The 2026 WNBA playoffs begin on Sunday, following the league’s longest-ever regular season, one in which it felt like any team could win on any given night. (Except the Connecticut Sun.) As an ethical...

For a brief period two decades ago, Miami was an amazing place to be a fan of women’s professional basketball. The team had a roster full of promise and reached the playoffs in their second season of ...

MAGA’s gender obsession infects the WNBA.

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...

One problem with women’s basketball’s recent forays into the mainstream is that I, proud sports iconoclast, must develop increasingly eclectic basketball tastes in response. In the same way a slang ph...

The Ringer WNBA Show · Episode

A fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film's actors and creators, its unexpected journey f...

In late 2020, months after the murder of George Floyd, our colleague Justin Ellis moved back to his hometown of Minneapolis to begin work on a book about black life in the city, where promises of raci...

After the Indiana Fever revoked my credentialed access, I want readers to understand what happened, why I stand by the reporting, and what it means for future coverage.

Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that launched in 2020. You can read about our origin story in the New York Times, the recent state of our business in our 2025 ...

Most “women’s sports novels” are really novels about girls. In them, girlhood is something mourned before it’s over. Like the games themselves, the books are set to ticking clocks. When the high schoo...

As Cardte Hicks leapt toward the hoop, the audience at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium suddenly hushed. These were the final minutes of the Women’s Professional Basketball League’s All-Star Game on F...

The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

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