{"id":78959,"date":"2025-08-18T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78959\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:06:07","slug":"wnbas-vancouver-game-highlights-sports-growth-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78959\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA\u2019s Vancouver game highlights sport\u2019s growth in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">After the Dream-Storm game drew a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/17\/dream-storm-draws-sellout-crowd-in-vancouver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/17\/dream-storm-draws-sellout-crowd-in-vancouver\/\">sellout crowd to Rogers Arena<\/a> on Friday, there is \u201cno denying the momentum the WNBA and women\u2019s pro sports in general is seeing in Canada,\u201d according to Patrick Johnston of the Vancouver PROVINCE. NBA Canada Associate VP\/Global Partnerships Cheryl Sebastian said that the WNBA \u201chas tangible evidence of this,\u201d as \u201cviewership (in Canada) is up.\u201d Johnston noted subscriptions to WNBA League Pass are \u201cup too.\u201d Sebastian said Canada is the \u201conly country with our own social media channels.\u201d Johnston wrote the WNBA \u201cwouldn\u2019t set that up without believing there was an audience to hit\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/basketball\/vancouver-needs-to-get-on-the-wnba-train?itm_source=basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/basketball\/vancouver-needs-to-get-on-the-wnba-train?itm_source=basketball\">Vancouver PROVINCE, 8\/15<\/a>). Storm coach Noelle Quinn said that having a Canadian WNBA team like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/05\/23\/wnba-toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/05\/23\/wnba-toronto\/\">expansion club Toronto Tempo<\/a>, which begin play in 2026, will \u201chelp grow Canadian talent.\u201d Quinn said that the exposure a Canadian team can give to local young people can \u201cexpedite that process\u201d of \u201ckeeping them local, and developing the talent there.\u201d The CP\u2019s Gemma Karstens-Smith wrote Quinn hopes that kids who \u201ccome out to WNBA games in Vancouver leave continuing to \u2018hope and dream big.\u2019\u201d Quinn: \u201cFrom the talent to sponsorship to the viewership and all those things, it is a good time to be a fan and hopefully continue to inspire the dreams of the youth\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/electric-sellout-vancouver-game-milestone-052304039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/news\/electric-sellout-vancouver-game-milestone-052304039.html\">CP, 8\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Dream-Storm game drew a sellout crowd to Rogers Arena on Friday, there is \u201cno denying the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,77,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-78959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78959","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=78959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}