{"id":848071,"date":"2026-08-08T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:34:09","slug":"former-nba-players-declare-for-wnba-draft-amid-trans-athlete-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848071\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA players declare for WNBA draft amid trans athlete debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce Whire announce their intentions to join the 2027 WNBA Draft. Barstool Sports\u2019 Jack Mac discusses the gender eligibility rules on \u2018Fox &amp; Friends Weekend.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Former NBA players Enes Freedom and Royce White declare for the 2027 WNBA draft to challenge the league&#8217;s gender eligibility rules. Barstool Sports writer Jack Mack joins to analyze the potential impact of their declarations on women&#8217;s sports policies. The former first-round picks challenge the league to clearly define its requirements for female athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce Whire announce their intentions to join the 2027 WNBA Draft.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,348083,39630,590,117129,85,446],"class_list":["post-848071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-nba","tag-news-videos","tag-sports","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}