{"id":163053,"date":"2026-04-11T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:20:21","slug":"wnba-officially-expanding-to-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163053\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA officially expanding to Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an expected move Thursday, the WNBA&#8217;s power brokers officially voted to expand and add a team in Philadelphia, as well as two other cities (Cleveland and Detroit).<\/p>\n<p>The team won&#8217;t hit the hardwood until 2030, and its team name is yet unknown. The squad should make its debut in Xfinity Mobile Arena just ahead of a new arena being built for the Sixers. It will move with them and the Flyers when a new facility is built.<\/p>\n<p>The team shares the same ownership group as its male counterparts,\u00a0Harris Blitzer Sports &amp; Entertainment, which won the bid to own the budding franchise last year.<\/p>\n<p>The league currently has 15 teams, the Philly team will be the 18th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">SIGN UP HERE to receive the <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/newsletters\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PhillyVoice Sports newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15.36px;\">Follow Evan on Twitter:<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evan_macy\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@evan_macy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15.36px;\">Like us on Facebook:\u00a0<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phillyvoicesports\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PhillyVoice Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an expected move Thursday, the WNBA&#8217;s power brokers officially voted to expand and add a team in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31763,4794,69,71,70,8401,37281],"class_list":{"0":"post-163053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-sixers","14":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}