Unequalled, the home girls’s league based by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, is taking its present on the street for the primary time.
After every week of saying additions to its second season of play, Unequalled added a complete metropolis to its roster on Thursday.
The home three-on-three group co-founded by WNBA superstars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart will formally play street video games for the primary time. The league introduced that its doubleheader on January 30 can be staged on the Xfinity Cellular Enviornment (previously often called the Wells Fargo Heart) in Philadelphia, quite than its traditional residence in Miami.
“Philadelphia is the town of firsts, so it makes good sense that the Unequalled League picked our historic metropolis, with unmatched sports activities fans, as its first tour cease,” Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker stated in an announcement from the league. “We’re excited to kick off our 2026 celebrations by first welcoming this league of girls that continues to blaze trails of progress in sports activities, in addition to investments off the court docket.”
The occasion can be often called “Philly is Unequalled” and is a part of the league’s ongoing partnerships with Xfinity and the “Philly Sisters,” a girls’s sports activities advocacy and consciousness group co-founded by comedienne and Unequalled investor Wanda Sykes and her spouse, Alex. The 4 groups that partake within the showcase can be revealed when the total season two schedule is uncovered in November.
Unequalled Expands to Eight Groups for Second Season
Rosters for Unequalled’s eight groups (two greater than the six launched in final winter’s debut) have but to be revealed. However it stands to motive that no less than one of many video games will embody Stewart’s New York Liberty teammate Natasha Cloud, a Philadelphia native and St. Joseph’s alumna who performed for Phantom BC final time round. Villanova alumna Maddie Siegrist also needs to be an attraction, as her alma mater’s males’s program makes use of Xfinity Cellular gArena as a website for its greater video games.
@T_Cloud4 in her residence city 🖤 pic.twitter.com/V4nIsSNTSC
— Unequalled Basketball (@Unrivaledwbb) October 2, 2025
Unequalled’s descent would be the first from {of professional} girls’s basketball in The Birthplace of America since 1998, when the Philadelphia Rage performed within the American Basketball League. Notable alumnae from that squad embody six-time WNBA All-Star/two-time champion Taj McWilliams and Philadelphia-born Corridor-of-Famer Daybreak Staley, now the top coach of the ladies’s program on the College of South Carolina.
The second season of Unequalled will tip off on Jan. 5 in Miami. It would as soon as once more be broadcast on the networks of TNT Sports activities, together with TNT, TruTV, and HBO Max.
Geoff Magliocchetti is on X @GeoffJMags
