{"id":625527,"date":"2026-04-24T12:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:33:21","slug":"storms-dominique-malonga-receives-clearance-to-play-in-2026-wnba-season-report-says-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625527\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm\u2019s Dominique Malonga receives clearance to play in 2026 WNBA season, report says | Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Storm second-year player Dominique Malonga, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2025 draft, received her letter of clearance from FIBA on Wednesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/48566703\/dominique-malonga-gets-letter-clearance-fiba-play-seattle-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Alexa Philippou<\/a>, making her eligible to play in the WBNA season.<\/p>\n<p>Malonga, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/storm\/storm-get-first-look-at-dominique-malonga-as-wnba-readies-for-dunks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a French phenom who can dunk,<\/a> has been in a contract dispute with Turkish powerhouse Fenerbah\u00e7e over whether the club would release her to play in the WBNA. The 20-year-old initially signed a three-year contract with the club in the summer of 2025, but it was later announced that Malonga had &#8220;unilaterally terminated&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm&#8217;s season is set to open May 8 against the Golden State Valkyries at Climate Pledge Arena.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Storm second-year player Dominique Malonga, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2025 draft, received her letter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,1440,630],"class_list":["post-625527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-storm","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625527","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=625527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}