An early peek at retooled teams is a sport all its own for WNBA fans waiting several months to watch their favorite teams again. But no preseason games were broadcast ahead of the 2021 season, leaving impressions to be formed from clips, interviews and box scores. Tamryn Spruill launches her Tam’s Take column with insights into every team in the runup to the start of the league’s 25th anniversary season.
LaChina Robinson, Tabitha Turner, Angel Gray, and Autumn Johnson will make up the first crew to bestow this honor and privilege.
We re so excited to have @LaChinaRobinson, @TabTurnerTV1, @Angel Gray1 and @autumnjohnsontv in @GatewayArena this season as our very first all-Black, all-female broadcast team
“As the Atlanta Dream experiences new beginnings we are extremely excited to announce our new broadcast team for the 2021 season,” said Renee Montgomery, Dream co-owner and vice president. “This broadcast team of all women is another positive step in our goal of providing empowerment to the diverse Atlanta community. It’s exciting knowing that moments such as these will create momentum, and we plan to keep that same level of energy moving forward.”
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Great things have been taking place in the city of Atlanta and it looks like it’s turning into a tradition! Several months ago in March, The WNBA and NBA Boards of Governors announced that they have unanimously approved the sale of the Atlanta Dream to Larry Gottesdiener, chairman of Northland, an industry-leading national real estate firm. The investor group for the Atlanta Dream franchise consists of Gottesdiener, Northland President and Chief Operating Officer Suzanne Abair, and former Dream basketball player Renee Montgomery.
Having a former player become part of ownership was a great achievement, but the Dream isn’t stopping there! With every Atlanta Dream home game this upcoming season, the events will be called by an all-female broadcast team, as LaChina Robinson, Tabitha Turner, and Angel Gray all return to the organization. These women comprise the first all-Black, all-female broadcast group in the Dream’s history.
By Ryan Shepard
May 11, 2021
The 2021 WNBA is off to a fast start and history has already been made in Atlanta, Georgia. This week, the Atlanta Dream announced the formation of its first broadcast team consisting completely of Black women.
LaChina Robinson and
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Autumn Johnson handle analysis. The Dream was the first professional team I covered when I started my journalism career in college, so this is a full-circle moment to have the opportunity to call my first WNBA game along with phenomenal women who I look up to and constantly asked questions to when I covered these games, Autumn Johnson wrote on Instagram after the news became public.