via BlackAmericaWeb: WNBA player Skylar Diggins-Smith took to Twitter recently to express her frustrations with the league after facing criticism for taking the 2019 season off to deal with postpartum depression. The four-time WNBA All-Star who currently plays point guard for the Dallas Wings, welcomed a son with her husband Daniel in April. Since her son’s birth, […]
GETTY IMAGES: The WNBA has withdrawn its fines for teams and players who showed support of citizens and police involved in recent shootings by wearing black “Black Lives Matter” warm-up shirts before games. WNBA president Lisa Borders said in a statement Saturday that the league was rescinding penalties given to the Indiana Fever, New […]
Songbird Briana “Bri” Babineaux, who boasts almost a half million followers on Instagram including Drake and Rhianna, is all packed and headed west to sing the National Anthem when the Los Angeles Sparks take on the Phoenix Mercury on Friday, June 17 @7:30 PM PST at The Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA. She will also perform during the halftime show. […]
While WNBA players don’t earn the same salary as their multi-million dollar NBA counterparts, that doesn’t mean their heart isn’t as big, if not bigger. New York Liberty center Tina Charles easily proves it. Charles will donate half of her $100,000 WNBA salary to a charity she started to honor her aunt, who died from […]
Monica Wright worked hard to make it to the WNBA – it had been her dream since she got the attention of college coaches when she was only 13 years old. She’s played five seasons with the Minnesota Lynx, the team who selected her in the first round of the 2010 WNBA draft. It came […]
There’s a gender gap everywhere–from corner offices to street corners, women are often faced with not having the same value as men, thus we get…
Monica Wright, the championship winning WNBA guard, has revealed that God helped her overcome criticism for breaking things off with former fiancee and fellow ball player Kevin Durant. Durant, the 26-year-old Oklahoma City Thunder forward, made headlines last year for being engaged to Christian Wright, the 26-year-old who won the 2013 WNBA Championship with […]
Washington Mystics Guard Ivory Latta and Dr. Caryl Mussenden joined guest host Jeff Johnson on “NewsOne Now” to explain the importance of early detection in the fight against…
Former WNBA player Pam McGee is stepping into the world of reality TV in “Moms Got Game” on the OWN Network. The show tells the…
She is a professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. After graduating from high school where she was named a WBCA All-American, she became one of the star athletes at the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team. In 2001, she was drafted by the Indiana Fever. In 2002, she had […]
Washington Mystics All-Star Guard Alana Beard is an expert at dribbling a basketball on the court, but Beard has taken on a new challenge: fighting diabetes. The four-time WNBA All-Star has joined the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Women’s Basketball Association (WNBA) and the NBA Development League in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association and […]
Washington Mystics All-Star Guard Alana Beard is an expert at dribbling a basketball on the court, but Beard has taken on a new challenge: fighting diabetes. The four-time WNBA All-Star has joined the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Women’s Basketball Association (WNBA) and the NBA Development League in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association and […]
