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WNBA Basketball Facts

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Women’s Basketball - Important Facts

• The WNBA has been professionally active for eleven years being its first official season in 1997.
  


• Amongst some of the most accomplished WNBA players we can mention: Vickie Johnson, Mwadi Mabika, Tina Thompson, and Tamecka Dixon.
  


• As the Female basketball association continues to grow there is more TV coverage for the regular season games and as of the 2009 season two more channels will be included to broadcast the weekly games.
  


• Donna Orender is the WNBA sports executive and current president.
  


• Throughout the WNBA history there have been a total of 18 teams participating in the league of which these four are not active:  Miami Sol (2000-2002), Portland Fire (2000-2002), Cleveland Rockers (1997-2003), and the Charlotte Sting (1997-2006).
  


• The standard WNBA rules are basically those used in the NBA as well as the European Leagues Championship known as the FIBA.
  


• A WNBA game is made of four quarters of ten minutes duration each.