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Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson is the 2023 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year

Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson is the 2023 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year

Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson is the 2023 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year. A 6-4 sixth-year league veteran, Wilson also earned the honor last season. This season she garnered 32 votes from a…

Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally is the 2023 WNBA Most Improved Player

Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally is the 2023 WNBA Most Improved Player

Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally is the 2023 WNBA Most Improved Player. The four-year league veteran was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft and received 37 of 60 votes from a…

Las Vegas Aces forward Alysha Clark named the 2023 WNBA Sixth Player of the Year

Las Vegas Aces forward Alysha Clark named the 2023 WNBA Sixth Player of the Year

Las Vegas Aces forward Alysha Clark is the 2023 WNBA Sixth Player of the Year in her first year with the franchise. It is the first honor as the league’s top reserve for the 11-year…

Connecticut Sun’s Stephanie White named 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year

Connecticut Sun’s Stephanie White named 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year

Connecticut Sun head coach Stephanie White is the 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year. In a vote by a national panel consisting of 60 sportswriters and broadcasters, White secured 36 votes, solidifying her position at…

New York Liberty General Manager Jonathan Kolb named the 2023 WNBA Basketball Executive of the Year

New York Liberty General Manager Jonathan Kolb named the 2023 WNBA Basketball Executive of the Year

New York Liberty General Manager Jonathan Kolb is the 2023 WNBA Basketball Executive of the Year. Kolb, in his fifth year as General Manager, earned the honor for the first time. He is the first…

Liberty tops league-leading Aces in Commissioner’s Cup 82-63; Jonquel Jones named MVP

Liberty tops league-leading Aces in Commissioner’s Cup 82-63; Jonquel Jones named MVP

The New York Liberty (24-6) took down the league-leading Las Vegas Aces 82-63 in the third annual WNBA Commissioner’s Cup competition Tuesday night. Liberty forward/center Jonquel Jones earned the MVP award with 16 points and…

The NCAA creates a new 32-team postseason event: Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament; WNIT and WBI respond

The NCAA creates a new 32-team postseason event: Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament; WNIT and WBI respond

WNIT response || WBI Response The NCAA is adding another postseason women’s tournament to its lineup. The organization announced the launch of the 32-team Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament for 2024. The event will be completely…

Jewell Loyd Leads Team Stewart to All-Star Game Victory in Record-breaking Fashion

Jewell Loyd Leads Team Stewart to All-Star Game Victory in Record-breaking Fashion

With her parents in the audience celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, Seattle Storm’s Jewell Loyd led Team Stewart in record-breaking fashion to a win over Team Wilson 143-127 in the All-Star game Saturday night in…

Dynamic duo of Kelsey Plum and Chelsea Gray Win 2023 WNBA All-Star Skills Challenge

Dynamic duo of Kelsey Plum and Chelsea Gray Win 2023 WNBA All-Star Skills Challenge

2023 WNBA All-Star Skills Challenge on July 14, 2023, in Las Vegas, NV at Michelob Ultra Arena (Photo Ethan Miller/Getty Images). On Friday, the dynamic duo of Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum from the Las…

Phoenix Mercury fires head coach Vanessa Nygaard

Phoenix Mercury fires head coach Vanessa Nygaard

The Phoenix Mercury fired head coach Vanessa Nygaard the team announced Sunday. The team has a five-game losing streak and sits at 2-10. The team hired Nygaard on January 24, 2002. She compiled a 17-30…

Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu asks WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert about the league playing in Saudi Arabia

Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu asks WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert about the league playing in Saudi Arabia

Today, during the Bloomberg Invest conference, Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu asked WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert about the possibility of the league playing a game in Saudi Arabia in light of recent news of the merger of…

Las Vegas Aces Top Futures Odds in Sportsbooks for the 2023 Season, New York Liberty Close Behind

Las Vegas Aces Top Futures Odds in Sportsbooks for the 2023 Season, New York Liberty Close Behind

How to Read Futures Odds The WNBA season is set to kick off tomorrow, May 19 with four games. With a stacked roster that includes the additions of veterans Candace Parker and Alysha Clark, the…

WNBA Players Get “Priority Pass” Airport Lounge Memberships To Help Ease Travel Woes

WNBA Players Get “Priority Pass” Airport Lounge Memberships To Help Ease Travel Woes

During the 2023 WNBA season, airport experience company Collinson will provide players membership in its “Priority Pass” program. The pass “provides a comfortable space and a much-needed respite for players while waiting on a pre-…

WNBA rescinds Las Vegas Aces’ 2025 first-round draft pick for violating league rules; suspends Becky Hammon for two games

WNBA rescinds Las Vegas Aces’ 2025 first-round draft pick for violating league rules; suspends Becky Hammon for two games

Las Vegas Aces response The WNBA announced the following today: The WNBA announced today that it has rescinded the Las Vegas Aces’ 2025 first-round draft pick for violating league rules regarding impermissible player benefits and…

Video: Brittney Griner Q&A with media, “I’m never playing overseas again unless I’m representing my country at the Olympics.”

Video: Brittney Griner Q&A with media, “I’m never playing overseas again unless I’m representing my country at the Olympics.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhpe8VNAA2s Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner spoke to the media Thursday ahead of her return to play with the three-time WNBA champions. Attendees at the packed press conference in Phoenix included Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs…

Las Vegas Aces Open Dedicated Team Practice and Headquarters Facility

Las Vegas Aces Open Dedicated Team Practice and Headquarters Facility

The Las Vegas Aces announced a “first-of-its-kind” practice and team headquarters facility this week. The venue opens just in time for the beginning of 2023 training camp sessions which begin on April 30. While the…

The WNBA gets a new TV broadcaster; ION set to air games on Friday Nights

The WNBA gets a new TV broadcaster; ION set to air games on Friday Nights

The WNBA announced a multi-year agreement to air regular-season games on Friday nights on national TV network ION. The network is available over the air and on major cable networks. The games will add to…

Cavinder Twins Ink Exclusive Deal With Sports Betting Company Betr

Cavinder Twins Ink Exclusive Deal With Sports Betting Company Betr

Less than ten days after announcing they were leaving Miami, Haley and Hanna Cavinder signed an exclusive deal with sports betting company Betr. The twins, who were senior guards in the one year they played…

Results of the 2023 WNBA Draft

Results of the 2023 WNBA Draft

  Round 1 Pick Team Player College/Country 1 Indiana Fever Aliyah Boston South Carolina 2 Minnesota Lynx Diamond Miller Maryland 3 Dallas Wings Maddy Siegrist Villanova 4 Washington Mystics Stephanie Soares Rights traded to Dallas…

FanDuel Odds for the WNBA Draft and Futures Odds for the Championship

FanDuel Odds for the WNBA Draft and Futures Odds for the Championship

Complete Draft Order Sports betting is becoming legal in more and more states. Massachusetts became the latest state to allow state residents to place wagers on sporting events with the opening of retail sportsbooks at…

WNBA to expand charter flights program for the 2023 season

WNBA to expand charter flights program for the 2023 season

The WNBA announced that it will expand its charter flight program for the 2023 season. From the league: The charter program will include flights for all postseason games beginning with the start of 2023 WNBA…

NCAA Players Who Filed For Inclusion in the 2023 WNBA Draft

NCAA Players Who Filed For Inclusion in the 2023 WNBA Draft

The WNBA revealed the updated list of players from colleges and universities who have formally filed for inclusion as candidates for the 2023 WNBA Draft set for April 10 at Spring Studios New York in…

LSU Downs Iowa 102-85, Tigers Win First National Championship in Program History

LSU Downs Iowa 102-85, Tigers Win First National Championship in Program History

DALLAS – With the backdrop of a sell-out crowd at American Airlines Center, LSU (34-2) won its first-ever national championship with a 102-85 victory over Iowa (31-7) Sunday afternoon.  Guard Jasmine Carsons’s prolific shooting in…

Final Four: LSU tops Virginia Tech; Iowa stuns South Carolina

Final Four: LSU tops Virginia Tech; Iowa stuns South Carolina

LSU and Iowa made history in reaching the Final Four as both first-timers set to play in the NCAA National Championship game. The No. 3-seeded LSU Tigers (33-2) punched its ticket with a furious fourth-quarter…

Ole Miss takes down No. 1 seed Stanford in historic win to advance to the Sweet 16

Ole Miss takes down No. 1 seed Stanford in historic win to advance to the Sweet 16

STANFORD, CA – Eighth-seeded Ole Miss (25-8, 11-5 SEC) made history Sunday night with a 54-49 victory over powerhouse and No. 1 seed Stanford (29-6, 15-3 PAC-12) in the second round of the NCAA tournament.…

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