Unrivaled Season 3 Rosters Are Out: Bueckers Runs Breeze, Brink Joins the Hive

Unrivaled dropped its Season 3 rosters Wednesday night on Bleacher Report's live reveal show, and all 48 seats are filled. Eight clubs, six players apiece, no expansion this time — the same eight clubs that made Season 2 run it back, reshuffled and reloaded for a January 8 tip-off.

The coaches built these rosters the Unrivaled way: protect the players you can't lose, draft the rest, and let the league office keep the balance honest. It worked. Half the league is back with a club it already played for, and more than 75 percent of the players are on multiyear deals. By the league's count, the 48 carry 80 combined WNBA All-Star selections, 30 top-10 draft picks and four reigning WNBA champions — all of it chasing a $600,000 championship prize pool.

The headliners

Paige Bueckers still runs the Breeze. She and Dominique Malonga are back, Kahleah Copper arrives as the second star, and Kaitlyn Chen — Bueckers' old UConn running mate — makes her league debut on the same roster.

The Hive belongs to the new class. Olivia Miles, the league's unanimous Rookie of the Year, headlines the club, with Cameron Brink next to her and Sonia Citron back in the fold.

Laces landed the biggest newcomer name in the league. Gabby Williams — the 2026 WNBA Finals MVP — plays her first Unrivaled season next to Jackie Young.

And the founders hold their ground. Breanna Stewart anchors Mist, the defending champions. Napheesa Collier anchors the Lunar Owls. The two women who built this league are still the two names every other club has to go through.

Vinyl might be the most fun story of the night: Atlanta's core — Rhyne Howard, Allisha Gray and Jordin Canada — reunites days after losing the WNBA Finals in Game 7, and Flau'jae Johnson makes her Unrivaled debut on the same roster.

The rosters

Every club, every name, head coaches included.

Breeze BC — Head coach: Jarell Christian

• Paige Bueckers
• Kahleah Copper
• Dominique Malonga
• Kaitlyn Chen
• DiJonai Carrington
• Monique Billings

Christian, one of three first-year head coaches in the league, likes the mix: "Kaitlyn, DiJonai and Mo embody that team-first mentality," he said in the league's announcement, "and each brings something unique to the group."

Hive BC — Head coach: Barb Turner

• Olivia Miles
• Sonia Citron
• Cameron Brink
• Natisha Hiedeman
• Rae Burrell
• Naz Hillmon

Turner steps into her first Unrivaled season with speed everywhere. "What I'm most looking forward to," she said, "is building something together and getting this Hive buzzing in Miami."

Laces BC — Head coach: Andrew Wade

• Jackie Young
• Gabby Williams
• Jess Shepard
• Marine Johannès
• Maddy Siegrist
• Satou Sabally

Wade's backcourt is the selling point — "really dynamic guard play in Jackie, Gabby and Marine," as he put it — with Shepard, Sabally and Siegrist giving Laces size behind it.

Lunar Owls BC — Head coach: Pokey Chatman

• Courtney Williams
• Marina Mabrey
• Napheesa Collier
• Skylar Diggins
• Sydney Taylor
• Temi Fágbénlé

No club kept more of itself. Collier, Mabrey, Diggins and Fágbénlé all return, Courtney Williams is back with the Owls after playing for them in the league's first season, and Sydney Taylor is the lone newcomer.

Mist BC — Head coach: Zach O'Brien

• Veronica Burton
• Bridget Carleton
• Breanna Stewart
• Arike Ogunbowale
• Kiki Rice
• Izzy Harrison

The champions kept their spine — Burton, Stewart and Ogunbowale — and every addition is new to the league: Carleton, Rice and Harrison all play their first Unrivaled season on the team that owns the crown.

Phantom BC — Head coach: Roneeka Hodges

• Kelsey Plum
• Kayla McBride
• Aaliyah Edwards
• Natasha Cloud
• Tiffany Hayes
• Li Yueru

Phantom is the only club in the league without a single first-year Unrivaled player. Hodges, the league's reigning Coach of the Year, added McBride, Edwards and Yueru to a veteran core that already had Plum, Cloud and Hayes.

Rose BC — Head coach: Nola Henry

• Chelsea Gray
• Brittney Sykes
• Shakira Austin
• Aziaha James
• Lexie Hull
• Kayla Thornton

Gray, the reigning league MVP, runs Rose again with Austin and Hull back beside her. Thornton is the roster's only Unrivaled newcomer.

Vinyl BC — Head coach: Teresa Weatherspoon

• Allisha Gray
• Rhyne Howard
• Dearica Hamby
• Jordin Canada
• Flau'jae Johnson
• Aneesah Morrow

Howard and Hamby are the Vinyl holdovers. Allisha Gray crosses over from champion Mist to complete the Atlanta reunion, and Johnson and Morrow give the club two of the league's most-watched debuts.

Season 3, the shape of it

It's still the Unrivaled formula — 3-on-3 on a compressed full court, built for pace — but this season it travels. Season 3 tips off January 8, 2027, with opening night split between TD Garden in Boston and the Intuit Dome in Inglewood. From there the tour rolls: Detroit and San Francisco on January 11, Brooklyn on January 22, Minneapolis on January 24, Houston on February 12 and Philadelphia on February 15, with Miami's Sephora Arena as the home base between stops. The regular season runs through March 5, games air on TNT, truTV and HBO Max, and the matchups for the announced dates drop Friday, November 6.

Two months left to argue about the rosters. Breeze has the name at the top. Mist has the crown. January settles it.