{"id":277416,"date":"2025-11-12T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277416\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:38:09","slug":"mercury-all-star-alyssa-thomas-joins-project-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277416\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury All-Star Alyssa Thomas joins Project B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> PHOENIX \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/phoenix_mercury\/17278\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> All-Star Alyssa Thomas has joined the new women\u2019s basketball league, rivaling the WNBA, Project B. <\/p>\n<p> According to the league, the All-Star has joined Project\u202fB as a player, partner and owner. She joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/players\/nneka_ogwumike\/911448\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nneka Ogwumike<\/a> as the first two WNBA players to sign with the new league, which is set to launch next year. <\/p>\n<p>Project\u202fB was created to compete with the WNBA, offering larger salaries and equity stakes to players. Thomas\u2019 decision to sign signals that the league is a serious counterpart to the established WNBA and could mark the beginning of significant change in the global women\u2019s basketball landscape.<\/p>\n<p>After an MVP-caliber season with the Mercury, including becoming an MVP finalist and leading the team to a WNBA Finals appearance, Thomas is looking to expand her opportunities. The Phoenix forward\u2019s commitment to the new league shows that it can offer more than what the WNBA may provide.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Thomas averaged 15.4 points, 8.8 rebounds and 9.2 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>With new opportunities emerging that aim to provide what WNBA players have long strived for, more players may sign with them, even though they are rival leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Phoenix Mercury All-Star Alyssa Thomas has joined the new women\u2019s basketball league, rivaling the WNBA, Project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-277416","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-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277416","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=277416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}