Unmatched — the brand new skilled ladies’s 3-on-3 basketball league launching subsequent week — has added one other spectacular companion to its assortment.
Samsung, one of many world’s largest expertise firms, will function its official expertise and presenting companion — which signifies that Unmatched will use all Samsung expertise to energy the league. That can equip its 36 gamers with new expertise — and produce greater than 600 hours of social content material for followers, together with pregame, postgame, and in-game content material.
Unmatched gamers will put on Samsung’s Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch to trace their coaching performances. That’s a part of the league’s promise to offer cutting-edge expertise and amenities. League co-founders Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart can even develop into Samsung Ambassadors.
“Samsung is a model that opens individuals as much as new and totally different experiences – breaking boundaries, redefining what’s doable by way of our expertise and celebrating differentiated human tales and factors of view,” mentioned Olga Suvorova, a vice chairman at Samsung’s advertising and marketing division. “That very same spirit lies on the coronary heart of Unmatched and its groundbreaking mission to actually change the sport for its gamers and followers.”
Samsung is Unmatched’s tenth introduced companion, becoming a member of Ally Monetary (official banking and founding companion); TNT Sports activities (unique media rights companion); VistaPrint (official print and design companion); State Farm (official house and auto insurance coverage sponsor); Ticketmaster (official ticketing companion); Wilson (official sport ball producer); Underneath Armour (official uniform companion and efficiency clothing store); Miller Lite (official beer companion); Mediapro North America (official manufacturing and internet hosting companion); and Sephora (official magnificence companion).
“We’re grateful for Samsung’s unimaginable help and deep understanding of Unmatched’s mission to ship the very best expertise for gamers and followers,” mentioned Alex Bazzell, Unmatched President. “Samsung is elevating Unmatched and empowering gamers in the best way we each imagine they deserve, and their partnership speaks volumes to the progressive imaginative and prescient for ladies’s basketball we’re creating collectively.”
Unmatched ideas off subsequent Friday, Jan. seventeenth in Miami, and can characteristic 36 WNBA stars from throughout the league — an inventory that features high-profile gamers like Sabrina Ionescu, Angel Reese, Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier, Brittney Griner, and dozens of others.
TNT Sports activities and Unmatched reached a multi-year media rights partnership to solely current stay sport protection on TNT and truTV – with all video games additionally being streamed on Max.
