{"id":593997,"date":"2026-04-10T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:15:07","slug":"wnba-formally-approves-expansion-in-detroit-play-set-to-begin-in-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593997\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA formally approves expansion in Detroit, play set to begin in 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (WXYZ) \u2014 It is officially game on for the WNBA: the league announced Thursday that Detroit has been approved for an expansion team by the board of governors.<\/p>\n<p>The team has yet to be named but is slated to tip off at Little Caesars Arena in 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">Previous report: Detroit&#8217;s riverfront could get new WNBA facility on former Uniroyal tire site<\/p>\n<p>Detroit&#8217;s riverfront could get new WNBA facility on former Uniroyal tire site<\/p>\n<p>Expansions were also approved for Cleveland to start in 2028 and Philadelphia in 2030. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly two decades since the Detroit Shock departed.<\/p>\n<p>League leaders say the surge in popularity made this the perfect time to bring the pro game back to Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (WXYZ) \u2014 It is officially game on for the WNBA: the league announced Thursday that Detroit has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[51687,49,48,51688,82,630,51689],"class_list":["post-593997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-7-action-news-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-sports","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wxyz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593997","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=593997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}