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Revision as of 03:24, 20 April 2024 edit 72.174.131.123 (talk) By way of it being sponsored (partially) by the NBA, the WNBA is the world's premier league for women's basketball. The players also have the biggest salaries compared to other, similar leagues. (https://queenballers.club/basketball/overseas-womens-basketball-salary) ← Previous edit		Revision as of 14:04, 20 April 2024 edit undo Bzweebl (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 4,274 edits Not strong enough evidence. Nicknames are not the same as alternative names. Only alternative names belong here if any. You don’t see MLB article saying also known as “the big leagues” or NBA article saying also known as “the league” even though those are popular nicknames Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit Next edit →
Line 38: \| current = [[2024 WNBA season]] }} The '''Women's National Basketball Association''' ('''WNBA''') ~~- colloquially known as "'''The W'''"<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGPtaKoQ_5U \| title=Welcome to the W \| website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref> -~~ is the premier women's professional basketball league. It is composed of 12 teams, all based in the United States. The league was founded on April 22, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the [[National Basketball Association]] (NBA), and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from May to September, with the All Star game being played midway through the season in July (except in [[Summer Olympic Games\|Olympic]] years) and the [[WNBA Finals]] at the end of September until the beginning of October. Five WNBA teams have direct NBA counterparts and normally play in the same arena: [[Indiana Fever]], [[Los Angeles Sparks]], [[Minnesota Lynx]], [[New York Liberty]], and [[Phoenix Mercury]]. The [[Atlanta Dream]], [[Chicago Sky]], [[Connecticut Sun]], [[Dallas Wings]], [[Las Vegas Aces]], [[Seattle Storm]], and [[Washington Mystics]] do not share an arena with a direct NBA counterpart, although four of the seven (the Dream, the Sky, the Wings, and the Mystics) share a market with an NBA counterpart, two (Mystics and Dream) play in [[NBA G League]] arenas, while the Storm shared an arena and market with an NBA team, the [[SuperSonics]], at the time of its founding. The Dream, Sky, Sun, Wings, Aces, Sparks, and Storm are all independently owned.