I’m thrilled to announce WNBA Defined, a brand new weekly column that can transcend the headlines, and dive into a special matter associated to the league every week. The WNBA is recent off of a season of huge progress, elite basketball, and unimaginable competitors — and as extra sources are invested in its protection, SB Nation is happy to launch a deep dive, explainer-style weekly column as part of Breakaway, our new vertical that includes protection of ladies’s sports activities from throughout its virtually 200 communities.
Are you interested in the method for WNBA referees to get employed — and the way that compares to different skilled sports activities leagues? We’ll have an exploration of that this offseason.
Wish to be taught extra about why — lengthy earlier than this present recognition growth — the league was promoting out video games in its early years, and the place issues went awry? We’ll be talking with the gamers and coaches from the league’s early days to diagnose what went unsuitable within the early 2000s, and the way quite a lot of stakeholders can guarantee the identical drop-off doesn’t happen.
Preserve listening to folks say that the NBA single-handedly funds the WNBA? We’ll break down the reality — and misconceptions — behind that declare.
And people are only a few of the numerous matters we’re aiming to deal with. As a result of with so many new eyes on the WNBA, the aim is for this weekly sequence to dive into the information and supply further context on the large tales of the day, or massive questions dealing with the league.
We’ll converse with the specialists who’ve been following, masking, enjoying, and dealing within the W over these previous 27 years, all with the unwavering intention to assist inform our viewers about all issues WNBA.
We’ll additionally share tales in regards to the gamers who’ve made this league what it’s, each previous and current — and dive into the following technology of ladies’s basketball gamers who will proceed to remodel this league.
Have a WNBA-related query you’d prefer to see explored? Shoot over an electronic mail to noa.dalzell@voxmedia.com.
And whilst you’re right here, try only a few of the tales about quite a lot of WNBA gamers from this previous season — from three-time MVP A’ja Wilson to the rookies that largely watched from the sidelines this time round:
