Warner Bros Discovery’s TNT Sports on Wednesday signed a multiyear media-rights deal with Unrivaled, the newly formed 3-on-3 women’s pro basketball league that tips off next year featuring a slew of WNBA stars that will be coming off that league’s highest-profile season yet.
The agreement calls for 45 live regular-season matchups three nights a week in primetime across TNT (Mondays and Fridays) and its WBD sibling truTV on Saturdays.
All games to be streamed live on WBD’s Max. As part of the deal, TNT Sports will also invest in the league, which was founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart.
The inaugural season opens January 17. “Our TNT Sports portfolio centers on premium live sports and our media and equity partnership with Unrivaled deepens our commitment to further expanding the depth of top tier women’s sports programming we offer our fans and presents an opportunity for us to shape and amplify the continued growth of women’s basketball,” TNT Sports chairman and CEO Luis Silberwasser said today.
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