Setting the Tempo

Setting The Tempo follows the WNBA’s first international franchise in the tumultuous journey to build a team ahead of their inaugural game. The series chronicles the process of hiring a GM and coach and assembling a roster, all balanced against the league’s increasingly heated labor fight and the looming threat of a lockout. The fledgling franchise must scramble to find and sign players and forge chemistry in the accelerated, high-stakes buildup to opening night.