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Stats current as September 19, 2024. Most points, rookie season; 769 - Caitlin Clark, Indiana 2024; 744 – Seimone Augustus, Minnesota 2006 [35] 682 – A'ja Wilson, Las Vegas 2018; Highest average points per game, rookie season; 22.2* – Cynthia Cooper, Houston 1997 (*inaugural WNBA season) [35] 21.9 – Seimone Augustus, Minnesota 2006
NBC showed games from 1997 to 2002 as part of their NBA on NBC coverage before the league transferred the rights to ABC/ESPN. In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN, the first agreement to pay television rights fees to a women's professional league. The new television deal runs from 2009 to 2016.
Stats at Basketball Reference McCowan with Indiana Fever in 2019 Teaira McCowan (born September 28, 1996; first name pronounced / t iː ˈ ɛər ə / tee- AIR -ə [ 1 ] ) is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Çukurova Basketbol of the Turkish Super League .
Stephanie Joanne White (formerly Stephanie White-McCarty; born June 20, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player and the head coach of the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. [1] She was previously head coach of the WNBA Connecticut Sun in the 2023 and 2024 seasons and Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team from 2016 to 2021. [2]
Bird greets the ESPN broadcast team after a WNBA Playoffs game between the New York Liberty and the Atlanta Dream in 2024. Bird publicly came out as a lesbian on July 20, 2017, revealing that she had been dating soccer player Megan Rapinoe for several months after the two met at the 2016 Rio Olympics . [ 116 ]
In 2020, she became the first Black woman and the first WNBA player to host a national radio show for ESPN. She was one of the first and youngest commentators ever to be named an NBA analyst for the network covering the NBA, WNBA, and variety of sports, while simultaneously playing in the WNBA.
Today, Lobo is a reporter and color analyst for ESPN with a focus on women's college basketball and WNBA games. Lobo faced criticism for her commentary during an April 1, 2024, NCAA women's basketball Elite Eight game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and LSU Tigers in Albany, New York , after she remarked during an exchange with ESPN announcer Ryan ...
This was the highest rated WNBA broadcast on ESPN since a 1999 Western Conference Finals game between the Houston Comets and Los Angeles Sparks received 1,052,000 viewers and a 1.1 household rating. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The average viewership for the 4 finals games in 2012 was 477,000.