{"id":594740,"date":"2026-04-10T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:23:08","slug":"philadelphias-wnba-expansion-team-officially-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594740\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s WNBA expansion team officially approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia is one step closer to getting a WNBA team.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA and NBA Board of Governors officially approved the league&#8217;s expansion into Philadelphia on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was first announced <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/wnba-team-coming-philadelphia-everything-know-expansion-announcement\/16892248\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:last June;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;last June&quot;}\" class=\"link \">last June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Harris Blitzer Sports &amp; Entertainment, the same company that owns the 76ers, will own and operate the WNBA team.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s basketball team doesn&#8217;t have a name yet.<\/p>\n<p>Play is expected to start in 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia is one step closer to getting a WNBA team. The WNBA and NBA Board of Governors officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[22388,49,48,22551,1518,82,630,87112],"class_list":["post-594740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-76ers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-expansion","tag-philadelphia","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594740","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=594740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}