{"id":796249,"date":"2026-07-31T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796249\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:24:10","slug":"athletes-unlimited-pauses-its-winter-basketball-league-amid-a-shifting-womens-hoops-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796249\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes Unlimited pauses its winter basketball league amid a shifting women&#8217;s hoops landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"637NHNWURZCLRH3JM45VTVOZM4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Athletes Unlimited has decided to pause its basketball league this winter, the organization announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PKD5UUEYJVGJXFZ5PKUNE2A64E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud of the role that Athletes Unlimited has played in reshaping professional women\u2019s basketball,\u201d said a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AUProBasketball\/status\/2083221744697962754?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">statement<\/a> posted on the league\u2019s social media sites. \u201cBy pioneering an athlete-centered model, we\u2019ve help create new opportunities for players and demonstrated what\u2019s possible when athletes are at the center of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletes Unlimited has decided to pause its basketball league this winter, the organization announced Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,337949,337950,63701,4702,99,434,13017],"class_list":["post-796249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-bkl-athletes-unlimited-pause","tag-indoor-volleyball","tag-lacrosse","tag-softball","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796249","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=796249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}