{"id":1427,"date":"2025-06-02T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-06-02T21:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:48:25","slug":"wba-and-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"WBA and WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am <strong>Lightning N Mitchell<\/strong>, the founder of the\u00a0(<strong>WBA<\/strong>) <strong>Women\u2019s Basketball Association<\/strong> forerunners of the\u00a0<strong>WNBA<\/strong>.\u00a0 Women&#8217;s Basketball Association was created here in Kansas City Mo and it ran from <strong>1993<\/strong> to <strong>1995<\/strong>.\u00a0 The foundation of the <strong>WBA<\/strong> was laid here in Kansas City. It was the first ever spring and summer women&#8217;s professional basketball league in the United States.\u00a0 This is a powerful story of how <strong>God<\/strong> took a shooting star and a simple man to bring about the\u00a0<strong>WNBA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shooting Star Trailer V12 BW\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3s58DbC9VOI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Lightning N Mitchell, the founder of the\u00a0(WBA) Women\u2019s Basketball Association forerunners of the\u00a0WNBA.\u00a0 Women&#8217;s Basketball Association was created &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"small radius button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/?p=1427\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbathevision.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}