If they do they will end up losing a lot of future investors which will be a bad look for the league.
That's one way of looking at it but they already have 8 or 9 interested investor groups wanting an expansion franchise. So, seems like the short term is healthy. Perhaps the Boston group was counting their chickens before they hatched. Interesting.
The only 2 reasons I can see to block this is if:
Pssh southeastern, Connecticut is well known as "the Riviera of New England."
I can guarantee that if the Mohegans dont own the team, it will not be called the Sun.
I started rooting for the Liberty, if only because Stewie is on that team and there’s a local club here in Syracuse that does group watches.
Yikes
well said... not being urban hurt the team big time
Can we say "lawsuit"? Would $350M be enough to get the Mohegans to litigate? It would for me
Not sure what the WNBA bylaws are on this... Do you know?Can we say "lawsuit"? Would $350M be enough to get the Mohegans to litigate? It would for me
I don't understand why the media keeps reporting it as a completed deal
PR campaign by someone/somebodies?
No but, did that ever stop litigation? There's speculation in the Waterbury Republican that it could be anti-trust. Really, the WNBA has a long history of teams being bought and sold, moving, etc. That will not work in favor of WNBA trying to stop this deal.
Let's see here. Team playing in historic Boston TD garden, or team playing in run-down outdated Hartford Peoples Bank Arena? No choice here. ✅ Checkmark to Boston. Team playing in run-down nasty dingy Hartford, or slick, interesting Boston? ✅ Checkmark once again to Boston. Definite plan, in place to build multi million dollar practice facility in Boston, while "tentative", with no real location for practice facility, somewhere in Hartford. Once again Checkmark ✅ goes to Boston. The only flies in the ointment, could be butthurt politicians, in Connecticut, and WNBA board of governor's. However 325 million dollars could soothe the WNBA people, while it just might be a little bit more difficult having to deal with the butt hurt political leaders of Connecticut. My, excuse the pun, "bet" is on Pag's, and the Boston group, to once again outplay Connecticut, and bring the Sun to Boston.
You forgot about the biggest factor. The WNBA board doesn't want to approve the sale because they want Boston's formal expansion fee and they don't want them to jump their other expansion targets in line. Not to mention, the other franchise presidents wouldn't be too thrilled. The Sun moving to Hartford isn't a relocation, it's the same Market, so I believe that sale would be approved which is why we haven't heard of any strings attached to it
As a former Whalers fan, I have not attended a hockey game since they left town, and the only game I watched on TV was the Quinnipiac national championship game. If the Sun move, unless they are in Hartford, I will not ever root for them. This year I have been watching the Dallas Wings because of Paige, and unexpectedly I have become a fan of them and watch every game. They are trying to build around Paige, so there is that option for you. The Sun were the first franchise to not be owned by a NBA team, and the first team to turn a profit. Since I am old it doesn't really matter to me in the long run, but the other loyal fans in this state deserve to have a team, and Hartford is such a better option than Uncasville. Stay in Connecticut and watch the team thrive.
