{"id":277932,"date":"2025-11-12T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277932\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:35:17","slug":"wnba-new-project-b-league-signs-alyssa-thomas-as-second-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277932\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA: New Project B league signs Alyssa Thomas as second star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alyssa Thomas is the second WNBA star to officially sign on with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swishappeal.com\/unrivaled\/65909\/wnba-lockout-cba-negotiations-tensions-new-pro-wbb-league-project-b-international-salaries-equity-unrivaled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project B<\/a>, the six-team international 5&#215;5 women\u2019s basketball league expected to launch in November 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The perennial MVP candidate who recently led the Phoenix Mercury to the 2025 WNBA Finals broke the news on social media, announcing that she \u201cis looking forward to joining Project B.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That Project B now claims Thomas and Nneka Ogwumike as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swishappeal.com\/wnba\/67243\/project-b-women-pro-basketball-international-league-5x5-nneka-ogwumike-wnbpa-salaries-equity-saudi-arabia-alana-beard-wnba-players-contracts-cba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the league\u2019s first signings<\/a>\u2014two players that have accumulated combined resumes that include a WNBA MVP, WNBA championship, multiple WNBA Finals appearances, 12 All-WNBA selections, 16 WNBA All-Star nods and 14 WNBA All-Defense honors\u2014signals its legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thomas\u2019 signing also suggests that she has elected to participate in Project B during the 2026-27 WNBA offseason, rather than Unrivaled. While Project B will not conflict with the WNBA calendar, its series of seven two-week tournaments, which will be held in major cities across Europe, Asia and the Americas, will overlap with the 3&#215;3 league co-founded Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thomas\u2019 decision to abandon Unrivaled for this new opportunity would seem to substantiate reporting that Project B\u2019s compensation\u2014with annual salaries estimated around $2 million plus an equity stake in the league\u2014exceeds that of Unrivaled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Alyssa is the kind of player and person you build around. Her leadership, competitiveness and professionalism elevate everyone around her. As one of the most respected players in the world, she represents the new era of player partnership and global competition that Project B stands for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alyssa Thomas is the second WNBA star to officially sign on with Project B, the six-team international 5&#215;5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630,118825],"class_list":{"0":"post-277932","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","12":"tag-wnba-players-overseas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277932","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=277932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}