Defensive Player of the Year<\/a>, is a particularly noteworthy name, and not just due to her on-court play; Reese brings with her a massive fan base and emerged as one of the faces of the league in its inaugural season.<\/p>\nTwo spots remain, and so it\u2019s very possible that Reese will secure one of them and is simply in the process of negotiating her new contract. Player salaries weren\u2019t revealed in Year 1, but on average, Unrivaled players made more than $220,000.<\/p>\n
Unrivaled has been transparent about the process, sharing on Wednesday: \u201cA few of the players we\u2019re in productive negotiations with just need a little extra time \u2014 and we\u2019re all about giving our athletes the space to make big decisions on their own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Needless to say, there will be plenty of eyes on who Unrivaled\u2019s final two players are. Outside of potential returners, A\u2019ja Wilson and Caitlin Clark remain the two biggest names not to participate in the 3-on-3 league.<\/p>\n
Unrivaled has revealed that 16 new players will participate next season<\/p>\n
In the meantime, there are plenty of new names to get excited about \u2014 namely, the additions of several of the league\u2019s top rookies and best guards. Kelsey Plum, who was initially slated to play in Unrivaled in Year 1, but ended up dropping out before the season started, makes her highly anticipated debut. Kelsey Mitchell, an MVP finalist this season, is also another big-time addition, as is Rookie of the Year Paige Bueckers and Most Improved Player Veronica Burton.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the full list of new additions:<\/p>\n
Unrivaled has announced 30 returning players<\/p>\n
The vast majority of players from Year 1 are returning for Unrivaled\u2019s second season, including co-founders Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, MVP finalists Alyssa Thomas and Allisha Gray, and All-Stars Jackie Young, Satou Sabally, and Aliyah Boston, among others:<\/p>\n
The league\u2019s second season is set to tip off on January 5th in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of those, 30 are returners from Year 1, while 16 are first-time players (some of them are WNBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-197316","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\/197316","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=197316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}