Breanna Stewart & Napheesa Collier want Michelle Obama & Denzel Washington to attend Unrivaled games. Posted: January 22, 2025 | Last updated: January 22, 2025
The new winter pro league co-founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart averaged 313,000 viewers in its opening game.
Stewart has led the Liberty in scoring in each of her two seasons in Brooklyn. In 2024, she averaged 20.4 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.7 steals and 1.3 blocks per game while helping deliver New York its first professional basketball title in 51 years.
With the core designation, New York will officially take the biggest free agent off the market as the Liberty now have exclusive negotiating rights with Stewart.
Breanna Stewart reflected on Unrivaled's opening night on Friday by sharing a bunch of images from the event on Instagram.
Kate Martin and the Laces Basketball Club crossed swords against the Breanna Stewart-led Mist Basketball Club on Monday at the MediaPro Center in Miami.
UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma talked about Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier creating Unrivaled league that debuts Friday.
Unrivaled’s debut was a MOVIE. Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier deserve so much praise for the league they’ve just created. Unrivaled is everything you could hope for and more. It met the hype. It met the expectations. And then it over-delivered.
Unrivaled is setting a new standard for women’s basketball before one game has been played in the upstart league.
WNBA season will already feature a new look from last year with the Golden State Valkyries playing their inaugural season and the schedule being expanded to a new regular-season high of 44 games per team.
On the eve of its debut, Unrivaled held a security meeting with its players about their safety. In the past few months, women’s basketball players in college and the WNBA have had to deal with three separate cyber-stalking cases that have gone public.
Brittney Griner is testing free agency for the first time in her career after 11 seasons with the Phoenix Mercury.