{"id":575211,"date":"2026-04-10T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575211\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:06:11","slug":"wnba-formally-approves-expansion-in-detroit-play-set-to-begin-in-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575211\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA formally approves expansion in Detroit, play set to begin in 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (WXYZ) \u2014 It is officially game on for the WNBA: the league announced Thursday that Detroit has been approved for an expansion team by the board of governors.<\/p>\n<p>The team has yet to be named but is slated to tip off at Little Caesars Arena in 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\">Previous report: Detroit&#8217;s riverfront could get new WNBA facility on former Uniroyal tire site<\/p>\n<p>Detroit&#8217;s riverfront could get new WNBA facility on former Uniroyal tire site<\/p>\n<p>Expansions were also approved for Cleveland to start in 2028 and Philadelphia in 2030. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly two decades since the Detroit Shock departed.<\/p>\n<p>League leaders say the surge in popularity made this the perfect time to bring the pro game back to Michigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (WXYZ) \u2014 It is officially game on for the WNBA: the league announced Thursday that Detroit has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[156871,156872,99,434,156873],"class_list":{"0":"post-575211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-7-action-news-sports","9":"tag-detroit-sports","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba","12":"tag-wxyz-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575211","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=575211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}