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The WNBA will broadcast more than 50 games on Peacock this year as part of the new media rights deal, and the league is trusting an all-time great, the 2025 Rookie of the Year and the player responsible for one of the most thrilling moments in WNBA Finals history to promote this big change.
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During the 152nd Kentucky Derby, NBC aired a commercial to fuel excitement for this new era of the W. In the approximately 30-second advertisement, Saturday Night Live star Chloe Fineman gives a tour of the legendary broadcasting company to current stars and former No. 1 overall picks A’ja Wilson, Paige Bueckers and Sabrina Ionescu. The trio observes pictures of some of the most famous women to grace the network.
“Hard to believe she was a rookie once, too,” Bueckers said of Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson, who has been working in the Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department longer than the Dallas Wings pillar has been alive.
“These ladies changed the game, kinda like somebody else I know,” two-time WNBA Finals MVP and four-time regular season MVP A’ja Wilson remarked while looking at a photo of Weekend Update hosts-turned-sitcom stars Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Ionescu rounded out the references by paying homage to one of the most beloved Hollywood figures in the last 50 years.
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“Talk about a Hall of Fame career,” the 2024 champ and NBA All-Star Weekend trail blazer said while gazing at a portrait of former “Golden Girls” star Betty White. The theme song of that hit 1980s show, “Thank You for Being a Friend,” plays off the ad, but not before it is revealed that WNBA’s coverage on Peacock will commence on May 17.
The league will officially begin this partnership with a doubleheader that will pit Wilson’s reigning-champion Las Vegas Aces against the Atlanta Dream, before the Seattle Storm square off with Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever hours later.
Fresh off securing a landmark Collective Bargaining Agreement, the WNBA is hoping to join those aforementioned women in becoming an integral part of NBC/Peacock’s coverage.
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