Unrivaled guide: How to watch, which WNBA stars are playing, learning the rules

The league features 36 of the top players in the WNBA, with numerous All-WNBA players, All-Stars and Olympians participating. Unrivaled’s six head coaches and members of the league’s basketball operations staff split the pool of players into six pods — A through F — with each pod featuring guards, wings or bigs. The coaches then selected one player from each pod, assigning them to a club. Coaches collaborated to set rosters without knowing which team would be theirs....

Unrivaled spans 10 weeks. Eight weeks will feature a standard slate of competition in which each team plays two games. From Feb. 10-14, the league will hold a one-on-one tournament, breaking up the regular season. That competition will be winner-take-all with a $250,000 bonus for the winner and an additional $10,000 for her 3×3 teammates......

While Unrivaled’s rosters will be made up of some of the WNBA’s biggest stars, the gameplay will be different from the summer season. Unrivaled is utilizing a modified 3×3 court that is 72 feet long by 49.2 feet wide. That’s more than 20 feet shorter than a normal WNBA court (and slightly narrower). However, it is also longer than a FIBA 3×3 court, which is 36.1 feet long.....

Unrivaled is not the first U.S. professional offseason league to launch recently. Athletes Unlimited debuted in 2022 with many WNBA players competing. While Athletes Unlimited, which begins Feb. 2 and runs for a month, is a 5×5 league, teams are redrafted each week and participants accumulate points for individual and team performances. Some players — namely Allisha Gray, Lexie Hull, Natasha Cloud and DiJonai Carrington — taking part in Unrivaled have previously participated in AU, but Unrivaled’s roster features significantly more WNBA star power and has gained more traction in the marketplace, even before its launch.




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