Cameron Brink is the most recent WNBA star to affix Unmatched, the brand new 3-on-3 skilled girls’s basketball league. Brink, contemporary off of a rookie season with the Los Angeles Sparks that was minimize brief because of an ACL tear, gained’t play within the 2025 Unmatched season however will be a part of the Lunar Owls Membership in 2026.
Unmatched, co-founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, is ready to tip off on January seventeenth in Miami. The league at the moment boasts stars like Angel Reese, Brittney Griner, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Satou Sabally, and dozens of others — each rookies like Rickea Jackson and Aaliyah Edwards, and extra veteran gamers like Courtney Vandersloot and Skyler Diggins-Smith.
The Lunar Owls are headlined by Napheesa Collier, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Allisha Grey, Natasha Cloud, and Shakira Austin. They’ll be coached by DJ Sackmann, a world-renowned NBA abilities coach.
Unmatched guarantees a mean wage of greater than $220,000, will prioritize participant growth, and host video games on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays on TNT and TruTV.
“We’re actually altering the outlook of the ecosystem holistically,” mentioned Alex Bazzell, Unmatched’s president. “You’re seeing extra leagues bumping up their pay as a result of that’s the place the house is now. We’re proud to play a component in that development of simply the economics of those gamers being paid some huge cash to play basketball. That’s the place we need to get to. It’s nice to have model offers, it’s nice to have all this off-court stuff, however on the finish of the day, we wish to have the ability to pay them excessive salaries on the courtroom.”
Along with larger salaries, the brand new offseason league has a significant concentrate on participant growth. All six of Unmatched’s head coaches — Nola Henry, Adam Harrington, DJ Sackmann, Andrew Wade, Teresa Weatherspoon, and Phil Useful — have a powerful participant growth background, with Weatherspoon most lately serving as the top coach of the Chicago Sky and Useful serving as a longtime Los Angeles Lakers assistant.
“I’m fairly excited simply to get the gamers available in the market, and to get them underneath this facility, and having them enhance, and getting the assets that I really feel like they’ve at all times deserved for his or her offseasons — however have but to actually, actually expertise from a participant growth aspect,” Bazzell mentioned.
Right here’s a full checklist of confirmed Unmatched gamers:
Aaliyah Edwards (Mystics)
Alyssa Thomas (Solar)
Aliyah Boston (Fever)
Allisha Grey (Dream)
Angel Reese (Sky)
Arike Ogunbowale (Wings)
Azura Stevens (Sparks)
Breanna Stewart (Liberty)
Brittney Sykes (Mystics)
Brittney Griner (Mercury)
Cameron Brink (Sparks)
Chelsea Grey (Aces)
Courtney Vandersloot (Liberty)
Courtney Williams (Lynx)
Dearica Hamby (Sparks)
DiJonai Carrington (Solar)
Jackie Younger (Aces)
Jewell Loyd (Storm)
Jordin Canada (Dream)
Kahleah Copper (Mercury)
Kate Martin (Valkyries)
Kayla McBride (Lynx)
Lexie Hull (Fever)
Marina Mabrey (Solar)
Napheesa Collier (Lynx)
Natasha Cloud (Mercury)
Rae Burrell (Sparks)
Rhyne Howard (Dream)
Rickea Jackson (Sparks)
Satou Sabally (Wings)
Skylar Diggins-Smith (Storm)
Shakira Austin (Mystics)
Stefanie Dolson (Mystics)
Tiffany Hayes (Aces)
Two extra Wildcard spots can be found forward of tip-off, which is strictly one month away.
