(File Photo: Source for Photo: The WNBA logo and hoop are seen at a WNBA basketball game at Mohegan Sun Arena, Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/ Jessica Hill, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh made a push for an expansion team in Pittsburgh to join the WNBA, but it did not work out. The company started considering the idea in the fall of 2023 and paid out $90,000 for this Pittsburgh expansion team in the spring of 2024. The city of Philadelphia got an expansion team in the WNBA starting in 2030 on June 30th, 2025 during the most recent expansion of the professional basketball league for women.