{"id":501739,"date":"2026-03-03T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501739\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:56:08","slug":"wnba-training-facilities-as-measured-in-dollars-and-square-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501739\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA training facilities as measured in dollars and square footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-womens-sports \">Our SBJ colleague Bret McCormick led his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/sb-blogs\/newsletter-facilities\/2026\/02\/23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/sb-blogs\/newsletter-facilities\/2026\/02\/23\/\">Facilities newsletter<\/a> last week with a story about the soon-to-be-completed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/23\/chicago-skys-training-facility-approaches-completion-with-increased-scale-and-scope\/?issueId=LHSDYYZ5GJAONETBN3QEZWCB4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/23\/chicago-skys-training-facility-approaches-completion-with-increased-scale-and-scope\/?issueId=LHSDYYZ5GJAONETBN3QEZWCB4Y\">Chicago Sky training facility<\/a>, which will be the largest in the WNBA &#8230; until the Indiana Fever\u2019s opens in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-womens-sports \">But they are far from the only two. The count of opened or slated-for-2027 facilities now stands at nine of the 15 teams that will exist by the end of this year. The massive price tags that accompany some pretty substantial square footage are huge confidence votes in the league and its players, as CBA negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-womens-sports \">Absent from this list are the Dallas Wings, whose publicly funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/26\/dallas-trying-to-shift-responsibility-for-wings-practice-facility-to-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/26\/dallas-trying-to-shift-responsibility-for-wings-practice-facility-to-team\/\">practice facility project has seemingly stalled<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Table breaking down all of the WNBA practice facilities including the opening dates, cost and size of each.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2GTLBNJ4TRE6RL34XPJT4TR3VE.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"331\"\/>  SBJ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our SBJ colleague Bret McCormick led his Facilities newsletter last week with a story about the soon-to-be-completed Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[74371,126016,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-501739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-data-and-insights","9":"tag-data-drive","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501739","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=501739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}