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The Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi Courts in their new practice facility at Player 15 Group building were unveiled on July 19.

Cheryl Reeve will begin her third Olympic women's basketball journey when Team USA plays Japan in group play Monday in Paris. But everything will be new. This time Reeve — an assistant to Geno Auriemma in Rio in 2016 and to Dawn Staley in Tokyo in 2021 — will be the head coach. As Reeve wryly noted, no more Mr. Nice Guy. Relationships with players are different as an assistant. You can pal ...

Angel Reese‘s supporters for her campaign as the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year are growing. “House of Highlights” recently asked some of the NBA players who they would choose as the league’s ROY between the Sky‘s Reese and Fever’s Caitlin Clark. Jaylen Brown and Immanuel Quickley picked the Sky rookie. MORE: Why Angel Reese should win WNBA Rookie of the...

CHICAGO — The Chicago Sky will break ground this fall on a purpose-built training center, delivering on team ownership’s promise to provide exclusive player facilities. The $38 million facility will be built in partnership with the Village of Bedford Park and located next to the Wintrust Sports Complex just south of Midway Airport. The Sky expect construction to be completed by December 2025 ...

The Sky's lack of a team-owned practice facility has held the franchise back in recent years, especially in free agency. That won't be an issue in the future.

Taurasi, who has a case as the greatest female player of all time, will become the first USA Basketball star to appear in six Olympics and any medal would make her the most decorated team-sport athlete in Olympic history.

The Chicago Sky will break ground this fall on a purpose-built training center, delivering on team ownership’s promise to provide exclusive player facilities. The $38 million facility will be built in partnership with the Village of Bedford Park and located next to the Wintrust Sports Complex just south of Midway Airport. The Sky expect construction to be completed by December 2025 and the ...

The Paris Olympics are almost officially here — even though some competitions have started already — and among the many stars competing for the U.S. over the next c

This year's United States women's national basketball team is loaded with some of the best basketball players on the planet, including A'ja Wilson, Sabrina Ionescu, Kelsey Plum and Kahleah Copper. However, there are some fantastic WNBA players who aren't on Team USA or…

Marquette's new player development coach Chaz Franklin believes sophomore Skylar Forbes can make the WNBA. Franklin had the same position with the Chicago Sky.

Indiana Fever have sold out nearly every away game and rank first in overall attendance, while 14 of 16 top-watched games on TV have been Fever games.

What WNBA and Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner has said about the national anthem and competing for Team USA ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Unrivaled 3-on-3 pro women's basketball league begins in January 2025 in Miami.

The NBA and WNBA have entered into an agreement with NBCUniversal on a robust, new partnership. Learn more about the details here.

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have the WNBA's top-two selling jerseys during their rookie seasons. Here's what you need to know:

Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese has joined Unrivaled, the new player-founded, 3-on-3 league led by Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier. Reese announced the news in a post with Unrivaled on social media under the words “305 Barbie.” The league tips off in Miami in January 2025. Reese, known as “Bayou Barbie” when playing for LSU, …

Reese is the 10th player who will take part in the offseason league.

The 12 players representing the United States aren’t the only WNBA players who are hooping in the Paris Olympics.

Mercury guard Kahleah Copper is having a strong year in her first season in Phoenix. The 2024 WNBA All-Stars agree.

The WNBA, long one of the great activist leagues in American sports history, could be a factor in the upcoming presidential race.

History has shown WNBA rookies use Olympic downtime to focus on rest, recovery and honing strengths. In most cases, they return more productive.

The top dozen watched WNBA games in 2024 involve the Indiana Fever, who lead the league in attendance.

The WNBA All-Star Game drew a record number of viewers with 3.44 million people watching the contest in Phoenix on Saturday night. The game, which saw the WNBA All-Stars beat the U.S. Olympic team 117-109, easily topped the 1.44 million that viewed the 2003 contest. It was the third most viewed WNBA event ever and the largest audience for the league since its first two nationally televised games in 1997.

Yahoo Sports broke down the cases for and against Clark and Reese, and what each can do to strengthen their candidacies.

It has only taken half of her first season, but Caitlin Clark is already being called "the real deal" by CBS Sports.

The WNBA’s season-long surge in popularity shows no sign of abating, as the 2024 All-Star Game left the previous ratings record in the dust. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, Sunday night’s exhibition, which pitted rookie stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese against the U.S. women’s national team, averaged 3.44 million viewers on ABC, up 139% …

The star-studded event in Phoenix that featured the U.S. Olympic team facing Caitlin Clark and 11 of the best WNBA players drew a wide audience.

With the WNBA's heightened popularity, the U.S. women are seeking their record eighth consecutive gold medal at the Paris Olympics this summer.

With the WNBA on hiatus for the next three weeks during the Paris Olympics, Connecticut Sun coach Stephanie White’s top priority is giving herself — and her team — a badly-needed break. The team won’t be on the court in Uncasville at all for the next week, which White is spending with her four sons on vacation for their first trip to Europe, joking that it will also likely be their only one. ...

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert met with reporters ahead of Saturday's All-Star game in Phoenix to discuss the league's growth and future path

The turnaround is in action.

Yahoo Sports basketball analyst Isis "Ice" Young and women basketball writer Cassandra Negley discuss what Team USA’s loss to Team WNBA could mean for USA as they head to Paris for the 2024 Olympics.

Who takes home the hardware?

WNBA commissioner Cathy Englebert said Team USA has potential to promote league's brand overseas during Olympics.

WNBA Rookie of the Month: July

WNBA Players of the Month: July

The Erie native, who is leading the WNBA in 3-pointers made this season, made her first all-star appearance in a Minnesota Lynx jersey. The WNBA pro is in her 11th season.

Basketball Without Borders took over the Phoenix Suns' training facility this weekend during the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game.

Angel Reese said Saturday night's game was the first of many times she and Caitlin Clark will join forces, whether it's the All-Star Game or Olympics.

Caitlin Clark played beautiful team basketball, the kind Cheryl Miller certainly appreciated.

Cheryl Miller and Arike Ogunbowale both won national titles in college. They both helped the WNBA All-Stars defeat Team USA.

Former Notre Dame star Arike Ogunbowale won the WNBA All-Star Game MVP with a record 34 points in a win against the U.S. Olympic team

Cheryl Miller had a lot of fun on a night she will remember.

Could you have imagined that women's basketball would be the biggest story in professional sports?

When the final buzzer sounded on Team USA’s defeat in the 2024 WNBA All-Star game, former UConn superstar Breanna Stewart felt an immediate sense of déjà vu. The three-time Olympian was taken back to three years ago, to a nearly-identical loss against another team of WNBA stars eager to knock Team USA off its pedestal as it prepared for the Tokyo Games. “I think that everyone knows this is not ...

Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale set a new WNBA All-Star game record of 34 points while Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese set rookie records as they helped lead Team WNBA to a 117-109 win over Team USA on Saturday in Phoenix.

The Connecticut Sun had three players in Saturday's WNBA All-Star Game. Here's how Alyssa Thomas, DeWanna Bonner and Brionna Jones fared in the contest.

New York Liberty has helped team to top of league standings as Olympic break arrives

In the latest example of the Caitlin Clark effect and the meteoric rise in popularity for the WNBA, the league secured a new record TV deal.

For a second Olympic cycle, Arike Ogunbowale was not among those selected to play, and both times she's been an all-star MVP in toppling Team USA.