Aaliyah Edwards, Brittney Sykes, Stefanie Dolson and Shakira Austin are all a part of the startup 3-on-3 league.
The Unrivaled basketball league revealed its team rosters this morning on a YouTube livestream.
The startup 3-on-3 league, founded by the New York Liberty’s Breanna Stewart and the Minnesota Lynx’s Napheesa Collier, will feature 36 WNBA players distributed among six teams. The teams are not tied to any specific location, and the inaugural season will take place in its entirety in Miami, with plans to switch to a traveling schedule in the future.
The six clubs are the Laces, Lunar Owls, Mist, Phantom, Rose and Vinyl. All cool names, though Laces and Mist are awfully close to the Aces and Mystics, who have several players apiece suiting up in Unrivaled.
Here are the teams, with the four Mystics bolded:
Laces: Kelsey Plum, Kayla McBride, Alyssa Thomas, Courtney Williams, Kate Martin and Stefanie Dolson
Lunar Owls*: Skylar Diggins-Smith, Allisha Gray, Napheesa Collier, Natasha Cloud and Shakira Austin
Mist: Jewell Loyd, Dijonai Carrington, Breanna Stewart, Courtney Vandersloot, Rickea Jackson and Aaliyah Edwards
Phantom*: Jackie Young, Marina Mabrey, Satou Sabally, Tiffany Hayes and Brittney Griner
Rose: Chelsea Gray, Kahleah Copper, Angel Reese, Brittney Sykes, Lexie Hull and Azurá Stevens
Vinyl: Arike Ogunbowale, Rhyne Howard, Aliyah Boston, Jordin Canada, Rae Burrell, Dearica Hamby
*Only 34 of the 36 players have been announced, so the Lunar Owls and Phantom will each receive one more player soon.
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When picking an Unrivaled team to support, note that the four Mystics players were all distributed to different teams. I would suggest pledging support to the Mist for all the Mystics fans, not just because of the phonetic symmetry but also because Aaliyah Edwards is by far the most exciting Mystic suiting up for Unrivaled. It doesn’t hurt that the Mist may be the best team in the league on paper as things stand.
Are you excited for Unrivaled? Let me know in the comments below! I’ll be covering the league’s news and games, which start up in January.