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Women's National Basketball Association came to be years after the NBA; National Basketball Association, both similar and different in there own ways. After decades of debating whether to have woman playing basketball, in 1996 it came to be. Los Angeles hosted the first official game; “The first WNBA game featured the New York Liberty facing the Los Angeles Sparks in Los Angeles. The game was televised nationally in the United States on the NBC television network.” (History, League Founded and Play Begins) But although, the WNBA was a big step for basketball professional women players it still has set regulations, comparisons to the NBA, and a bigger purpose then just

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