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The Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league based in the United States. It is composed of 12 teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from May to ...
In the current format of the WNBA playoffs, the top eight teams in the regular season, regardless of conference, participate in a single-elimination tournament system. The eight teams are then seeded by their regular season records, with the higher seeded team (or the team with the better record) in a series given homecourt advantage.
25 – Cynthia Cooper, Houston at Cleveland, June 21, 1997 (inaugural WNBA season) Most 3-point field goals made by rookie, game. 7 – Crystal Robinson, New York at Los Angeles, July 24, 1999. 7 – Caitlin Clark, Indiana at Washington, June 7, 2024 [39] Most 3-point field goals made in first career game (WNBA debut)
The New York Liberty, who play in the Commissioner's Cup title game Tuesday night, have won 11 of their last 12 games to secure the top spot in the standings with a 15-3 record. The Sun and the ...
The 2024 WNBA season is the 28th season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), a professional women's basketball league based in the United States.. The regular season runs from May 14 to September 19 with each of the 12 teams playing 40 games—four games against five teams from the same conference and two teams from the other conference, and three games against the remaining ...
The 2011 WNBA Finals was the first coached by two women. In 2014, the Chicago Sky became the first team to appear in the WNBA Finals with a sub-.500 record. In 2016, the Los Angeles Sparks won by one point despite a later announcement by the WNBA that officials missed an earlier shot-clock violation at 1:14, which should not have counted. [1]
That run was the longest active streak in the WNBA, according to ESPN. Ogunbowale made 8 of 22 shots from the floor for the Wings, including 4 of 9 from 3-point range. She was 9 for 9 at the free ...
List of WNBA seasons. A regular season game during the 2022 WNBA season between the Seattle Storm and Atlanta Dream in Seattle, Washington. The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional women's basketball league based in the United States with 12 teams as of 2024. [1] The league was founded in 1996 by the men's National ...