Unrivaled expanding roster to 36 before inaugural season [Video]

DES MOINES, Iowa — Unrivaled is already expanding its rosters before the inaugural season of the 3-on-3 women’s basketball league begins.

Co-founder Napheesa Collier announced on social media on Thursday the league will increase from 30 players to 36, allowing each team to have six players.

“We’re able to do this because we outperformed our financial projections, and so now we get to do something that we wanted to do in the future, which is give more people spots in Unrivaled,” Collier said in a social media video. “This is such an amazing time in women’s sports and we’re so thankful to all the positive people who have come out and supported us.”

Over the past few months Unrivaled has unveiled a roster full of WNBA talent through social media. Aliyah Boston of the …