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The WNBA staff will play in the identical enviornment the place Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Inexperienced are stars.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The WNBA is coming to the bay.
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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert introduced Thursday an enlargement franchise will come to the San Francisco Bay Space and start play in 2025.
Engelbert has confronted fixed questions on when the league would increase, to which she would reply when the time was proper.
“The fitting time, the suitable second is at this time,” Engelbert stated, whereas welcoming, “the subsequent technology of leaders, moms and athletes.”
The NBA powerhouse Golden State Warriors have deliberate for this since earlier than the opening of Chase Middle in 2019. The WNBA staff will play in the identical enviornment the place Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Inexperienced are stars.
“The Bay Space is the proper marketplace for a WNBA staff, and we’re thrilled this chance has lastly come to fruition,” Warriors Co-Government Chairman and CEO Joe Lacob stated. “We’ve been interested by a WNBA franchise for a number of years, due partly to the wealthy historical past of girls’s basketball within the Bay Space, and imagine now’s the perfect time to execute that imaginative and prescient and construct upon that legacy.”
Available for the announcement had been Corridor of Fame Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, former participant and present California coach Charmin Smith, WNBPA Director of Participant Relations Jayne Appel and different former stars resembling Sheryl Swoopes and Seimone Augustus.
Engelbert known as the Bay Space a “hub” for girls’s basketball.
“It is a thrilling time for the WNBA,” she stated.
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