Another attempt to keep the Sun here.

[☘️IrishEyes]

Connecticut bids to keep Sun from moving away

The state of Connecticut is proposing buying a minority stake in the Sun at a valuation higher than the WNBA's current $250 million offer in an effort to keep the team from moving away.

www.espn.com

 

[Alydar]

Connecticut bids to keep Sun from moving away

The state of Connecticut is proposing buying a minority stake in the Sun at a valuation higher than the WNBA's current $250 million offer in an effort to keep the team from moving away.

www.espn.com

The W has already said that Boston will be a site in the future and then we will have the same problem the Whalers had and they will relocate.
I also don't like tax dollars going to subsidize the center of downtown Hartford.

 

[cellocgg]

The W has already said that Boston will be a site in the future and then we will have the same problem the Whalers had and they will relocate.
I also don't like tax dollars going to subsidize the center of downtown Hartford.

The Sun and a Boston team can coexist

 

[Alydar]

The Sun and a Boston team can coexist

not for long. Boston and NY would dominate the NY/Boston media market. It's an old problem, of young women and their desire to work in Hartford. The income potential in NY and Boston is immense compared to CT and the cultural activity is two universes. At some point the owner of the team would take it away to a new home in the sun belt, if only for business reasons.

 

[cellocgg]

not for long. Boston and NY would dominate the NY/Boston media market.

Good thing Hartford is in the Connecticut market otherwise your point might make sense

 

[EricLA]

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".

 

[zls44]

Connecticut just needs to give it up and stop trying to force the W or the team to stay in Connecticut.

…why?

 

[Urshurak]

Has attendance, historically, been good for the Sun?