LAS VEGAS — Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier view Unrivaled, their newly founded basketball league, as symbiotic to the WNBA and an avenue to fill offseason voids for players as women’s basketball continues to grow in TV viewership and popularity.
“Oftentimes in the WNBA, it seems like we're fighting against each other when we should be working parallel,” Stewart, a New York Liberty forward, said. “So hopefully, Unrivaled and the WNBA can continue to do that, where we can really kind of encourage one another.”
Unrivaled, whose emergence was announced one week before players began arriving in Las Vegas for the 2023 WNBA All-Star game, is the latest women’s professional basketball league and would run during the WNBA offseason from January through March.