Connecticut just needs to give it up and stop trying to force the W or the team to stay in Connecticut. Be grateful you have a world class college sports program with uber elite hoops teams, not to mention a plethora of other elite sports teams, and an up and coming football program.
And BTW, if the league wants to "punish" Boston at this time with not letting them take a team, since they hadn't previously submitted a formal request for an expansion team, the same should hold true for Hartford. Yeah I get that Hartford is too close to Uncasville and a 2nd Connecticut team would never have been put together, but it smacks a bit of favoritism and WNBA/state "politics".