Unrivaled Announces Captains for Basketball Clubs

The women’s basketball community is now about six weeks away from the start of Unrivaled, the 3×3 women’s basketball league whose having its inaugural season begin in Miami, Florida, on January 17.

Given the star-studded roster that Unrivaled currently boasts (which is now unfortunately without Las Vegas Aces superstar Kelsey Plum), there will surely be a ton of eyes and attention on this brand-new 3×3 league.

In November, the rosters for all six teams (Laces Basketball Club, Mist Basketball Club, Phantom Basketball Club, Lunar Owls Basketball Club, Rose Basketball Club, and Vinyl Basketball Club) were revealed, and there were some fascinating pairings of star players.

Given that almost every player in Unrivaled is among one of the best players and primary leaders in their respective WNBA squads, seeing who would emerge as a leader within each Unrivaled team was an added bit of intrigue.

And fans received an answer to this intrigue on Wednesday, as the six captains for the six Unrivaled teams were announced.

USA Today’s Meghan L. Hall wrote on X, “Unrivaled announced team captains today:

“Rose BC – Chelsea Gray
“Mist BC – Breanna Stewart
“Laces BC – Alyssa Thomas
“Phantom BC – Satou Sabally
“Vinyl BC – Arike Ogunbowale
“Lunar Owls BC – Napheesa Collier”.

Most of these captains aren’t very surprising. Collier and Stewart were destined to be captains because they’re Unrivaled co-founders and Alyssa Thomas. Chelsea Gray, and Arike Ogunbowale are all seen as leaders on their WNBA teams.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is Satou Sabally being deemed captain of Phantom BC, which is only surprising because she’s 26 years old and veterans Tiffany Hayes, Brittney Griner, and Jackie Young are also on the team.

Time will tell what roles these captains will have once Unrivaled begins games.