"No city is more prepared to embrace the team as a community asset that drives unity and common ground." The Detroit Shock were one of the WNBA's first expansion teams, winning three titles ...

Noa Dalzell is a senior writer covering the WNBA and all of women's basketball for Breakaway, SB Nation's women's sports vertical, as well as the Celtics for CelticsBlog. WNBA legend Candace ...

"No city is more prepared to embrace the team as a community asset that drives unity and common ground." The Detroit Shock were one of the WNBA's first expansion teams, winning three titles ...

"No city is more prepared to embrace the team as a community asset that drives unity and common ground." The Detroit Shock were ... would also be used for youth basketball.

As cities across the country vie for the next Women’s National Basketball Association team, the league quietly filed a trademark application this week for the name “Detroit Shock.” ...

“No city is more prepared to embrace the team as a community asset that drives unity and common ground.” The Detroit Shock were one of the WNBA’s first expansion teams, winning three titles ...

The WNBA is expanding. And the Detroit Pistons want to be part of it. The Pistons became one of a handful of groups this week to file bids for the WNBA's 16th team. But why is the WNBA — which ...

Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff and his wife Christen are part of an investment group that made a formal bid to bring a WNBA team back to Detroit. Pistons owner Tom Gores submitted the bid ...

That bid is led by Detroit billionaire Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and his Rock Entertainment Group. Locally, basketball fans supported a women's pro team in the past.

The Detroit Shock was one of the first expansion teams after the women's basketball league was established in 1996. In its 12-year existence, the Shock captured three WNBA titles and was in the ...