Bay Area new WNBA team has no name, won't start playing for another year and as an expansion team will be bad for several years. It already has 7000 season ticket holders, overwhelmingly people who do not have Warriors tickets.
hold the phone....so the expansion teams won't even play for another year, and they seriously used the Moda not being available!?! This story just gets full of more and more BS.
I can't say for sure, of course, but they might have gauged interest among Blazers fans and decided not enough. But it's a different market.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/wnba-toronto-awarded-expansion-team-1.7198595 Women's professional basketball is coming to Toronto. CBC Sports has learned that Kilmer Sports Inc., headed by Toronto billionaire Larry Tanenbaum, has been granted an expansion franchise with the Women's National Basketball Association. An announcement is expected May 23 in Toronto, with the team to begin play in May 2026, according to four people with knowledge of the deal but who are not authorized to speak about it. Tanenbaum is a minority owner and chairman of sporting giant Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment which owns the Maple Leafs, Raptors, TFC, Argos and Marlies. The 79-year-old originally pursued the expansion team through MLSE, but it was turned down by other members of the board.
Tanenbaum, a favourite of both Stern and Silver, couldn't get past nepo-baby billionaire and MLSE board member Ed Rogers, meaning for the time being the WNBA team is disconnected from the Raptors.
Indiana Fever had among the worst attendance in the WNBA last year, barely 4000 a game. They sold 13,000 tickets to a preseason game this year.
