{"id":235984,"date":"2025-10-24T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235984\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:38:09","slug":"valkyries-jess-smith-says-wnba-growth-safe-despite-lockout-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235984\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyries\u2019 Jess Smith Says WNBA Growth Safe Despite Lockout Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Golden State Valkyries President Jess Smith said WNBA\u2019s surging growth is showing no signs of slowing, even as the league faces a potential lockout at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The league\u2019s sellout crowds, rising television ratings and sponsorship and media deals mark one of the most powerful growth stories in sports, said Smith in an interview on the sidelines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscnextlevelsports.usc.edu\/\" title=\"Link to conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">USC Next Level Sports conference<\/a> in Los Angeles on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Valkyries President Jess Smith said WNBA\u2019s surging growth is showing no signs of slowing, even as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[160,49,48,57,569,133,14211,1522,7607,17412,111614,82,630,1297],"class_list":{"0":"post-235984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cities","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-industries","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-media","17":"tag-megacity","18":"tag-national-basketball-players","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-wnba","21":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235984","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=235984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}