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Todd Warshaw/Allsport By Aley Arion ·Updated April 27, 2022
This week marks the 26th anniversary of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), America’s first all-women’s basketball league.
Created by the National Basketball Association (NBA) Board of Governors on April 24, 1996 as a counterpart to the NBA, women’s basketball officially pulled up to the court to declare “We Got Next” as they entered a traditionally male-dominated arena.
During the 1996 Summer
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