WNBA players prepare to help Kamala Harris win 2024 election

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PARIS — A day after NBA star Stephen Curry vowed to do everything he can to help Vice President Kamala Harris become the next U.S. president, his WNBA colleagues said they too are excited to get to work.

Harris, a Bay Area native and former California attorney general, is a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination and is expected to officially become the party’s nominee when the Democratic National Convention begins on Aug. 19.

The WNBA has a long history of activism, culminating in 2020 when players ousted former Atlanta Dream owner Kelly Loeffler and flipped the U.S. Senate to the Democrats. After Loeffler criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, players organized to support Rev. Raphael Warnock and help him win. They plan to do the same to help Harris become the first woman president of the United States.

“She’s in my sorority, so I’m always on her side in that sense,” said forward A’ja Wilson, who, like Harris, is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. “This is a very, very big election.”

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Breanna Stewart, a member of the league’s social justice council, said players across the league — both those competing in the Paris Olympics this month and those not — have been communicating in group texts about plans. She stressed that the players are committed to “finding ways to support Kamara in any way we can.”