It was a week full of (mostly) positive women’s hoops news:
Expansion is official
The WNBA’s long-awaited expansion era finally has dawned…and it’s golden!
As first was reported in late September, the ownership group of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors will be bringing a WNBA expansion team to the Bay Area, with the yet-to-be-named franchise to begin play in the 2025 season. The team will play in the Chase Center, the home of the Warriors.
Joe Lacob, the controlling owner of both teams, wasted no time announcing his “light years”-like ambitions for the team, telling ESPN, “We’re coming in here, number one, to win. Number two, we want to see this league and women’s basketball grow, and we hope to be a big part of it.”
An owner of the ABL’s San Jose Lasers in the late 1990s, Lacob also asserted his commitment to women’s sports, saying, “Both my boys and my girls played basketball. And I was very much into Stanford basketball, men’s and women’s. So that was one of the reasons I did the ABL [and the Lasers]…So this is a big full-circle thing for me.”
At Thursday’s announcement at the Chase Center, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert stated, “We are thrilled about expanding to the Bay Area and bringing the WNBA to a region with passionate…
