New WNBL season sees Tasmania Jewels, Chinese and WNBA stars on show
- Thursday night will mark the start of the second season of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) under new, private ownership, with the league hoping to build on some of the gains made.
- Last season, crowd figures were up 43 per cent, and broadcast reach 130 per cent, but that did not stop the league making its CEO Jennie Sager redundant, in a restructure it said would bring the men's and women's codes under one umbrella.
- Sager later called the decision "genuinely disappointing", arguing that "women's sport leagues are strongest when they have dedicated leadership and a staff that wakes u
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- Thursday night will mark the start of the second season of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) under new, private ownership, with the league hoping to build on some of the gains made.
- Last season, crowd figures were up 43 per cent, and broadcast reach 130 per cent, but that did not stop the league making its CEO Jennie Sager redundant, in a restructure it said would bring the men's and women's codes under one umbrella.
- Sager later called the decision "genuinely disappointing", arguing that "women's sport leagues are strongest when they have dedicated leadership and a staff that wakes u
Sources: ABC Australia