This winter will see the debut of a new organization that hopes to provide women’s basketball players another opportunity to make the WNBA.
The Women’s Minor League Basketball Association (WMLBA) will have free agent camps taking place in eight cities starting on June 18. One of the cities where the camps will take place is Houston, where the WMLBA is based, and which will be the home of one of the league’s eight teams.
Space City, of course, was once the home of a WNBA team—the Houston Comets.
Camps will also take place in Phoenix, Orlando, Dallas, Atlanta, Raleigh, San Antonio, and Washington, D.C., per its website.
There will also be a Get Fit Kids camp in July in Houston that will be hosted by WMLBA Deputy Commissioner Janell Burse, who played for the Seattle Storm during its 2004 championship season.
According to the WMLBA’s website, its inaugural season is slated to tip off October of this year.
The website lists eight teams in the WMLBA—the Atlanta Breeze, the San Antonio Troopers, the D.C. Bounce, the Nashville Charge, the Houston Galaxy, the NC Flex, the Orlando Edge, and the Dallas Lightning.
The league’s president is listed as Kre’Tonia Morgan, a graduate of Texas Southern University who is the head of her own public relations firm.
By: Akiem Bailum (@AkiemBailum on Twitter, Instagram)
