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Football_League" title="Women's Football League">WFL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Professional_Football_League" title="Women's Professional Football League">WPFL</a> (defunct)</dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rugby_union" title="Women's rugby union">Rugby union</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Elite_Rugby" title="Women's Elite Rugby">WER</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Premier_League_Rugby" title="Women's Premier League Rugby">WPL</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_lacrosse" title="Women's lacrosse">Lacrosse</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/United_Women%27s_Lacrosse_League" title="United Women's Lacrosse League">UWLX</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Professional_Lacrosse_League" title="Women's Professional Lacrosse League">WPLL</a> (defunct)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Athletes_Unlimited_Pro_Lacrosse" title="Athletes Unlimited Pro Lacrosse">Athletes Unlimited</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Lacrosse_League" title="Women's Lacrosse League">WLL</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_volleyball" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's volleyball">Volleyball</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Athletes_Unlimited_Volleyball" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletes Unlimited Volleyball">AU</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/LOVB_Pro" title="LOVB Pro">LOVB</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Pro_Volleyball_Federation" title="Pro Volleyball Federation">PVF</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_sports" title="Women's sports">Other sports</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Pro_Baseball_League" title="Women's Pro Baseball League">Baseball</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/LPGA" title="LPGA">Golf</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/National_Ringette_League" title="National Ringette League">Ringette</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Flat_Track_Derby_Association" title="Women's Flat Track Derby Association">Roller derby</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Premier_Ultimate_League" title="Premier Ultimate League">Ultimate disc</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em">Leagues by association</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">NCAA</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a 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<dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Rowing_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Division I Rowing Championship">Rowing</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Women%27s_Swimming_and_Diving_Championships" title="NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships">Swimming and diving</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Tennis_Championship" title="NCAA Women's Tennis Championship">Tennis</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Indoor_Track_and_Field_Championship" title="NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship">Indoor track and field</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Outdoor_Track_and_Field_Championship" title="NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship">Outdoor track and field</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Volleyball_Championship" title="NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship">Volleyball</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NCAA_Women%27s_Water_Polo_Championship" title="NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship">Water polo</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Intercollegiate_Athletics" title="National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics">NAIA</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Cross_Country_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Cross Country Championship">Cross country</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Golf_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Golf Championship">Golf</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Swimming_and_Diving_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships">Swimming and diving</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Tennis_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Tennis Championship">Tennis</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Indoor_Track_and_Field_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship">Indoor track and field</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Women%27s_Outdoor_Track_and_Field_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship">Outdoor track and field</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_Volleyball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA Volleyball Championship">Volleyball</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/NAIA_lacrosse" title="NAIA lacrosse">Lacrosse</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Top-level_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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League Cricket">Cricket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">American football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Football_League" title="Canadian Football League">Canadian football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arena_football" title="Arena football">Arena football</a> (<a href="/wiki/Arena_Football_One_(2025)" title="Arena Football One (2025)">AF1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indoor_Football_League" title="Indoor Football League">IFL</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">Ice hockey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Lacrosse_League" title="National Lacrosse League">Box lacrosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premier_Lacrosse_League" title="Premier Lacrosse League">Field lacrosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USA_Rugby_League" title="USA Rugby League">Rugby league</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Rugby" title="Major League Rugby">Rugby union</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Professional_Women%27s_Hockey_League" title="Professional Women's Hockey League">Ice hockey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Lacrosse_League" title="Women's Lacrosse League">Lacrosse sixes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ringette_League" title="National Ringette League">Ringette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Elite_Rugby" title="Women's Elite Rugby">Rugby union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premier_Rugby_Sevens" title="Premier Rugby Sevens">Rugby sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soccer" class="mw-redirect" title="Soccer">Soccer</a> (<a href="/wiki/National_Women%27s_Soccer_League" title="National Women's Soccer League">NWSL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USL_Super_League" title="USL Super League">USLS</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Softball" title="Softball">Softball</a> (<a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Professional_Fastpitch" title="Women's Professional Fastpitch">WPF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Fastpitch_Professionals" title="Association of Fastpitch 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