“I see it growing, the excitement, the accessibility, the expressiveness,” she said. So we want to build on this momentum and continue to watch it grow and rise. ”
And her momentum is not slowing down. During the WNBA offseason, the Buccaneers will compete in the second season of Unrivaled, a 3-on-3 basketball league. Furthermore, she The team looks ahead to the upcoming WNBA season and changes within the Dallas Wings organization, including the appointment of new head coach Jose Fernandez, a close friend of Buccaneers’ former college union coach Geno Auriemma.
“I feel like the foundation that we laid last year and the culture that we want to put out there, the people that we want to put in the building and the people that we want to build with, continues to grow,” Bakkers reflected. “I feel like there was a lot of new stuff last year. There’s going to be some new stuff this year. So it’s going to be a lot easier to continue the way we do it together rather than trying to figure it out individually.”
The next season of WBNA will arrive on USA Network in May 2026.
(E! and USA Network are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
