{"id":359580,"date":"2025-11-06T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359580\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:32:15","slug":"hailey-van-lith-5-other-wnba-players-will-join-unrivaleds-development-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359580\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailey Van Lith, 5 other WNBA players will join Unrivaled\u2019s development pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/wnba\/1088160\/unrivaled-players-new-additions-returners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unrivaled<\/a> is set to tip off in January, and 48 WNBA players will lace up to compete in the professional 3-on-3 women\u2019s basketball league. That star-studded list includes co-founders Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, as well as All-WNBA players like Kelsey Mitchell, Paige Bueckers, Alyssa Thomas, and Jackie Young, among other top performers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This year, in addition to the 48 rostered players, Unrivaled will also maintain a development pool of players who are ready to drop in to any club on short notice, when injuries occur. These players will have access to facilities and training like everyone else, but won\u2019t officially be on one club all year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Wednesday evening, the league announced that those players are: Chicago Sky guard Hailey Van Lith, Dallas Wings guards Aziaha James and Haley Jones, Washington Mystics forward Emily Engstler, Golden State Valkyries forward Laeticia Amihere, and Indiana Fever center Makayla Timpson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All six players are 25 or younger, and all are WNBA bench players. Three (Van Lith, James, and Timpson) are WNBA rookies. Here\u2019s what each produced last season:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">These six players will all shuffle into various Unrivaled clubs and jump in when clubs are short-handed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last year, in its inaugural season, Unrivaled didn\u2019t have a development pool program. So, when injuries mounted, players like Natisha Hiedeman and Naz Hillmon filled in and ultimately played critical roles on their rosters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But those players didn\u2019t have solidified roster spots, nor the same stability as the rest of the league\u2019s players. That will change in the league\u2019s second season.<\/p>\n<p>Unrivaled also announced its full list of teams<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In addition to announcing the league\u2019s full list of development players, Unrivaled unveiled its 8 club rosters. The Breeze and Hive mark brand-new teams, but the remaining 6 teams are running it back with some changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The league will tip off on January on TNT Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrivaled is set to tip off in January, and 48 WNBA players will lace up to compete in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-359580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115502300940193820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}