The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional basketball league in the United States. It is currently composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 22, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from May to September, with the All Star game being played midway through the season in July (except in Olympic years) and the WNBA Finals at the end of September until the beginning of October.
The league started with just 8 teams in 1997 and through the process of expansions, contractions and relocations, as of the 2021/2022 WBNA season the league consists of 12 teams that equally divided, make up the Eastern and Western conferences. The Eastern Conference consists of the Atlanta Dream, Chicago Sky, Conneticut Sun, Indiana Fever, New York Liberty and the Washington Mystics. The Western Conference consists of the Dallas Wings, Las Vegas Aces, Los Angeles Sparks, Minnesota Lynx, Phoenix Mercury and Seattle Storm.
