In 2023, over ** percent of players in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) were black or African American. Meanwhile, just *** percent of players in the league identified as Asian.

According to a January 2025 survey, **** percent of WNBA fans in the United States were female. Meanwhile, the same survey revealed that the largest ethnic group among the WNBA's fanbase was *********.

In a survey conducted in March 2023 in the United States, ** percent of Black respondents were casual fans of the WNBA. Since its inception in 1997, the Women’s National Basketball Association has forged a strong fanbase both in the United States as well as abroad. Individuals aged between 18 and 34 make up the highest share of avid and casual fans, compared to the ** to ** age group, for instance, in which ** percent of survey participants indicated that they were not a fan of the professional sports league. Additionally, when it came to the level of interest in the WNBA by gender, the WNBA was found to be more popular amongst males than females, with ** percent of the former indicating they were avid fans of the league whereas just **** percent of females indicated the same.

In a January 2025 survey, it was revealed that 25.8 percent of WNBA fans in the United States were aged between 35 and 49-years-old. This made it the age group with the highest proportion of WNBA fans. Meanwhile, only 6.2 percent were aged 13 to 17-years-old.

The WNBA is an American professional women's basketball league established in 1996 and owned by the NBA. The regular season takes place in summer from May to August and the play-offs in September. In a survey conducted in April 2024 in the United States, it was found that around half of the league's fans were aged between 18 and 34 years old.

The 2024 Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) regular season games were watched by an average of ******* viewers across media platforms in the United States. This was a significant increase from the previous year and made the **** season the league’s highest-viewed regular season in the last 24 years.

Founded in 1996, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional basketball league composed of 12 teams from the United States. The Indiana Fever registered the highest average attendance across the 2023 season with 17,036. That season, the Fever secured the services of college basketball sensation Caitlin Clark, who went on to break a series of rookie and all-time records. One such record was the number of assists made in a single WNBA game. Player salaries in the WNBA Jackie Young of the Las Vegas Aces was the highest earner in the WNBA in the 2024 season, having earned an annual salary of 252 thousand U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, looking at the average annual salaries in the WNBA vs. the NBA, the average WNBA player took home around 120 thousand U.S. dollars at the end of the year, which was nearly 100 times lower than the average NBA player salary. WNBA league records Since the opening season in 1997, former and current WNBA players have been setting high standards and surpassing old ones throughout the course of the competition. Sue Bird was the career games leader of the WNBA, having played 580 professional games prior to her retirement in 2022. Meanwhile, the WNBA's all-time scoring leader was Diana Taurasi, who began her career with the Phoenix Mercury in 2004. Overall, three WNBA teams held the record for most WNBA championships during the history of the league, all winning four championships apiece.

During the 2024 regular season, the average attendance at Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) games rose to *****. This marked not only an increase over the previous two years, but the highest average attendance since the 1999 season. Similarly, average TV viewership of the WNBA has also grown, having reached around ******* per game in 2023, which was over double the figures from 2016 to 2021.

In 2025, the TV audience for the Women's National Basketball Association's (WNBA) Draft stood at **** million viewers. Shown on ESPN for the sixth year running, the 2025 Draft had a viewership nearly **** the size of the previous year's broadcast, with interest in the No.1 overall pick Caitlin Clark proving a massive draw that year. First held in 1997, the WNBA Draft is an annual pre-season event through which teams in the league select new recruits from a pool of college and professional women's basketball players.

Established in 1996 and owned by the NBA, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional women's basketball league in the United States. The regular season takes place in summer from May to August and the play-offs in September. In 2023, nearly percent of employees in the WNBA's League Office were female, compared to 100 percent in 2009.

The WNBA is an American professional women's basketball league established in 1996 and owned by the NBA. The regular season takes place in summer from May to August and the play-offs in September. Public interest in the league has grown steadily in the United States in recent years, with 27 percent of the general population familiar with basketball registering an interest in 2024.

The National Basketball Association has one of the highest percentages of African American players from the big four professional sports leagues in North America. In 2023, approximately **** percent of NBA players were African American. Meanwhile, ethnically white players constituted a **** percent share of all NBA players that year. After the WNBA and NBA, the National Football League had the largest share of African Americans in a professional sports league in North America. How do other roles in the NBA compare? When it comes to African American representation in the NBA, no other role in the NBA is as well represented by African Americans as players. Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the scale, less than **** percent of team governors in the NBA were African American in 2023. During the 2022/23 season, the role with the second-highest share of African Americans was head coach, with a share of ** percent. That season, the number of African American head coaches in the NBA exceeded the number of white head coaches for the first time. African Americans in the NFL In 2022, the greatest share of players by ethnicity in the NFL were African American, with more than half of all NFL players falling within this group. The representation of African Americans in American Football extended beyond the playing field, with **** percent of NFL assistant coaches being African American in 2022 as well. However, positions such as vice presidents and head coaches were less representative of the African American population, as less than ** percent of the individuals fulfilling these roles in 2022 were African American.

As of May 2025, the all-time most viewed regular season game in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was the 2000 Memorial Day game between the Houston Comets and the New York Liberty. In total, the average viewership on NBC stood at **** million viewers. A 2025 game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky came close to breaking this, with *** million viewers tuning in to see Caitlin Clark face off against Angel Reese.

In 2023, the professional women's basketball league in the United States - the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) - generated an estimated 200 million U.S. dollars in revenue. This was an increase of over 200 percent from the previous year.

As of March 2025, ** percent of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) was owned by WNBA franchises. Meanwhile, the National Basketball Association (NBA) also held a ** percent stake in the league.

College women's basketball in the United States is seen as the final step up before the WNBA. The college basketball season culminates in the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament held every March, also known as March Madness. In a survey conducted in March 2025 in the United States, around five percent of male respondents stated that college women's basketball was one of their top interests.

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) All-Star Game drew an attendance of 16,407 in the 2024 season. This was the highest it had been since 2007 when over 19 thousand were in attendance. Breaking with tradition, the 2024 fixture was a match-up between the WNBA All-Stars and the U.S. Women's Olympic team, with All-Star Games usually not being held in years coinciding with the Summer Olympics. The game ended with the All-Stars beating the Olympians 117-109, with Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale being named MVP after scoring 21 points in a single quarter.

For the 2025 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the base salary of the top four rookie picks was set at close to ****** U.S. dollars. For rookies drafted in 2025, this figure was to rise to ****** U.S. dollars by 2027 and, in the case of the contract being extended, ******* U.S. dollars by 2027. During the 2025 WNBA draft, Paige Bueckers was the number one overall pick. Player salaries in the WNBA are determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), which is negotiated between the league and the players union, known officially as the Women's National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA).

In 2025, the salary cap for the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) stood at just over *** million U.S. dollars. The cap has increased steadily since 2017, with the largest jump coming in 2020.

Basketball is a commonly watched sport both in the United States and worldwide. The WNBA is an American professional women's basketball league established in 1996 and owned by the NBA. The regular season takes place in summer from May to August and the play-offs in September. WNBA has gained significant popularity over the years, which has increased its fan base and number of followers worldwide. In 2019, the Minnesota Lynx had around 328.26 thousand followers on social media channels.