It is a professional women's basketball league sponsored by American NBA, which was founded in 1996. This is very similar to the National Basketball Association (NBA). WNBA held its first session in 1997, with regular season from May to August and playoffs in September.

Most WNBA teams have an NBA team in the same city and use the same venue of the NBA team in the same city. Only Connecticut sunshine, no NBA team is in the same city. As of the 2008 season, Chicago Sky and Houston Comets are one of the few WNBA teams that don't use the same venue as any NBA team. In addition, Atlanta Dream Team, Chicago Sky, Connecticut Sunshine, Houston Comet, Los Angeles Spark, Phoenix Mercury, Seattle Storm and Washington Mystery Man all operate independently.

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On April 24th, 1996, a women's professional basketball league with the slogan "We Got Next" was born in North America. As a subsidiary of NBA, WNBA is headquartered in new york, and most of its directors have worked in NBA.

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The first season of WNBA was in the summer of 1997. As a result, many firsts were born one after another: Fan Aimin, the first president of ——WNBA; Cheryl swope-the first ——WNBA signing player; Cynthia cooper-the first MVP；; Comet Houston-the first champion team; Lisa Leslie-the first player to win the regular season MVP, the All-Star Game MVP and the Finals MVP in a single season.

1July, 99914th, new york Madison square garden, the first all-star game of WNBA blew the whistle in front of 18649 audience, and sportsmanship, teamwork and fanaticism became the characteristics of WNBA.