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Also Known As WNBA
Date 1997 - present
Areas Of Involvement basketball • professionalism
Related People Carol Blazejowski • Cynthia Cooper-Dyke • Teresa Edwards • Chamique Holdsclaw • Angel Reese • Sabrina Ionescu

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