After a lot anticipation, Unequalled Basketball League has unveiled its six official 3×3 groups. The brand new girls’s skilled basketball league, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart will embrace 30 WNBA stars divided into six groups.
The membership names are as follows:
- Laces Basketball Membership
- Mist Basketball Membership
- Phantom Basketball Membership
- Lunar Owls Basketball Membership
- Rose Basketball Membership
- Vinyl Basketball Membership
Unequalled, the brand new 3-on-3 girls’s basketball league began by Napheesa Collier & Breanna Stewart, has named its six groups:
◾Laces Basketball Membership
◾Mist Basketball Membership
◾Phantom Basketball Membership
◾Lunar Owls Basketball Membership
◾Rose Basketball Membership
◾Vinyl Basketball Membership pic.twitter.com/UGSTxn0PLE— Sports activities Enterprise Journal (@SBJ) October 24, 2024
“With no metropolis affiliations to tie to, we needed to floor our league to what makes girls’s basketball so particular: the neighborhood,” Unequalled Basketball stated in an official video. “On this planet’s greatest sport — soccer — soccer golf equipment have come to characterize unity and neighborhood across the recreation, a single crest that unifies gamers and followers which were there for the reason that starting. In skilled basketball leagues, golf equipment don’t exist but, however we’re altering that.”
Unequalled Basketball has been rolling out promotional materials and social media accounts for every of the six golf equipment.
The league has already introduced 26 of its 30 taking part gamers, with two of the 4 remaining gamers anticipated to be rookies. The present checklist of taking part gamers consists of rookies Angel Reese and Rickea Jackson and Olympians Chelsea Grey, Kahleah Copper, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Younger, Rhyne Howard, Dearica Hamby, Satou Sabally, and Jewell Loyd. There are up-and-coming younger gamers like DiJonai Carrington, in addition to extra established veterans like Brittney Griner, Tiffany Hayes and Skylar Diggins-Smith.
Because it at the moment stands, notable omissions embrace Caitlin Clark, A’ja Wilson, Sabrina Ionescu, and Alyssa Thomas.
How gamers will likely be divided up into groups stays to be seen; the one factor that’s sure is that Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart gained’t be teammates, as Collier has beforehand confirmed.
The league is about to tip-off on January seventeenth on TNT, with video games slated to happen on Mondays and Fridays for a span of 8 weeks, together with playoffs. In February, Unequalled may also function a single-elimination 1v1 event in an effort to decide the perfect 1v1 participant on the earth.