OWNERSHIP GROUP + AMBASSADORChamique Holdsclaw
The former No. 1 WNBA Draft pick, six-time WNBA All-Star, Olympic gold medalist and 2026 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee now adds league ownership to her basketball résumé.
SEASON WINDOWUPSHOT yearbooks
2026 CHAMPION · FINALCharlotte Crown 81 · Jacksonville Waves 76
Deja Kelly · Championship MVP · 29 points
LEAGUE PULSE
The first UPSHOT season is officially in the books.
UPSHOT is an independent professional women’s basketball league. This hub keeps its inaugural season as a complete record: Charlotte's title, the regular-season table, team context, final honors, the pipeline to the W and the six-franchise map for 2027.
LIVE STATS, UPSHOT EDITION
Final 2026 Regular-Season Standings
Full table treatment with record, splits, form, scoring and point differential.
Championship qualifier Regular season complete
PLAYER STAT DASHBOARD · UPSHOT 2026
The inaugural player board, with receipts attached.
Search and compare verified player stat lines from the regular season, award announcements and WNBA call-up snapshots. Missing public figures stay blank instead of being estimated.
THE COMPLETE LEAGUE MAP
Four founding clubs. Two announced expansion franchises.
Open each 2026 team room, then meet Baltimore and Nashville, the two announced franchises that grow UPSHOT to six teams in May 2027.
2027 EXPANSIONAll six announced franchises
OWNERSHIP + AMBASSADORSHIP
Chamique Holdsclaw joins the table.
UPSHOT announced on Sept. 21, 2026 that Holdsclaw joined the league as an investor, bringing a Hall of Fame player perspective into the ownership group as the league prepares for its six-team 2027 season.
THE STAT KITCHEN · UPSHOT
Who was cooking?
Switch the burner to rank all four teams by win percentage, scoring, defense, point differential or last-ten form.
Team metrics come from the final regular-season standings. Lower opponent PPG is better; all other displayed categories rank high to low.
SCOREBOARD
The first title game is final.
Charlotte's 81-76 championship comeback leads the completed scoreboard, followed by the games that closed the regular season.
INAUGURAL SEASON HONORS
The first names in the UPSHOT award book.
Ariel Hearn takes league MVP, Schaquilla Nunn anchors the defense, Taylor Soule owns the sixth-player lane and Deja Kelly adds Championship MVP to Charlotte's title.
FIRST ALL-UPSHOT TEAMSix players. All four founding clubs represented.
WNBA PIPELINELoading call-ups…
Professional reps become fresh film, fresh film becomes another door.
STAT WATCH
Players who made noise
Publicly verified player snapshots are dated because UPSHOT player availability and rosters changed during the season.
MOVING UP
UPSHOT → WNBA
HOW IT WORKS
Professional reps with a direct next-step purpose.
UPSHOT is a paid professional league designed to create more places to play, more film to evaluate and more opportunities to move into the WNBA or another professional stop.
Jacksonville, Charlotte, Greensboro and Savannah played the inaugural schedule before the championship game.
The league is built for athletes with college, semi-pro or professional experience who need another high-level platform.
The 2026 regular-season table sent Jacksonville and Charlotte to the inaugural championship.
Michelle Onyiah, Christyn Williams, Shyanne Sellers and Maria Gakdeng turned inaugural-season UPSHOT reps into WNBA contracts.
Baltimore and Nashville join the Founding Four for the league's second season.
UPSHOT 101 + HISTORY
From announcement to first champion.
The league’s complete inaugural-season story, plus the six-team map waiting in 2027.