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Denise Long Rife (born Denise Long; 1951) is an American former basketball player.She was the first woman drafted by an NBA team when San Francisco Warriors owner Franklin Mieuli picked her in the 13th round in the 1969 NBA draft but the selection was voided.
The Golden State Valkyries are an American professional basketball team based in San Francisco. The team will compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Western Conference; it is scheduled to begin play in 2025. The team will play its home games at Chase Center in San Francisco, while being headquartered in ...
Currently at 12 teams, the league will expand to 13 in 2025 with a team being added in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2023, the WNBA had its most-watched regular season in 21 years, and the season ...
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)'s draft for the 2024 season, following the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, was held on April 15, 2024, the 29th draft in WNBA history. The draft took place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, and allowed fans to be in attendance for the first time since ...
The WNBA last held an expansion draft in 2008 for the Atlanta Dream, which until the Golden State Valkyries, had been the league's most recent addition. Two years prior, in 2006, the WNBA held an ...
Stanford's Cameron Brink, left, poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being selected second overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in the first round of the WNBA Draft on Monday in New York.
Brink is the daughter of Greg Brink and Michelle Bain-Brink. Her family are close friends with the family of National Basketball Association (NBA) player Stephen Curry, whose mother, Sonya, is Brink's godmother. Her mother was roommates with Sonya at Virginia Tech, where her father played on the basketball team. Brink has an older brother, Cy. [51]
The WNBA is often unforgiving for rookies as rosters are not only shorter than their 15-player NBA counterparts, but WNBA teams don’t have two-way contracts or a developmental league. Read more ...