This Week in Women's Basketball
Swish Appeal's weekly news roundup.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Sue-S-A
For the first time, the USA Basketball Women’s National Team will have a managing director—and it’s five-time Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird. Here’s more on what Bird’s new role entails.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: All the best to EDD!
This week’s women’s basketball news belonged to the game’s greats, with Elena Delle Donne announcing her retirement and Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Maya Moore earning Hall of Fame selections.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: CBA strategy, TV numbers and more Bueckers buzz
News and rumors about the business of women’s basketball is buzzing, with CBA considerations, television stats for the WNBA and Unrivaled and more scuttlebutt about Paige Bueckers’ pro path.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: 2025 WNBA Draft details
Fans will once again be able to attend the WNBA draft, with the 2025 edition to be held at The Shed in New York City on April 14.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: WNBA superstars grab headlines
A’ja Wilson was honored as one of TIME’s Women of the Year, Napheesa Collier shared her Unrivaled winnings with staff and hires for the Tempo, Liberty and Sun headline the recent women’s hoops news.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: A’One incoming
A’ja Wilson’s much-anticipated signature shoe, the Nike A’One, drops in May 2025. Get the details about A’ja’s sneaker, in addition to more news from around the sport.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: A brewing WNBA expansion bid battle?
Big news is flying around the women’s basketball world, headlined by multiple WNBA expansion bids. Big names, like Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, also made some big moves.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: AU is on the horizon
Ahead of the league’s fourth season, Athletes Unlimited has finalized its roster and rules. In the WNBA, the Indiana Fever announce a forthcoming new facility, while more teams fill out their coaching staffs.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Everything is Unrivaled
As Unrivaled prepares to tip off on Friday, Jan. 17, the league has continued to roll out announcements. In WNBA news, both the Atlanta Dream and Connecticut Sun added assistant coaches.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: The countdown is on for Unrivaled
The official countdown is on for Unrivaled, with the soon-to-launch 3x3 professional league making more news ahead of the start of it’s inaugural season.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: A heck of a HOF class!
A deep group of women’s basketball nominees for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025, headlined by Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles, highlights this week’s women’s hoops news.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: First step to new CBA
The WNBA and WNBPA shared the first dollop of news about forthcoming CBA negotiations, while Unrivaled continued to entice with a drip, drip, drip of announcements.
The Week in Women’s Basketball: A WNBA prize money scam?
The release of the 2025 WNBA schedule raised more questions than answers, including an inquiry into what happened with the additional prize pool money promised by the league in the 2020 CBA.
This Week in Women’s Basketball: Lynx, Fever add assistant coaches
The WNBA’s offseason reshuffling extends up and down coaching staffs, with the Minnesota Lynx and Indiana Fever both making announcements about assistant coach additions.
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.