{"id":593459,"date":"2023-10-05T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wnba-to-add-bay-area-expansion-team\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:56:00","slug":"wnba-to-add-bay-area-expansion-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wnba-to-add-bay-area-expansion-team\/","title":{"rendered":"#WNBA to add Bay Area expansion team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ffb5ccfeb1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wnba-to-add-bay-area-expansion-team\/#The_new_team_will_play_at_San_Franciscos_Chase_Center_home_of_the_Golden_State_Warriors_starting_in_2025\" >The new team will play at San Francisco\u2019s Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors, starting in 2025.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_new_team_will_play_at_San_Franciscos_Chase_Center_home_of_the_Golden_State_Warriors_starting_in_2025\"><\/span>The new team will play at San Francisco\u2019s Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors, starting in 2025.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-254828\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" 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960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-1387843806_1_hitrwo\/san-francisco-s-chase-center-home-of-the-nba-s-golden-state-warriors-photo-by-lance-king-getty-images.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-1387843806_1_hitrwo\/san-francisco-s-chase-center-home-of-the-nba-s-golden-state-warriors-photo-by-lance-king-getty-images.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GettyImages-1387843806_1_hitrwo\/san-francisco-s-chase-center-home-of-the-nba-s-golden-state-warriors-photo-by-lance-king-getty-images.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"WNBA to add Bay Area expansion team\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      San Francisco\u2019s Chase Center, home of the NBA\u2019s Golden State Warriors. Photo by Lance King\/Getty Images.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-254829\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            The WNBA will expand in 2025, the league announced this morning, adding a new team that will play at San Francisco\u2019s Chase Center, home of the NBA\u2019s Golden State Warriors. The franchise will operate under the same ownership as the Warriors and practice at the Oakland facility where the Warriors practiced until 2019. \u201cWe\u2019re coming in here, number one, to win,\u201d Warriors chairman Joe Lacob <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/38572580\/wnba-announces-bay-area-expansion-team-begin-play-2025\">told ESPN<\/a>. \u201cNumber two, we want to see this league and women\u2019s basketball grow, and we hope to be a big part of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official. We\u2019re expanding.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in at 1pm EST\/10am PST on X and the WNBA <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a> to watch live remarks from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CathyEngelbert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CathyEngelbert<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wnbagoldenstate?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wnbagoldenstate<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l7UiUT7kA3\">pic.twitter.com\/l7UiUT7kA3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WNBA (@WNBA) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA\/status\/1709957923194175737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n            The WNBA currently has 12 teams \u2014 six each in its Eastern and Western conferences. The league\u2019s last expansion came in 2000, growing to 16 teams. Several franchises went under in the years that followed, and the league has been cautious about expanding ever since, as ESPN notes. Its newest team, the Atlanta Dream, joined in 2008. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            The new Bay Area team\u2019s name is still under discussion, but Lacob hinted that they\u2019ll likely go with the short and sweet \u201cGolden State.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-254830\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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San Francisco\u2019s Chase Center, home of the NBA\u2019s Golden State Warriors. Photo by Lance King\/Getty Images. \u00a0 The WNBA will expand in 2025, the league announced this morning, adding a new team that will play at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/c_limit,w_1024\/c_crop,h_533,w_1024,x_0,y_98,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/GettyImages-1387843806_1_he6ivm\/GettyImages-1387843806_1_he6ivm.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1931,44162],"class_list":["post-593459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}