This Week in Women's Basketball
Swish Appeal's weekly news roundup.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Prepare for draft drama?
Could the WNBA experience draft day drama? League scuttlebutt suggests presumptive No. 1 pick Paige Bueckers could force her way to an organization of her choice. Here’s more on Bueckers’ WNBA future, Caitlin Clark’s offseason and the WNBA coaching market.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Fab four headlines WBHOF Class of 2025
Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles will lead the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Unrivaled further readies for its forthcoming season, while the Seattle Storm coaching staff faces scrutiny.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Miller named Wings GM
More hiring news from around the WNBA, as the Dallas Wings install Curt Miller as general manager and the Las Vegas Aces add Ty Ellis to their coaching staff. USA Basketball also announces a 3x3 developmental camp.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Unrivaled expands to 36
Ahead of its inaugural season, Unrivaled already is expanding, with the 3x3 league now including 36 players. WNBA expansion also remains a topic of conversation in this week’s news.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: NYC celebrates the Liberty
The New York Liberty’s championship celebration highlights a cascade of women’s basketball news. Unrivaled announces team names, Nike re-ups with the WNBA, Angel Reese is slated for a signature shoe and more.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Unrivaled’s big media deal
Ahead of its inaugural season, Unrivaled, the 3x3 league co-founded by WNBA Finals rivals Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, announces a landmark media rights deal.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Best-of-seven Finals in 2025
As the 2024 WNBA Finals roll on, the league is preparing for next season, announcing changes to the playoff format, as well as the date of the 2025 WNBA Draft Lottery.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Indy hires new COO, GM
Fresh off the franchise’s most successful season since 2016, the Indiana Fever are refreshing their leadership team, with Lin Dunn moving into a senior advisor role and Amber Cox replacing her as general manager, as well as chief operating officer.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Harassment distracts from hoops
In the middle of the playoffs, the WNBA might be on the verge of a reckoning, as the WNBPA and individual players began to more prominently speak out against the racist, sexist and homophobic harassment that has been increasingly directed at players.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: What’s next for Commissioner, WNBA players?
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s failure to forthrightly call out the racism and sexism directed at WNBA players resulted in a week-long fall out. What’s next for the Commissioner and the players?
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Angel is out for the season
A historic rookie season ends too soon, with the Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese suffering a wrist injury that will sideline her for the remainder of the season.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Hamby sues WNBA, Aces
Dearica Hamby, still seeking a just outcome for the workplace discrimination she feels she experienced when a member of the Las Vegas Aces, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Aces and the WNBA.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Paige is Unrivaled
Unrivaled continues to establish itself as a ground breaker in the women’s pro basketball space, signing UConn star Paige Bueckers to an NIL deal. Here’s more on Bueckers’ big move and other women’s basketball news.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: $2.2 billion for the W
The WNBA’s new media rights deals could be six times more valuable than the league’s current deals. But, is a $2.2 billion media rights package still underselling the value of the league as an exponentially growing entertainment product?
This Week in Women’s Basketball: A’ja x NBA 2K25
A’ja Wilson is one of the cover athletes for NBA 2K25, the Phoenix Mercury are naming practice courts after Dianna Taurasi and women’s basketball owned the ESPYs.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Watch “Year 1”
Learn how Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso, Rickea Jackson and Nika Mühl are navigating their rookie seasons in "Year 1," a new, original docuseries from the WNBA. Olympic and All-Star jerseys also highlight the week’s news.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Hamby is headed to Paris
USA Basketball announced that Dearica Hamby will replace her Los Angeles Sparks teammate Cameron Brink on the 3x3 Women’s National Team for the 2024 Olympics.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Aces top WNBA team valuations
Sportico released it’s first-ever WNBA franchise valuations. The Las Vegas Aces top the list, followed by the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty. That and more news about the business of women’s basketball.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: What’s going on with the Aces investigation?
An update on the WNBA’s investigation into the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s arrangement with the Las Vegas Aces, WNBA All-Star voting and the league’s record viewership and attendance numbers.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: The W is going to The North
This week, the WNBA officially announced that a Toronto franchise will join the league in 2026, while another seismic shift arrives in college sports.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Valkyries, viewership and more
Expansion news, viewership records, charter flight details, GM survey results and new sponsorships. The action off the court was just as busy as the action on the court during the first week of the 2024 WNBA season.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Charter flights, expansion and a signature shoe
Better late than never! That’s the sentiment that applies to much of the news from around the WNBA over the past week: charter flights, expansion to Toronto and a signature shoe for A’ja Wilson.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: WNBA introduces rules changes
Less than 10 days until the 2024 WNBA season tips off! We’ve got news about new rules, extensions, a trade, travel and more.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Bird joins Force with the Storm
Former WNBA players are making moves, with Sue Bird becoming part of the Storm ownership group and the recently-retired Epiphanny Prince joining the Liberty front office. Teams also polish off preparations for the 2024 season.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Post-WNBA Draft buzz
We’re less than a month until the tip off of the 2024 WNBA season. Catch up on all the league buzz that has followed Monday night’s record-breaking draft.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Caldwell takes over Tennessee
A new coach on Rocky Top, an overflowing transfer portal, a comeback at the Nike Hoop Summit, history for the London Lions and more news from across women’s basketball.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Strong x UConn
Sarah Strong is going to UConn, Seimone Augustus is going to the Hall of Fame and more of what’s going on across women’s basketball.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: WaPo publishes anticipated Mulkey profile
In a week full of women’s basketball news, LSU head coach Kim Mulkey and the Lady Tigers have been at the center. Catch up on all the other encouraging and discouraging women’s hoops news.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Team USA vs. Team WNBA at ASG
Catch up on news about the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game, Team USA’s Olympic path, the WNBL Grand Final and more.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: 2024 EuroCup Women Finals are set
We’ve got two first-time contenders in the EuroCup Women Finals, a WNBA trade, a NCAAW college all-star game and more news from around women’s basketball.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Optical tracking is coming to the WNBA
Catch up on all the WNBA news from the past week, from optical tracking to a sold-out draft to another preseason game in Canada.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: AU Pro Hoops is almost here
Season 3 of Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball begins next week. Get ready for the AU excitement, while also catching up on Hall of Fame and NIL news.