The WNBA may be the top women’s basketball league, but the upcoming Unrivaled league is expected to give the best players a shot to earn some major money during the offseason by competing with and against each other. According to Napheesa Collier, Unrivaled’s one-vs-one tournament will offer a big prize.
While Unrivaled will be a three-vs-three basketball league with six teams and 30 players in total, a one-vs-one tournament will be held, pitting the league’s best players against each other in the most direct way. Collier, one of the co-founders of Unrivaled, answered a few questions about the league on social media this week, including sharing more details about the upcoming one-vs-one tournament in February.
“So it’s a single elimination tournament to determine the best 1v1 player in the world,” Collier wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “And I’m ACTUALLY not supposed to say this but…first place gets minimum $250k.”
A prize of $250,000 would be a significant amount for WNBA players, as the league’s maximum salary is $241,984. Unrivaled has marketed itself as having the highest average salaries in women’s sports history and offering equity ownership to all 30 initial players.
Unrivaled basketball league players list
Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, both WNBA players, founded Unrivaled, which will kick off in Miami in January. The two are part of the initial list of 10 players announced for the league.
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Here is the current list of players who have been revealed:
- Breanna Stewart (New York Liberty)
- Napheesa Collier (Minnesota Lynx)
- Chelsea Gray (Las Vegas Aces)
- Arike Ogunbowale (Dallas Wings)
- Jewell Loyd (Seattle Storm)
- Kelsey Plum (Las Vegas Aces)
- Rhyne Howard (Atlanta Dream)
- Kahleah Copper (Phoenix Mercury)
- Jackie Young (Las Vegas Aces)
- Angel Reese (Chicago Sky)
Two-thirds of the league’s players are yet to be announced, and the inaugural season is set to start in January.
