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The Latest Breaking News from WNBA

FSG partner Linda Pizzuti Henry joins forces with Nike to strike £55m deal

Linda Pizzuti Henry, wife of Liverpool owner John Henry, is part of a $75m investment deal in sport

Liverpool Echo

Nike’s major WNBA investment is just what women’s basketball needed

The largest capital investment for a women's sports league values the WNBA at $1 billion.

Input

The Winners and Losers of 2022 WNBA Free Agency

The Storm brought back their Big Three. But Indiana … what are you doing?

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Liberty sign ex-Sky center Stefanie Dolson following Olympic gold medal and WNBA championship

NEW YORK — Stefanie Dolson is coming home.

Tribune News Service

WNBA getting $75 million cash injection

NEW YORK — The WNBA is indeed in thrive mode.

Tribune News Service

Liberty Sign All-Star Center, Olympic Gold Medalist Stefanie Dolson

She was the only player in the league to win both a gold medal and a WNBA title last season.

Sports Illustrated

Browns owners Dee Haslam and Whitney Johnson invest in WNBA

Dee Haslam and Whitney Haslam Johnson are a part of the biggest investment in "women's sports property" history:

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For Trailblazer Jada Williams, the Future Is Now. Expect Others to Follow.

High school athletes were historically not allowed to profit off their NIL—and most still can’t. But a 16-year-old star is among the first to change that.

Sports Illustrated

Sky deal Diamond DeShields to Phoenix in a three-team trade

The exact terms of DeShields’ contract were not disclosed but according to a league source, it’s a two-year deal.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sarah Valenzuela: Becky Hammon’s $1 million salary shows how far WNBA still has to go in paying its players

NEW YORK — When Las Vegas Aces (and Raiders) owner Mark Davis proudly announced that new head coach Becky Hammon would be the first WNBA coach to earn an estimated $1 million salary — for a reported five years — there was reason to celebrate.

Tribune News Service

Lauren Jackson's shock basketball comeback

Basketball Hall of Fame member and three-time WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson will make a comeback at the age of 40 with the NBL1's Albury-Wodonga Bandits.

AAP

Report: Jewell Loyd Returning to Storm on a Two-Year Deal

She made All-WNBA first-team last season and is looking to replicate that success this year.

Sports Illustrated

Report: Breanna Stewart to Re-Sign With Storm on One-Year Supermax Deal

The two-time WNBA Finals MVP will remain with the team that drafted her after drawing interest from every other team in the league.

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Kahleah Copper will sign multiyear deal with the Sky

The exact terms of Copper’s deal were not disclosed but a league source told the Sun-Times pending any last-minute changes it will be a two-year deal.

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Stefanie Dolson agrees to terms on multiyear deal with New York Liberty

A two-time WNBA All-Star and native of New York, Dolson joined the Sky in 2017 in a trade that sent Elena Delle Donne to the Washington Mystics for Dolson and Kahleah Copper. In five seasons with the Sky, Dolson averaged 10 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 133 games.

Chicago Sun-Times

Recent WNBA coaching hires set a standard for league’s future

Including the Dream’s hire of Tanisha Wright in October, eight of the WNBA’s 12 head-coaching positions are filled by women. Six are former players in the league.

Tribune News Service

Five-time WNBA All-Star Angel McCoughtry headed for Lynx in free agency

MINNEAPOLIS — With Napheesa Collier expected to miss most, if not all, of the 2022 season, the Lynx have gone a long ways towards filling that hole in their lineup.

USA Today Sports Media Group

WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury hires high school coach to lead franchise

One of California's best girls high school basketball coaches is making the jump to the professional ranks.

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Report: Aces Finalizing Deal to Return Star Forward A’ja Wilson

The 2020 WNBA MVP is currently a restricted free agent with Las Vegas.

Sports Illustrated

Athletes Unlimited Is Bringing Women Athletes—and Couples—Together

AU's new women’s pro basketball league tips off Jan. 26. For Natasha Cloud, it allows her to be closer to wife Aleshia Ocasio, who’s played in AU’s softball league.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ann Wauters to join Sky coaching staff as an assistant

Wauters was drafted with the first overall pick in the 2000 WNBA draft by the Cleveland Rockers at 19.

Sports Illustrated

Arielle Chambers Is Asking Black Athletes to Tell Their Real Stories

The 30-year-old media personality and journalist wasn’t seeing the authentic stories of Black women and Black queer women portrayed—so she decided to change that.

Sports Illustrated

Report: Sun Finalizing Multi-Year Deal With 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones

Jones was named MVP in 2021 after leading the Sun to the WNBA's best record.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dana Evans is taking care of business, on and off the court

Evans is currently playing overseas in Hungary. She suffered a partial tear in her abdomen and is expected to be back on the court in the next couple of weeks.

Tribune News Service

Storm star Breanna Stewart reportedly met with Liberty last week. Could she actually leave Seattle?

SEATTLE — Remember when Breanna Stewart talked with a fair amount of certainty about returning to the Storm next season?

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