{"id":307415,"date":"2025-11-26T04:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307415\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:56:15","slug":"project-b-adds-sophie-cunningham-to-growing-roster-of-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307415\/","title":{"rendered":"Project B adds Sophie Cunningham to growing roster of talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project B, the planned international women\u2019s basketball league scheduled to begin competition next year, has added a significant new name: the Indiana Fever\u2019s Sophie Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p>A former Missouri standout, Cunningham spent the first six years of her career in Phoenix. A trade to Indiana united her with Caitlin Clark, and Cunningham immediately drew attention for her willingness to defend Clark. Cunningham joins WNBA All-Stars Nneka Ogwumike, Kelsey Mitchell, Jonquel Jones, Alyssa Thomas and Jewell Loyd, among others, who have committed to play for Project B.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Designed as<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/article\/project-bs-ambitious-plans-to-reshape-womens-basketball--and-mens-too-154515719.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:a global sports enterprise;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> a global sports enterprise<\/a>, with an array of international investors, Project B is planning for a late 2026 start to its women\u2019s basketball league. Founded by former Facebook and Skype executives, Project B\u2019s strategy is to apply tech-style disruption and social media distribution to the world of sports, starting with women\u2019s basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Project B intends to create a worldwide Formula 1-style series of traveling tournaments, pitting six teams of 11 players apiece against one another over the course of seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the midst of labor negotiations while enjoying a wave of popularity led in large part by Clark, the WNBA is a ripe target for disruption. Project B would play during the WNBA\u2019s offseason, but has already pledged to pay significantly higher salaries than the WNBA, while offering equity stakes to players joining early.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham\u2019s presence could be the key to unlocking a significant opportunity for Project B: the addition of Clark to its roster. Clark\u2019s domestic popularity could buttress the endeavor as it makes a play to establish itself on the international stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Project B, the planned international women\u2019s basketball league scheduled to begin competition next year, has added a significant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4652,49,735,48,2803,137564,16666,12200,4650,69910,4653,10879,82,630,92815],"class_list":["post-307415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-indiana-fever","tag-international-womens-basketball-league","tag-jewell-loyd","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-michael-hickey","tag-nneka-ogwumike","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-basketball-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307415","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=307415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}