Basketball legend Lauren Jackson believes the WNBL's first expansion team in a decade is in for an "incredible" foundation season.
The Tasmania Jewels will become the WNBL's ninth franchise from the 2026/27 season, more than a decade after the league last expanded with the addition of the South East Queensland Stars in 2015.
Expansion sides the Stars, Logan Thunder and Christchurch Sirens have all been crushed by financial difficulties and forced to exit the league since the turn of the century.
