{"id":210108,"date":"2025-10-13T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:24:08","slug":"wnba-could-play-games-in-china-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210108\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA could play games in China in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PTVSKWPPAHMJXUNH2CHTG25TXE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Friday said that the WNBA \u201ccould be next to play games in China\u201d following the NBA\u2019s recent return last week. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Friday said that the WNBA \u201ccould be next to play games in China\u201d following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/12\/nbas-long-awaited-china-return-draws-large-crowd\/?issueId=PDYMWO7NHBE4FNRETYFHOWX2CQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/12\/nbas-long-awaited-china-return-draws-large-crowd\/?issueId=PDYMWO7NHBE4FNRETYFHOWX2CQ\">the NBA\u2019s recent return last week<\/a>, according to Jessica Golden of CNBC.com. Silver spoke \u201ccourtside\u201d from the first of two NBA games in Macao and said, \u201cWe have to get through a new collective bargaining agreement with our players. But once we do, there\u2019s so much interest in women\u2019s basketball here, I think we\u2019d love to bring a WNBA game to Macao or to mainland China.\u201d The commissioner added that \u201chis focus now is growing talent in the country.\u201d Sixteen Chinese players have played in the NBA and WNBA, according to the league (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/10\/10\/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-wnba-games-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/10\/10\/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-wnba-games-china.html\">CNBC.com, 10\/10<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Friday said that the WNBA \u201ccould be next to play games in China\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,77,459,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-210108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}