I think when you look at 30 years ago, our idea was never to play to grow the league. It was really, we played the game because we appreciated the opportunity to play in our country. Most people don\u2019t know, but most American women, after graduating from college, we all played somewhere overseas. We lived overseas. We did that for maybe eight or nine months out of the year. And so, to have the WNBA, really was an opportunity that we all took very seriously. We hugged babies, we kissed babies, we signed autographs for everyone. We understood the assignment. We understood that it was about growing the community and getting back and being role models.<\/p>\n
Most people don\u2019t realize that most of these women have at least one degree, that we are not just amazing women on the court, but off the court as well. And I think the beautiful thing about this 30th anniversary is that I\u2019m happy for the women who get to reap those benefits, that the brands have realized the beauty and the benefits of these women and partnering with us because everybody\u2019s watching women\u2019s basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I think when you look at 30 years ago, our idea was never to play to grow the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-753397","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\/753397","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=753397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}