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List of WNBA seasons

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A regular season game during the 2022 WNBA season between the Seattle Storm and Atlanta Dream in Seattle, Washington

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional women's basketball league based in the United States with 12 teams as of 2024.[1] The league was founded in 1996 by the men's National Basketball Association (NBA) as a wholly-owned subsidiary and began play in the 1997 season with eight teams.[2][3] WNBA shares the same court dimensions, hoop height, and shot clock length as NBA, but has had shorter quarters of ten minutes each since 2006 and uses a smaller ball to match with international FIBA standards.[1][4][5] Full NBA ownership of the league ended in 2002 and new independent ownership groups began investing in franchises; the WNBA has seven teams with independent ownership and five that are under the same ownership as an NBA team and share the same home arena.[3][6]

The league's 12 teams are organized into the Eastern and Western conferences;[1] a 13th team is scheduled to begin play in the 2025 season.[7] The number of WNBA teams has varied since the league's original eight in 1997 due to expansions and later contractions; the first expansion teams were added in 1998 and were followed by two more rounds of additions that brought the total to 16 teams in 2000. Following the change in NBA ownership in 2002, the WNBA lost two teams. The league lost two more teams by 2006 but expanded to remain at 13 teams. The number of teams has remained at 12 since the Houston Comets ceased operations after the 2008 season.[8]

As of the 28th season in 2024, each team plays 40 games during the regular season, which runs from May to September. The 2024 season includes a month-long break for the Summer Olympic Games that begins after the annual WNBA All-Star Game in mid-July.[9][10] The summer schedule is mostly played during the NBA offseason, which allows teams to share venues;[11] during the WNBA offseason, many players transfer to overseas leagues that follow a fall and winter schedule.[12] Teams play four games against opponents in the same conference and two teams from the other conference; three games are played against the remaining four teams in the other conference.[13] Five regular season games in early June are played against teams in the same conference to determine qualification for the WNBA Commissioner's Cup, an in-season tournament first played in 2021; the final is hosted by the team with the better win–loss record in qualifying games.[14]

The eight teams with the best regular season records, regardless of conference, qualify for the WNBA playoffs to determine the league's champion in the WNBA Finals. Since 2022, the playoffs have used a best-of-three series in the first round, where teams are seeded based on regular season performance, and a best-of-five format for the semifinals and WNBA Finals.[15][16] The most successful playoff teams are the Minnesota Lynx, Seattle Storm, and defunct Houston Comets, who have each won four WNBA championships; the Lynx have made six appearances in the WNBA Finals, the most in league history.[17][18] Three current WNBA teams have yet to win a championship; among them, the New York Liberty has finished as runners-up in five WNBA Finals.[19][20]

The best regular season performance in league history was set in the 1998 season by the Houston Comets, who finished with a 27–3 win–loss record—a winning percentage of 0.900. The number of games played by WNBA teams has steadily increased since the initial 28-game schedule in the inaugural season; for most of the league's history, teams played 34 games before the schedule was expanded to 36 games in 2022 and 40 games in 2023. The Las Vegas Aces won 34 games during the expanded 2023 season and set a record for most wins in a WNBA season.[21][22] The WNBA playoffs has also changed its format several times; until 2016, the two conferences were separated until the WNBA Finals. Under the cross-conference format, top-seeded teams received single or double byes and some rounds had single-elimination games instead of a best-of-five series.[23] The format was simplified in 2022 to remove single-elimination rounds and byes.[16]

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  2. ^ Hirsch, Lauren; Lowe, Shauntel (February 3, 2022). "W.N.B.A. Raises $75 Million With Hopes of Business Model Revamp". The New York Times. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Thompson, Tisha; Voepel, M.A. (October 15, 2021). "WNBA commissioner outlines transformative plan to pivot league from 'survive to thrive'". ESPN. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
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  7. ^ Copeland, Kareem; Boren, Cindy (October 5, 2023). "WNBA adds an expansion team in the San Francisco Bay Area". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  8. ^ Hart, Torrey (October 4, 2023). "A history of WNBA expansion as league set to announce Bay Area team". The Athletic. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  9. ^ Pickman, Ben; Merchant, Sabreena (December 18, 2023). "WNBA unveils 2024 schedule with 40 regular-season games, new Commissioner's Cup format". The Athletic. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  10. ^ Feinberg, Doug (December 18, 2023). "WNBA to take its usual month-long break for the Olympics". Associated Press. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  11. ^ Oram, Bill (November 3, 2023). "WNBA shelves plans to expand to Portland". The Oregonian. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  12. ^ Merchant, Sabreena (November 22, 2022). "Why some WNBA players are electing against international play this offseason: 'Sometimes it's just not worth it'". The Athletic. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  13. ^ Allen, Percy (December 18, 2023). "Here's a look at the Storm's 2024 schedule". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  14. ^ Voepel, M.A. (December 18, 2023). "WNBA goes to more compact format for Commissioner's Cup". ESPN. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  15. ^ Henderson, Cydney (September 12, 2023). "2023 WNBA playoffs: Finals schedule, scores, matchups and award winners". USA Today. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  16. ^ a b Allen, Percy (November 18, 2021). "WNBA announces overhaul of playoff format starting in 2022". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  17. ^ Horrow, Ellen J. (October 6, 2020). "Seattle Storm sweep Las Vegas Aces to win their fourth WNBA championship". USA Today. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  18. ^ Weisfeld, Oren (May 17, 2023). "WNBA power lies with two superteams. But that's not necessarily a bad thing". The Guardian. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  19. ^ Vanoni, Maggie (October 19, 2023). "UConn women's basketball's Kiah Stokes wins second WNBA title as Las Vegas Aces beat NY Liberty". CT Insider. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  20. ^ Pickman, Ben; Merchant, Sabreena (October 8, 2023). "2023 WNBA Finals: How to watch, Aces vs. Liberty season series results and key storylines". The Athletic. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  21. ^ Merchant, Sabreena (August 24, 2023). "Aces set WNBA regular-season wins record with victory over Sky". The Athletic. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  22. ^ Graham, Bryan Armen (October 19, 2023). "The Las Vegas Aces are the next great American sports dynasty". The Guardian. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  23. ^ Megdal, Howard (January 28, 2016). "The WNBA Is Reorganizing Its Playoff System. Could the NBA Be Next?". Vice News. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
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