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frontofficesports.com

Building the Portland Fire

Portland Fire GM Vanja Černivec on building a WNBA expansion team from scratch, the Valkyries model, international players, and a playoff push in year one.

martedì 16 giugno 2026 New tab

150 words~1 min read

By Ted Taylor

June 16, 2026 • 09:00 am

Vanja Černivec joins Dan Roberts of Front Office Sports to discuss:

Building the Fire roster under extreme CBA timeline pressure

Why she doesn’t believe in copying and pasting from the Valkyries model

Other newsrooms on this story

· 3 sources

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