{"id":454951,"date":"2025-06-30T14:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=454951"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:13:42","slug":"the-wnba-is-expanding-to-18-teams-over-the-next-five-years-with-cleveland-detroit-and-philadelphia-all-set-to-join-the-league-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=454951","title":{"rendered":"The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1lo8nns\/the_wnba_is_expanding_to_18_teams_over_the_next\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/g7BbHIsQrUfzXpNZM-DssyFSe0-ZT4IHfN5EQm_XbP4.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=3e8a01e280c2d895d8b2ad24c285cbcc32127ebf\" alt=\"The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030.\" title=\"The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030.\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> <!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Cleveland will begin play in 2028, Detroit in 2029 and Philadelphia the season after, pending approval from the NBA and WNBA Board of Governors.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/jrbill1991\"> \/u\/jrbill1991 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wnba-expansion-cleveland-detroit-philadelphia-0a3d313baf917010f4d4d5ae0744ec7c?taid=68629754e9ffab0001b55187&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;__cf_chl_rt_tk=A6PAtWCxbC93iUd1Lo2krU7hJtNKcMQOYQRiM8Oqofk-1751292859-1.0.1.1-bU2WxsMPoy430VqE4Qn_j3qy_8d3uruyf9b4Lco_i1k\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1lo8nns\/the_wnba_is_expanding_to_18_teams_over_the_next\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cleveland will begin play in 2028, Detroit in 2029 and Philadelphia the season after, pending approval from the NBA and WNBA Board of Governors. &#032; <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=454951\" title=\"The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454954,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454951\/revisions\/454954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/454953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}