https://www.unrivaled.basketball/
this is on (hbo)max and im fuckin stoked
― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Friday, 17 January 2025 23:47 (five months ago)
more deets 4 those who are not into research
-6 teams of 6 players, all games played in miami-court is shortened rather than being a halfcourt sitch like the big 3-18 second shot clock (12 at reset)-first 3 quarters are 7 minutes, last quarter has a set winning score that is 11 points over the leading team's score after 3rd
― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2025 00:17 (five months ago)
rly cool opportunity for the wnba players to have a pro league to go to in the offseason. i rly like the lack of home markets, makes it more player-centric.
― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2025 00:18 (five months ago)
3 on 3 full court is wild
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2025 01:21 (five months ago)
skyler diggins-smiwth walk-off game-winning 3 to win by 4, hell yeah
― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2025 01:24 (five months ago)
I'm loving this.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 22 January 2025 05:25 (five months ago)
Mist v Owls give another classic. Owls/Napheesa are just inevitable
― Gukbe, Sunday, 9 February 2025 00:35 (four months ago)
owls have been killer everytime ive had a chance to watch
― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Sunday, 9 February 2025 02:13 (four months ago)
1v1 has been so fun. Dijonai v Satou was some ugly stuff. You can tell everyone wants that payday.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 12 February 2025 02:50 (four months ago)
Ben Pickman benpickman.bsky.social
Paige Bueckers has signed a three-year deal with Unrivaled which includes a first-year salary that exceeds her entire 4-year rookie scale contract in the WNBA, a source with knowledge of the agreement confirms to theathletic.bsky.social
First on it: ESPN
https://bsky.app/profile/benpickman.bsky.social/post/3lmqdy2iaw22m
― lag∞n, Monday, 14 April 2025 04:45 (two months ago)
hoping unrivaled continues to shame the w into raising pay at the next cba negotiations
― kendrick lamaze "to push a baby out" (m bison), Monday, 14 April 2025 23:04 (two months ago)
i'm sure it will work
i have trouble viewing unrivaled thru a lens of progressivism tho. if you gave wnba owners the opportunity to cut their rosters in half and only pay their 6 best players they'd sign the paperwork before you even finished the sentence. so while it's nice that the stars are getting more money they've simply created a league w/ 36 jobs compared to 175+. the WNBA pays shit but it's also employing conservatively 100+ women's basketball players who by the standards of unrivaled do not provide value in the women's basketball marketplace and thus aren't particularly needed.
this -- the women's basketball players who generate revenue playing on the side for 4x what they make in the wnba but also still playing in the wnba, in essence subsidizing the salaries of the wnba players not good enough to be in unrivaled -- can all live in harmony for some period of time because playing during the wnba offseason for more money is so culturally ingrained in women's basketball. but it's not hard to see the end point here where the next paige beuckers just skips the wnba altogether, the world decides 3x3 women's basketball is as good as 5x5, and the wnba ceases to exist. as a casual fan of the sport i'm not sure i care but you don't have to be an insane person to view it thru the lens of the richest among a labor force using the free market to bust a unionized league
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Monday, 14 April 2025 23:49 (two months ago)