- Sep 5, 2010
- 94,694
- 132,726
***WOMEN'S HOOPS THREAD*** CONGRATS, 38-0 S. Carolina! CONGRATS, NY LIBERTY!!
- Thread in 'Sports & Training' Thread starter Started by darthska,
- Start date
- Jan 27, 2013
- 15,182
- 26,777
wtf
- Jan 27, 2013
- 15,182
- 26,777
"This game is rooted in how you would play basketball as a kid on a black top," Luke Cooper, Unrivaled president of basketball operations, told ESPN."
"...each Unrivaled game will feature three seven-minute quarters and a fourth quarter which the league is calling "winning score." The winning score will be determined by adding 11 points to the leading team's score through three quarters. For example, if the score is 50-48 heading into the final quarter, the first team to reach 61 points wins. There will never be overtime.
"We want this to be about basketball," Cooper said. "You're just playing to a score, which is honestly the purest form of basketball.
"When you played as a kid, no one played to 10 minutes when they were playing pickup. You throw a number out there and you played to it until someone hit a game winner."
Uh...throw a number out there? Absolutely not, but okay. Close enough. You either go to 11, 13, 15 and rarely 21. That's fine though."Unrivaled organizers hope playing to a target score eliminates late-game fouls and speeds up the game overall. To that end, the free throw process also will be different. When a player is fouled -- whether on a layup or a 3-pointer -- only one free throw will be awarded. The single shot is worth two points for a foul on a 2-point field goal, or three points if the foul occurred on a 3-point attempt. An and-1 is worth one point.
Players will foul out after their sixth foul, but if the team only has three players available and one of them picks up her sixth foul, she will remain in the game but incur technical fouls for each additional foul she commits. Each technical foul will be one shot for one point.
Because of the smaller court and desire for a fast-paced game, the shot clock in Unrivaled will be set to 18 seconds, rather than the 24-second possessions in the WNBA. The clock will stop on made baskets only in the last 30 seconds of a period, not the last minute.
Unrivaled also recently announced it will hold a 1-on-1 tournament from Feb.10-14 that pits players against each other in a single-elimination, winner-take-all competition with a $250,000 reward for the winner and an additional $10,000 for her 3-on-3 teammates."
The tourney is what I'm looking forward to. And they need to have the NBA adopt that next season. It's so so so far overdue. Should be good!
- Jan 27, 2013
- 15,182
- 26,777
https://www.reuters.com/sports/unrivaled-new-frontier-womens-hoops-arrives-friday-2025-01-15
January 15 - Professional women's basketball returns this week.
It's not the WNBA, and the jerseys will look a bit different, and there will be less players on the court, but the players scoring layups, knocking down deep shots, grabbing gritty rebounds and dishing out sweet assists will be the same.
From Breanna Stewart and Angel Reese to Napheesa Collier and Brittney Griner, most of the faces familiar to fans of women's basketball new and old are here.
Here is Unrivaled, the new 3-on-3 women's professional basketball league founded by Stewart and Collier.
The inaugural season starts Friday night with two games played in South Florida.
The league was created to give WNBA players another choice in the offseason. It's an alternative to going overseas, and the chance to stay in shape, make money, and have some fun in a different variation of the sport without having to travel abroad.
For years, WNBA players have played in foreign leagues - from Israel to Spain to Russia to Australia and elsewhere - during the offseason to make extra money.
Griner is among the countless group of WNBA players who played overseas during the offseason in the past, but not since her detainment in Russia in 2022.
Griner was held in a Russian prison for 293 days after being arrested on drug charges and was only freed after President Joe Biden negotiated a prisoner swap.
"I feel like something was missing in my offseason; I was used to playing year-round," Griner told ESPN. "This is going to help me stay fresh, knocking all the dust off... Hopefully, it helps the [WNBA] bring in more viewers, more [corporate] partners. It's definitely going to put more pressure on the [WNBA] to do better, honestly."
Not only will Unrivaled give players the opportunity to play at home during the offseason, but they'll make good money doing it too. The average salary in Unrivaled is $222,000, which is more than the supermax salary in the WNBA of roughly $214,000.
January 15 - Professional women's basketball returns this week.
It's not the WNBA, and the jerseys will look a bit different, and there will be less players on the court, but the players scoring layups, knocking down deep shots, grabbing gritty rebounds and dishing out sweet assists will be the same.
From Breanna Stewart and Angel Reese to Napheesa Collier and Brittney Griner, most of the faces familiar to fans of women's basketball new and old are here.
Here is Unrivaled, the new 3-on-3 women's professional basketball league founded by Stewart and Collier.
The inaugural season starts Friday night with two games played in South Florida.
The league was created to give WNBA players another choice in the offseason. It's an alternative to going overseas, and the chance to stay in shape, make money, and have some fun in a different variation of the sport without having to travel abroad.
For years, WNBA players have played in foreign leagues - from Israel to Spain to Russia to Australia and elsewhere - during the offseason to make extra money.
Griner is among the countless group of WNBA players who played overseas during the offseason in the past, but not since her detainment in Russia in 2022.
Griner was held in a Russian prison for 293 days after being arrested on drug charges and was only freed after President Joe Biden negotiated a prisoner swap.
"I feel like something was missing in my offseason; I was used to playing year-round," Griner told ESPN. "This is going to help me stay fresh, knocking all the dust off... Hopefully, it helps the [WNBA] bring in more viewers, more [corporate] partners. It's definitely going to put more pressure on the [WNBA] to do better, honestly."
Not only will Unrivaled give players the opportunity to play at home during the offseason, but they'll make good money doing it too. The average salary in Unrivaled is $222,000, which is more than the supermax salary in the WNBA of roughly $214,000.
