Unrivaled, the new 3×3 winter basketball league co-founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier, is expanding before ever playing its first game.
As a sign of its significant interest among current WNBA players and its financial standing, the league is growing its player participant pool to 36 players, up from 30, which was its previously announced cap. There will still be six teams, with six players now participating on each.
“We’re able to do this because we outperformed our financial projections,” Collier said in a video Thursday. “So now we get to do something that we wanted to do in the future which is give more people spots in Unrivaled.”
A special announcement from our co-founder 🚨
We’re expanding to 36✅ pic.twitter.com/HaAKUn30gA
— Unrivaled Basketball (@Unrivaledwbb) October 31, 2024
That the league, slated to begin play in Jan. 2025, is already growing in size is a further reflection of the legitimate foothold it is trying to carve out in the women’s basketball marketplace. In mid-October, the league announced it had reached a multi-year deal with TNT Sports, and will have its games broadcast on TNT, TruTV and streamed on Max.
Games will air on TNT on Monday and Friday nights, as well as Saturday night on TruTV. The deal will allow…
