The most important season in WNBA history, plus the NCAA tourney expansion
Good morning! Last call for Pulse questions before we get some answers later this month. Thank you to everyone who’s submitted questions already.
Coming up today: 👋 The WNBA’s big moment ↔️ More NCAA tourney teams 🌀 Canes cruise, again Arrivals : The new W is finally here Millions of words and minutes have already been spent discussing this WNBA season, which is likely the most important in the history of the league. (We actually wrote that last year, too, but for different reasons . ) A monumental new collective bargaining agreement is in place.
Players are getting paid roughly quadruple what they made last year. TV rights deals are exploding. I could keep going.
The short of it: This is when the W can truly take hold on a national level. The infrastructure and rewards are here. It’s a big deal.
And the season officially starts tonight. We’ll write millions more words on every aspect over the next few months, but I want to bring in two of our experts, Sabreena Merchant and Annie Costabile, who happen to co-author a women’s basketball newsletter we just launched. They were nice enough to entertain my questions: Everything about this WNBA season off the court feels new.
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