Unrivaled\u00a0is heading back on the road. This time to play a set of playoff games at Barclays Center in\u00a0Brooklyn\u00a0following last month’s\u00a0successful trip\u00a0to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The three-on-three league co-owned by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier announced Friday that its semifinal round will be played at the home arena of the WNBA’s New York Liberty and NBA’s\u00a0Brooklyn\u00a0Nets next month, marking the second time this season the league has played away from its Miami base.<\/p>\n
Unrivaled’s post-season will include the top six of the league’s eight teams. The first round featuring matchups between the third through sixth seeds will take place at Sephora Arena \u2014 the league’s home arena \u2014 in Medley, Florida, on Feb 28. The final four teams will then head to\u00a0Brooklyn\u00a0for a pair of semifinal games on March 2 before the league returns to Florida for the final on March 4.<\/p>\n
Unrivaled\u00a0hit the road for the first time in January, breaking free of its Florida bubble to expand its reach and stage two games at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The young league made history, drawing a professional women\u2019s basketball regular-season record crowd of\u00a021,490\u00a0that included \u201cGood Morning America\u201d host Robin Roberts, 76ers guard Kyle Lowry, and comedians Leslie Jones and Wanda Sykes.<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia tour stop represented a proving ground on whether taking the product on the road can lead to new revenue and expand the league\u2019s fan base, while recalibrating a business model that was originally rooted in centralization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrivaled\u00a0is heading back on the road. This time to play a set of playoff games at Barclays Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-473625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473625","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=473625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}