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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.
WNBA Finals. The WNBA Finals are the championship series of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the conclusion of the league's postseason each fall. The series was named the WNBA Championship until 2002. Since 2016, Verizon is the official sponsor. The series is played between the winners of the playoff semifinals.
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 ...
Most points in first career game (WNBA debut) 34 – Candace Parker, Los Angeles at Phoenix, May 17, 2008 [38] 27 – Napheesa Collier, Minnesota vs. Chicago, May 25, 2019; 25 – Cynthia Cooper, Houston at Cleveland, June 21, 1997 (inaugural WNBA season) Most 3-point field goals made by rookie, game
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 ...
The 2021 WNBA season was the 25th season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Seattle Storm were the defending champions. In the playoffs, the Chicago Sky won in four games over the Phoenix Mercury. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, teams played a 32-game season (rather than the 36 games agreed to in the original 2020 season ...
The 2020 WNBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the WNBA's 2020 season being played in Bradenton, Florida at the IMG Academy, known for the season as the "wubble." [1] The Seattle Storm defeated the Las Vegas Aces three games to zero in the finals to claim the franchise's fourth WNBA title.