{"id":192380,"date":"2025-09-30T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192380\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:42:08","slug":"unrivaled-reveals-11-new-wnba-players-joining-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192380\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrivaled reveals 11 new WNBA players joining next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/womens-sports\/1081942\/unrivaled-new-players-paige-bueckers-sonia-citron-kiki-iriafen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unrivaled<\/a> \u2014 the new professional 3-on-3 basketball league launched by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart last year \u2014 is entering Year 2, and the league has been slowly unveiling which WNBA players will participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In total, the league will include eight clubs of six players each this season, meaning that 12 more players will have the opportunity to play in the Miami-based league. Additionally, Unrivaled will include a development pool of players who will temporarily sign with clubs that are hampered by injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So far, 36 of the 48 participating players have been announced on social media by Unrivaled, and 11 of them are brand-new faces who will lace up in the 3-on-3 league for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">From this list, four players are fresh off their rookie seasons in the WNBA (Bueckers, Rivers, Iriafen, and Citron). But, several others are WNBA veterans, such as Erica Wheeler, who is fresh off a bounce-back season in the WNBA, and Kelsey Mitchell, who was a finalist for MVP. Burton, who was named the WNBA\u2019s Most Improved Player this past season, is another high-profile addition, as is Magbegor, one of the best defenders in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The list of the new additions signals that most of the WNBA\u2019s top players will participate in Unrivaled. Some notable omissions include four-time MVP A\u2019ja Wilson, last year\u2019s Rookie of the Year Caitlin Clark, and four-time All-Star Kelsey Plum. But 12 more names have yet to be announced, so some of these WNBA stars may participate in Year 2.<\/p>\n<p>25 players are returning from the inaugural season<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In addition, the league has already shared that 25 players from Year 1 will be back for Year 2:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unrivaled will continue to reveal the names of participating players in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrivaled \u2014 the new professional 3-on-3 basketball league launched by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart last year \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-192380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}