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Two decades of the W

WNBA founders look back on the league they started 20 years ago, but continuing challenges draw attention as well.

A few hours before the WNBA’s tipoff on June 21, 1997, then-WNBA President Val Ackerman and former NBA Chief Marketing Officer Rick Welts ran into Jerry Buss, the owner of the NBA Lakers and WNBA Sparks. The scene was the Forum Club at the Great Western Forum, where both Hollywood g...

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