Rapper Eminem set to make first foray into the world of sport

The WNBA’s expansion continues. The Golden State Valkyries are the latest team to join the league this season and in 2026, the Toronto Tempo along with an unnamed team based in Portland, Oregon will also start to participate in the WNBA. Now, there are also plans afoot to bring professional women’s basketball back to Detroit.

Sports business specialists Sportico, maintain that rapper Eminem has joined a group of Detroit business leaders seeking to bring the WNBA back to Motown with other members of the consortium including Tom Gores, president of the NBA’s Detroit Pistons and team legend Grant Hill; Sheila Ford Hamp, owner of the NFL’s Detroit Lions along with franchise quarterback Jared Goff.

There are several cities looking to get in on the action with applications for an expansion franchise hailing from the likes of: Austin, Charlotte, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Nashville, and Philadelphia.

The death of Detroit Shock

A year after the WNBA was founded in 1998, the league decided to add more teams with the Detroit team being called Shock. Nancy Lieberman was the team’s first head coach, and the team reached the Eastern Conference semifinals in her second year.

Success was slow in coming but eventually former Pistons player Bill Laimbeer in his capacity as head coach steered the team to the first of three WNBA championships in 2003. Unfortunately, the franchise moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2009 and since 2016, the Dallas Wings have taken their place in the league.

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