For most WNBA players the W is the summer job. The salary chasm sends them to Spain, France, Turkey, Italy, Australia, Korea, Brazil, and the Czech Republic for the rest of the year — where the top contracts can pay 10x a WNBA max. Coverage here when WNBA names are on the rosters.
The top European league for paid talent. Avenida, Valencia, Casademont Zaragoza are the perennial powers. Where most American mid-career WNBA names land.
French top flight. ASVEL Féminin (Tony Parker’s club), Bourges, Villeneuve d’Ascq lead the table most years.
Highest-paying league in the world for women. Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş write the biggest checks.
Schio, Venezia, Sesto San Giovanni at the top of the table. Italian league has produced more WNBA-MVP-caliber off-season runs than any other.
Counter-cycle to the WNBA — their season runs Aussie-summer (our winter). Where Sami Whitcomb, Ezi Magbegor, and other Aussies of the W go home.
Six-team league, two-foreign-import limit. Reliable mid-tier paycheck for WNBA backups.
Sesi Araraquara, Sampaio Basquete the recent powers. Has produced WNBA breakouts (Erika de Souza, Damiris Dantas).
USK Praha is the club, the rest is parity. Eurobasket and EuroLeague bids run through here.
Coverage scales to U.S. attention — we focus on the rosters with WNBA names on them. Transfer windows (especially August + January) get news posts; deep-dives on EuroLeague Women playoffs in March.