Thu, Sept 19 - WNBA, Paralympic viewership data, NWSL Gotham FC

Some quick hits on the WNBA side: 1/ The WNBA announced its' newest franchise: Portland! We look forward to that expansion in 2026. 2/ A'ja Wilson just broke another (!!) record - the first player to score 1,000+ points in a season. WOW! 3/ We are just a day or two away from the WNBA playoff picture coming into focus. In the meantime, here's where you can see the postseason dates you'll need to pin to your calendar moving forward.

The viewership data is out from the Paralympics is out and it's amazing! Over a two-week span, the network averaged 1.2M viewers on NBC and Peacock, up 31% from Tokyo 2020. NBC, UK Channel 4, Toyota, and Google AI were at the forefront of that coverage support.

The NWSL's Gotham FC is set to make history as the first NWSL championship team to get invited to the White House following their 2023 1st place finish. The visit is scheduled for Monday, September 23rd and also serves as a celebration of NWSL's growth - for the first time in history the league just hit 1.5M regular season attendance fans through week 18 of the season. More here.