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Former Atlanta Dream guard Renee Montgomery became a WNBA team owner on Friday, Feb. 26. Montgomery made history as she becomes the first former player to be both an owner and executive of a WNBA franchise. She’s part of a three-member investor group that was approved to purchase her former team. The sale follows pressure…

Layshia Clarendon

WNBA star Layshia Clarendon underwent breast removal surgery this month and is on the road to recovery. Clarendon, who identifies as non-binary, announced the news on Instagram and shared a few photos of the procedure, often referred to as “top surgery” as well. She wrote, “On Jan 13th at 10am I hugged my wife in…

Marcus Crenshaw

Self-made millionaire, Marcus Crenshaw, earned his wealth by way of hard work. After playing professional basketball overseas, Crenshaw created his first successful marketing agency, Hoop Cred which focused on WNBA players. In 2016, Crenshaw created She Hoops Network to enhance exposure for women and young girls who play basketball. The Detroit native has translated his…

LeBron James wants to put together an ownership team to buy the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream franchise from outgoing Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. James, 36, made the comments in the wake of Loeffler’s loss to the Rev. Raphael Warnock in the Senate runoff election in Georgia on Jan. 5, 2021. Think I’m gone put together an…

Long-beleaguered NBA star Dwight Howard has finally found an oasis after wandering in his own personal desert for the past decade. Howard, the 34-year-old Los Angeles Lakers center, celebrated two major milestones in the fall of 2020: his Lakers took home the 2020 NBA championship, and he secretly tied the knot with his fiancée Te’a…

WNBA legend Sue Bird says the beleaguered league has always had trouble attracting mainstream viewers because most of the women are “tall, Black, gay.” Contrast this, Bird says, with the more demure and photogenic women’s soccer league, which is full of players who are predominantly “cute and White and straight.” “To be completely blunt, but…

WNBA star Maya Moore shocked the sports world when she decided to step away from a winning team to fight for social justice. During her hiatus from the Minnesota Lynx, Moore helped to free a Black man from prison who was wrongfully convicted. Jonathan Irons was convicted at 16 for breaking into a home in…

The Atlanta Hawks recently hosted a one-hour discussion called “EmpowHER by Lady Ballers,” which featured a conversation with two-time WNBA champion and activist Renee Montgomery and College Park Skyhawks general manager Tori Miller. The conversation was moderated by Annie Finberg, a reporter and senior coordinator of digital content for the Atlanta Hawks. With more than…

Conservatives didn’t have to worry about WNBA players kneeling during the national anthem. They weren’t even on the court. The WNBA made a powerful statement in support of Breonna Taylor to open the season when both teams, filled with Black and White players and other nationalities, walked back to the locker room as the national…

U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is facing backlash after she condemned the Black Lives Matter movement. Loeffler is a co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream and a supporter of the current presidential administration, according to ESPN. The staunch Republican from Georgia made headlines last week when she spoke against “Black Lives Matter” being placed on players’…

At the apex of Maya Moore’s spectacular and award-winning basketball career in the WNBA, she walked away without hesitation and without looking back. After winning four WNBA championships in six years and two Olympic Gold Medals and earning a gazillion personal recognition honors, Moore traded in the locker room for the courtroom. She was singularly…

As the NBA’s highest-ranking woman in basketball operations, Swin Cash is the vice president of basketball operations and team development for the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans. She’s a former WNBA player with three WNBA championships under her belt, two WNBA All-Star Game MVP Awards, and two Olympic gold medals and was named one of the WNBA’s…

Gayle King continues to be under fire after questioning WNBA legend Lisa Leslie about the 2003 rape case against Kobe Bryant. Leslie was playing for the Los Angles Sparks when she met Bryant, who was an 18-year-old rookie with the Lakers. During her interview with Leslie on “CBS This Morning,” King asked if Bryant’s rape…

Skylar Diggins-Smith, one of the marquee players for the WNBA, unloaded on her team and the league after she played pregnant for the entire 2018 season. Diggins-Smith, the point guard for the Dallas Wings, spat fire on Twitter, saying she is angry for “having no support from [her] own organization.” She says no sympathy was…

There will be a lot of new faces, while some familiar faces will be absent from the Minnesota Lynx roster this season. In their first-round draft pick, the Lynx selected Napheesa Collier from the University of Connecticut. Some other new faces are Lexie Brown the daughter of former NBA basketball player Dee Brown, Odyssey Sims a…

LeBron James just got paid big time, and this has some WNBA players seething. The bigger issue of pay disparity between the NBA and WNBA is such that former first-round pick A’ja Wilson felt compelled to illuminate this fact when LeBron James got his colossal new contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. Wilson, a 6-foot-5-inch…

The Atlanta Dream are 2-3 and are still getting used to one another in a shortened WNBA season.

Basketball player, community leader and writer, Simone Edwards is a woman who does it all. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, she became the first Jamaican player to be signed to the WNBA. She garnered many awards and traveled the world during her career in basketball. Aside from her talent on the court, Edwards is committed…

After a 78-70 victory over the Atlanta Dream, Dallas Wings star Skylar Diggins-Smith discussed why she believed that having more women cover the WNBA would result in better storytelling for the league. In this clip, Diggins-Smith refers to the “Worldwide Leader,” also known as ESPN.