Category:WNBA
From Hoopedia
On April 24, 1996, women’s basketball announced “We Got Next” as the NBA Board of Governors approved the concept of a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) to begin play in June 1997. Rebecca Lobo and Sheryl Swoopes were the first players to sign to the league, followed soon thereafter by Lisa Leslie and Ruthie Bolton-Holifield. Since then, the WNBA has become the most successful women’s professional sports league in history and has set new standards for what women athletes, and women in general, can achieve.
