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Laces BC
Laces Basketball Club, also known as Laces BC, is an American professional basketball team. They are a member of the Unrivaled basketball league, and made their debut in January 2025. The teams are based in Miami, Florida and the Laces are led by coach Andrew Wade. History On October 24, 2024, the Unrivaled basketball league announced the names and logos of six teams joining its league, which are Laces BC, Lunar Owls BC, Mist BC, Phantom BC, Rose BC, and Vinyl BC. Laces BC, along with the other five teams, will be based in Miami, Florida for the inaugural 2025 season. Alex Bazzell, the president of Unrivaled, confirmed the league owns all six teams. The six inaugural head coaches were later hired on November 15. Roster On November 20, 2024, the six head coaches collaborated on balancing and choosing the rosters for the six teams. After the selection show, the Laces BC's roster was decided with Kelsey Plum, Kayla McBride, Kate Martin, Alyssa Thomas, Courtney Williams and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unrivaled (basketball)
Unrivaled is a women's professional three-on-three basketball league in the United States. History The league was founded in 2023 by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, in part to allow WNBA players to play domestically and to bypass complications from the WNBA's prioritization rule for players who choose to play overseas in the WNBA offseason. Unrivaled's inaugural season began on January 17, 2025, in Medley, Florida near Miami, with plans for the 2026 season to have games played across the United States. The league announced Stewart as the first signed player on July 9, 2024. The league's first-ever 1-on-1 single-elimination tournament, which took place February 10 to 14, 2025, was won by Collier. The league's first-ever championship was won by Rose BC on March 17, 2025. Rules and regulations Games are played on a full court with two ends, and consist of three seven-minute periods followed by a "winning score" fourth period played under Elam Ending conditions. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Illustrated
''Sports Illustrated'' (''SI'') is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. Founded by Stuart Scheftel, it was the first magazine with a circulation of over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. It is also known for its annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, swimsuit issue, which has been published since 1964, and has spawned other complementary media works and products. Owned until 2018 by Time Inc., it was sold to Authentic Brands Group (ABG) following the sale of Time Inc. to Meredith Corporation. The Arena Group (formerly theMaven, Inc.) was subsequently awarded a 10-year license to operate the ''Sports Illustrated''–branded editorial operations, while ABG Brand licensing, licenses the brand for other non-editorial ventures and products. In January 2024, The Arena Group missed a quarterly licensing payment, leading ABG to terminate the company's license. Arena, in turn, laid off the publication's editorial staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 In American Women's Basketball
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediapro
Mediaproducción, S.L.U., better known as Mediapro, is a multimedia communications group in Spain founded in April 1994 in Barcelona. The company is well involved in movie and television production. The company holds branch offices in Madrid, Seville, Girona, Lisbon, Madeira, Rabat, Budapest, Miami, Florida, Miami, Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Rio de Janeiro, Porto, Qatar, Amsterdam, and Tenerife. Southwind, that maintains different teams and operation entities across Hong Kong, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom is the majority shareholder. Minority stakes held by WPP and the founding partner. Operations Canada On 21 February 2019, Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) announced that Mediapro would serve as the exclusive media rightsholder of Canada Soccer, including rights to the Canadian Premier League, the Canadian Championship, and national team matches. In April, Mediapro announced OneSoccer, a subscription service that would carry this content. On 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Unrivaled Season
The 2025 season of Unrivaled was the league's inaugural season. Six teams will play a regular season of matches in January to March to contest four places in a single-elimination playoff tournament that determines the champions of the league. Teams and coaches On October 24, the inaugural six team names were announced. For the 2025 season, teams did not have designated geographic connections, although the branding was created with a consideration for potential future sale and relocation of the teams. On November 15, 2024, the 2025 head coaches were announced: Phil Handy, Adam Harrington, Nola Henry, DJ Sackmann, Teresa Weatherspoon, and Andrew Wade. On November 20, after the team selection, the head coaches were each assigned to a team. Rosters For the inaugural season, Unrivaled was originally announced to consist of 30 professional players with six 5-player teams. Starting in July 2024, the players for the 2025 season began to be announced one-by-one on Unrivaled's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betnijah Laney-Hamilton
Betnijah Laney-Hamilton (born October 29, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for Rutgers University. Early life and college Laney-Hamilton started playing basketball at 10 years old, largely due to her mother having played basketball competitively. Laney-Hamilton is the daughter of Yolanda Laney, who played for Cheyney State and was also coached by C. Vivian Stringer. Her closest friends are Aiyannah Peal and Sydni Epps. Laney-Hamilton attended Smyrna High School in Smyrna, Delaware where she averaged 23.7 points, 10 rebounds, 4.4 steals, 4.3 assists and 1.2 blocks per game as a senior and was named a McDonald's All-American. In her four-year career at Rutgers, Laney-Hamilton played 129 games with 107 starts, and averaged 10.9 points, 7.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.2 steals per game. Professional career WNBA Chicago Sky (2015–2016) On April 16, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiki Jefferson
Kiki Jefferson (born March 1, 2001) is an American professional basketball player who is a free agent. She was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx in the 2024 WNBA draft. She played college basketball for the James Madison Dukes and the Louisville Cardinals. Early life Jefferson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Marcus and Kiyana Jefferson. High school career She attended and played basketball at Lancaster Catholic High School in Lancaster, under head coach Charlie Detz. Detz described Jefferson as "a special person and a once-in-a-generational player." During her time on the team, she was named to the Lancaster Lebanon League First-Team selection three times, Lancaster Lebanon All-Star, USA Today Pennsylvania First Team honoree three times, USA Today Pennsylvania Player of the Year, Pennsylvania Class 4A Player of the Year twice, and PennLive's Player of the Year twice. Jefferson helped her team go undefeated in her junior year, winning the Lancaster Lebanon League, Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natisha Hiedeman
Natisha Hiedeman (born February 10, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted with the eighteenth overall pick in the 2019 WNBA draft, which is the highest of any Marquette basketball player in school history and the highest draft pick for the Big East Conference since conference re-alignment. Early life Shortly after her birth, Hiedeman had to wear a full-body harness due to a hyperextension in her left leg. Her mother had her at 19. As a child, Hiedeman also played baseball and was the only girl on her team. Hiedeman attended Green Bay Southwest High School, where she had the nickname "T-Spoon" after former WNBA star Teresa Weatherspoon. She holds school records in triple jump, high jump, long jump, and 100 meter hurdles. College career Hiedeman was recruited to Marquette Golden Eagles women's basketball, Marquette after being the leading scorer in the Green Bay Metro area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Hayes
Tiffany Kiara Hayes (born September 20, 1989) is an American-Azerbaijani professional basketball player for the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Hayes played college basketball for the Connecticut Huskies, playing for the 2009 and 2010 NCAA National Champions. Early life Hayes was born September 20, 1989, in Winter Haven, a city in Central Florida, to Dorothy and Renard Hayes. Hayes played basketball for Winter Haven High School in Winter Haven, Florida. The team compiled a 117–9 record during her career, and won the state championship in 2004 and 2007. She was the leading scorer on her team, scoring an average of 18.3 points per game. Hayes helped lead the AAU team Essence to the 2007 National Championship. Hayes was invited to the 2007 Youth Development Festival, a USA Basketball sponsored event for elite sophomores and juniors in high school, biennially at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. The 2007 event featured three teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Young
Jacquelyn Young (born September 16, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is the daughter of Linda Young and David Wayne Edwards, Sr. She was drafted first overall by the Las Vegas Aces in the 2019 WNBA draft. A graduate of Princeton Community High School, she played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, reaching two NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, NCAA finals and winning one in 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, 2018. She won a gold medal in Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 3x3 tournament, Women's 3x3 basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics and a national Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA championship in 2022. In 2024, she won the gold medal in Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 5x5 basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Cloud
Natasha "Tash" Cloud (born February 22, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Early life During high school, Cloud led Cardinal O'Hara to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Class AAAA state finals as a junior and to the second round as a senior. She earned First Team All-Delco honors in both her junior and senior year. As a junior, she additionally earned a Pennsylvania AAAA Third Team All-State selection. Natasha Cloud gained recognition after being named AAAA First Team All-State as a senior. During the season, she averaged 12.3 points, 7.9 rebounds, 5.2 assists, and 4.0 steals per game. She earned the Michael Menichini Award in 2009. Following her high school career, Cloud received a scholarship to play at the University of Maryland as a Terp. College career University of Maryland 2010–2011: Cloud played in 31 of 32 games of her freshman year and star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefanie Dolson
Stefanie Dolson (born January 8, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted sixth overall in the 2014 WNBA draft. Dolson played center for the UConn women's basketball team and won back-to-back national championships in 2013 and 2014. She won a gold medal in 3x3 basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Early life Dolson played volleyball and basketball at Minisink Valley High School in Slate Hill, New York and was a member of the National Honor Society. During her junior year she averaged 18.9 points, 16.7 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 6.2 blocks. As a senior, she averaged 22.8 points, 17.6 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 5.2 blocks. Dolson led Minisink Valley High School to four straight New York State Public High School Athletic Association Section 9 championship game appearances and finished her career at Minisink Valley with 1,951 points and 1,607 rebounds. She was a McDonal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
