{"id":212501,"date":"2025-10-09T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212501\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:50:10","slug":"wnba-pair-from-alabama-set-to-play-for-athletes-unlimited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212501\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA pair from Alabama set to play for Athletes Unlimited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both former Alabama<\/a> basketball players in the WNBA will follow their rookie seasons by playing in Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball Season 5 this winter. The league has announced Los Angeles Sparks guard Sarah Ashlee Barker<\/a> and Las Vegas Aces guard Aaliyah Nye<\/a> have signed to play in its 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball will play its 2026 season across four weeks at Nashville Municipal Auditorium starting on Feb. 4. Each week, four captains draft 10-player teams. The champion of the league is not a team, but a player. Players earn individual points through statistics, quarter wins, game wins and Game MVP selections. Last season\u2019s champion was Maddy Siegrest, who plays in the WNBA for the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n

A former Spain Park High School star, Barker joined the Sparks as the ninth pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft<\/a>. Barker averaged 3.1 points and 1.9 rebounds in 34 games, with eight starts, as a rookie. She scored a career-high 15 points in the final game of the season on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n

Nye started her WNBA career as the 13th pick in the 2025 draft<\/a>, and she\u2019s still playing. After beating the Phoenix Mercury 90-88 on Wednesday night, Las Vegas has a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven WNBA Finals. The Aces can win the championship on Friday night.<\/p>\n

In 44 regular-season games, Nye averaged 3.8 points and 1.5 rebounds as a rookie.<\/p>\n

\"LasLas Vegas Aces guard Aaliyah Nye (13) chases a loose ball during a WNBA game on July 16, 2025, in Arlington, Texas.(AP Photo\/LM Otero)<\/p>\n

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