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Here are the WAGs, HABs, and WNBA power couples you need to know.

December 2, 2025

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We all know love and basketball go hand-in-hand, especially in the WNBA. Very few leagues boast quite as many power couples as women’s basketball, which currently has multiple sets of partners playing for the same team (literally and figuratively).

For starters, The New York Liberty have Natasha Cloud and Isabelle Harrison, who shared a rom-com worthy moment during the 2025 All-Star Weekend. Then there’s the Phoenix Mercury, who made it all the way to this year’s championships with the help of fiancés Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner.

Of course, there are plenty of WAGs and HABs sitting courtside at WNBA games, but what remains pretty consistent is a shared love of basketball. That’s particularly true for the couples that met through the sport, like A’ja Wilson and her NBA boyfriend Bam Adebayo, who stirred up relationship rumors while repping Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. There’s also Napheesa Collier and husband Alex Bazzell, who co-founded the Unrivaled league together alongside Breanna Stewart, who met her wife, Marta Xargay Casademont, while playing overseas in 2018.

Keeping the focus on current WNBA players and their partners (sorry, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe), here are some confirmed relationships that women’s basketball fans should know about.

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The WNBA Needs Every One of These Faces

As the internet argued over the “face of the league,” the women of the WNBA were coming together to fight for fair pay and a say in their future. These five athletes—and 2025 Glamour Women of the Year—represent the real draw of the WNBA: its players.

• Stephen Gosling/Getty ImagesIsabelle Harrison (New York Liberty) and Natasha Cloud (New York Liberty)Harrison and Cloud were already together for four years when they were finally able to play for the same team during the 2025 season. Of course, their real rom-com moment occurred when Cloud won the Kia WNBA Skills Challenge during the 2025 All-Star Weekend—and ran straight to scoop up Harrison in her arms.“This is for our family,” Cloud told ESPN of the prize money (roughly $55,000). “This momma over here told me I better win today for a down payment on a house, so baby, you’re gonna get that house.”
• Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesPaige Bueckers (Dallas Wings) and Azzi Fudd (UConn)Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd were the subject of romance rumors throughout their time at UConn but waited to hard-launch their relationship during the 2025 All-Star Weekend amid Bueckers’ rookie season with the Dallas Wings.“She’s more outgoing; I’m quieter. She’s a little more feisty; I’m a little more calm and even-keeled,” Fudd told Glamour in September. “It’s not always natural, but we can adapt and be what the other person needs in that moment.”Now, fans are wondering if Fudd will join Bueckers’ team in June 2026, as the Dallas Wings have secured the first draft pick. Though Fudd told Glamour it’s a “win-win” either way, she doesn’t know how she’d play against her former teammate.“I would just mess with her, but at the same time, when you talk trash to her or mess with her, she gets in another zone and then there’s no stopping her,” Fudd said. “So I don’t know what I would do.”What does Bueckers have to say about that? “Well, first of all, she’s really not that good at talking trash, so I don’t think she’d have to worry about that,” Bueckers told Glamour in November. “She would say she would mess with me, but.… I would mess with her, and then she’d get annoyed and irritated. Yeah, we haven’t played against each other since high school, so I really don’t know how that will go.”

• Kate Frese/Getty ImagesAlyssa Thomas (Phoenix Mercury) and DeWanna Bonner (Phoenix Mercury)There’s no keeping Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner apart! The pair met while playing for the Connecticut Sun in 2020 and were engaged by June 2023. While the fiancés were scheduled to play for different teams in 2025—Thomas was traded to the Phoenix Mercury while Bonner joined the Indiana Fever—the separation didn’t stick.Bonner left the Fever after just nine games, reuniting with Thomas in Phoenix. The power couple ended up making it to the championships, though the Mercury ultimately lost to the Las Vegas Aces.In a joint interview with Essence in March, Bonner said Thomas helps with her “anxiety,” adding, “I’m a high-stress person—not just during the season but in general. I don’t like unknown things. I think she calms me down and reminds me that everything’s going to work out. And it always does.”In return, Thomas said of Bonner: “I always say she’s my conscience. During basketball season, I’m pretty intense and I want to win. She always talks with me, to make me think further about things I’ve said or done that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise thought twice about.”
• David Becker/Getty ImagesAllie Quigley (formerly of the Chicago Sky) and Courtney Vandersloot (Chicago Sky)According to People, these basketball wives kept their relationship quiet until announcing their nuptials in 2018. The rest of their love story is far from lowkey, as they became the first married couple to take home a championship trophy together with the Chicago Sky in 2021.In May 2025, the pair welcomed their first baby the same month Vandersloot surpassed her wife as the Sky’s all-time leading scorer. Vandersloot joked that Quigly was “a little happy, a little mad” in an Instagram Story before adding, “she will always be my number 1,” per People.
• Taylor HillMarta Xargay Casademont (formerly of the Phoenix Mercury) and Breanna Stewart (New York Liberty)Former professional basketball player Marta Xargay Casademont met her wife while they were both playing in Russia back in 2018. However, their relationship didn’t escalate until Stewart ruptured her Achilles tendon in April 2019.“I just remember like being in such a place where it was like, you know, something terrible happened, and then at the same time something amazing happened,” Stewart said in a short YouTube film from TOGETHXR x Bleacher Report, per People. “Those moments and memories were huge for kind of what helped blossom our relationship into what it is.”The same year the Spanish pro athlete retired from basketball, Stewart proposed—and the rest is basketball history. The duo now share two children, Ruby Mae and Theo Josep, who can often be seen sitting courtside with Casademont during Stewart’s games.

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• Elsa/Getty ImagesBrittney Griner (Atlanta Dream) and Cherelle GrinerBrittney Griner has been married to lawyer Cherelle Griner since 2019. Unfortunately, their love story took a traumatic turn when Griner was detained in Russia for 10 months on drug charges in 2022. Cherelle became her wife’s loudest advocate, speaking up for Brittney at every opportunity, including the 2022 Glamour Women of the Year awards ceremony, where she read a letter to her wife aloud.“Babe, I’m missing everything about you. Especially your friendship,” she said at the time. “I took for granted being able to talk with you. I catch myself picking up my phone, only to sit it back down because your voice is the only voice I want to hear. It’s giving, I’ll likely talk your ear off once you’re home,” she said. “I know your heart is heavy right now, babe. I wish you were here to feel all the love that surrounds you. You are not forgotten. So, keep your head up champ. This too shall pass! I love you and I cannot wait for the day that I get to embrace you! Love, Relle.”Years after her release in December 2022, Brittney discussed how her wife’s photo and letters helped her get through her imprisonment, telling People, “I’d lay there and look at her, talk to her as if she was sitting there. I’d reread her letters. [That love] got me through.”Griner reentered the WNBA in 2023 and the pair welcomed their son, Bash, in July 2024.
• Taylor HillNapheesa Collier (Minnesota Lynx) and Alex BazzellOkay, let’s talk HABs. Napheesa Collier and Alex Bazzell are a certified power couple, co-founding the Unrivaled 3×3 basketball league alongside Breanna Stewart in 2024—a league that’s now worth $340 million.Collier met the basketball skills coach while she was in high school, eventually training with him during the summers during her first two years at the University of Connecticut. She previously told Glamour that their relationship turned romantic during her junior year of college when he took a job with the New York Nets.“I was having a really bad season, so I was like, ‘You’re already in New York, can you come help me work out?’” Collier told Glamour of their love story. “The drive is, like, three hours, so he would stay for a little bit longer, we would go to dinner. We talked about the season, and then we kind of just progressed from there.”The pair married in October 2022 and welcomed their daughter, Mila, that May.
• Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesA’ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces) and Bam AdebayoRumors that the four-time WNBA MVP and Miami Heat player were dating began while they were repping Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. From that point on, the pair took any opportunity to hype each other up until there was no denying their romance. Of course, just as quickly as Wilson declared Adebayo her “boyfriend” during her South Carolina Hall of Fame speech in October, the engagement rumors started up.“In my eyes, he’s perfect,” Wilson said of Adebayo on Good Morning America this November. “He’s perfect. He can do no wrong. Obviously he’s human but the support that he gives always, it’s incredible to think that I’ve kind of met my match.”

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• Jim McIsaac/Getty ImagesCaitlin Clark (Indiana Fever) and Connor McCaffery2024 Rookie of the Year and Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has been with Connor McCaffery since their college days in Iowa. And while McCaffery can often be spotted sitting courtside at Indiana Fever games, Clark is equally supportive of his coaching career, having attended more than one Butler University game, where McCaffery works as an assistant coach for the men’s basketball team.“You have an incredible ability to inspire and lift up those around you, and I am lucky to learn from you every day,” McCaffrey wrote of Clark on her birthday this past January. Clark wrote that McCaffrey makes “everyday better” in her own birthday tribute this July, adding, “I couldn’t be more grateful.”
• Variety/Getty ImagesSabrina Ionescu (New York Liberty) and Hroniss GrasuBut what about non-basketball HABs? Okay, so Sabrina Ionescu’s husband is still an athlete—and a seriously talented offensive lineman for the Las Vegas Raiders at that—but at least football is a different sport! Sabrina Ionescu has been married to NFL player Hroniss Grasu since March 2024, though they first went Instagram official in 2021.Though the pair rarely discuss their relationship with the press, Ionescu posted a rare TikTok video about their engagement in 2013, revealing she thought she was on her way to a GQ photoshoot before he popped the question. “I was completely shocked and caught off guard because he played it off so well,” she said while narrating the video, which showed his romantic proposal in front of a giant heart-shaped floral arrangement surrounded by candles. “I really had no idea and I was just so happy.”

Emily Tannenbaum is a contributing editor for Glamour, covering Hollywood, television, movies, and culture. She’s been featured as an expert on BBC World News, while her profiles, reviews, and recaps have been published by Glamour, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, Variety, and IGN. You can find her on Instagram at @ectannenbaum. … Read More

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