What if we told you … corona didn’t stop ball.
When the WNBA announced it would sequester its 2020 season at the IMG Academy wubble in Florida, much of the conversation centered on the unique and intriguing stories that would come out of said campus when the season concluded.
It appears that ESPN and the W have teamed up … and will be giving us what we want.
Hearing that the WNBA and ESPN will start production on a documentary in the #Wubble this weekend. 👀👀👀
— Khristina Williams (Founder, Girls Talk Sports TV) (@Khristina2334) August 13, 2020
My sources told me that the #WNBA has officially filed a trademark for “WUBBLE.” That could mean that there will be merch coming soon to go along with the documentary that has started production today.
— Khristina Williams (Founder, Girls Talk Sports TV) (@Khristina2334) August 15, 2020
According to the great Khristina Williams at GirlsTalkSports, ESPN has began production on a WNBA documentary about the 2020 season. She also reports there was a trademark filed for “wubble,” which more than likely centers around merchandising opportunities.
There were a myriad of stories that came from that season – injuries to Sabrina Ionescu (New York Liberty) and Chennedy Carter (Atlanta Dream), the initial reactions to the housing spaces in Florida, the backlash to Dream co-owner and Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler’s anti-Black Lives Matter stance (and support of one of her election opponents – Raphael Warnock) and the dominance of the Seattle Storm halfway en route to a fourth WNBA championship.
The doc also has an executive producer in Chiney Ogwumike, who notably did not go to the WNBA bubble, but does work with ESPN.
adding another title to my resume: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER 🙏🏿✨
the women of the W are dope and deserve to be recognized for all that they do, so now we have an ESPN Films documentary to show the world!
and we just gettin started… pic.twitter.com/rgaunfNah4
— Chiney Ogwumike (@chiney) January 19, 2021
If this doc is anything like The Last Dance….
