Like their NBA colleagues, WNBA players will head to Central Florida next month to play an abbreviated 22-game season, then move on to crowning a champion for the 2020 season, commissioner Kathy Engelbert announced Monday.
The league is finalizing an agreement with IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, 100 miles southwest of the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World, where the NBA is playing. IMG will host all the games, including a postseason in October.
Unlike the NBA, the WNBA put the agreement to a vote of all the players. ESPN reports 77 percent of the union members voted for the arrangement.