Unrivaled announces standout WNBA rookie as latest wildcard player

Cameron Brink is the latest WNBA star to join Unrivaled, the new 3-on-3 professional women’s basketball league. Brink, fresh off of a rookie season with the Los Angeles Sparks that was cut short due to an ACL tear, won’t play in the 2025 Unrivaled season but will join the Lunar Owls Club in 2026.

Unrivaled, co-founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, is set to tip off on January 17th in Miami. The league currently boasts stars like Angel Reese, Brittney Griner, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Satou Sabally, and dozens of others — both rookies like Rickea Jackson and Aaliyah Edwards, and more veteran players like Courtney Vandersloot and Skyler Diggins-Smith.

The Lunar Owls are headlined by Napheesa Collier, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Allisha Gray, Natasha Cloud, and Shakira Austin. They’ll be coached by DJ Sackmann, a world-renowned NBA skills coach.

Unrivaled promises an average salary of more than $220,000, will prioritize player development, and host games on Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays on TNT and TruTV.

“We are really changing the outlook of the ecosystem holistically,” said Alex Bazzell, Unrivaled’s president. “You’re seeing more leagues bumping up their pay because that’s where the space is now. We’re proud to play a part in that growth of just the economics of these players being paid a lot of money to play basketball. That’s where we want to get to. It’s great to have brand deals, it’s great to have all this off-court stuff, but at the end of the day, we want to be able to pay them high salaries on the court.”

In addition to higher salaries, the new offseason league has a major focus on player development. All six of Unrivaled’s head coaches — Nola Henry, Adam Harrington, DJ Sackmann, Andrew Wade, Teresa Weatherspoon, and Phil Handy — have a strong player development background, with Weatherspoon most recently serving as the head coach of the Chicago Sky and Handy serving as a longtime Los Angeles Lakers assistant.

“I’m pretty excited just to get the players in the market, and to get them under this facility, and having them improve, and getting the resources that I feel like they’ve always deserved for their offseasons — but have yet to really, truly experience from a player development side,” Bazzell said.

Two more Wildcard spots are available ahead of tip-off, which is exactly one month away.