The Brief<\/p>\n
Houston Rockets ownership is reportedly in talks to buy and relocate the Connecticut Suns.<\/p>\n
The report is starting up talks of the Houston Comets’ potential return.<\/p>\n
HOUSTON – Sources with ESPN say the Houston Rockets ownership is in talks to relocate a WNBA team to the Bayou City.<\/p>\n
Reports: Rockets looking to buy Suns<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
According to ESPN’s report<\/a>, the Rockets are in “substantive talks” with the Connecticut Suns to potentially buy the team and move them to Houston.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Rockets ownership allegedly raised its offer to a more acceptable amount for the Suns to consider.<\/p>\n ESPN says there is no exclusive agreement, and there is no decision yet about the Suns’ future.<\/p>\n What’s next<\/p>\n FOX 26 has reached out to the Rocket’s communications team for comment.<\/p>\n Return of the Comets?<\/p>\n Dig deeper<\/p>\n Multiple reports say Rockets’ purchase of the Connecticut Suns would bring back the city’s former WNBA team, the Houston Comets.<\/p>\n As ESPN<\/a> and Sports Illustrated’s Lachard Binkley<\/a> share, the Comets’ franchise was a dynasty. They won the first four championships in the WNBA before they were sold to Hilton Koch.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The team was coached by the legendary Van Chancellor, but he left just before the team was sold.<\/p>\n The WNBA eventually took control of the Comets from Koch, then sent players to other teams.<\/p>\n The Source<\/p>\n ESPN and Sports Illustrated reporter Lachard Binkley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Houston Rockets ownership is reportedly in talks to buy and relocate the Connecticut Suns. The report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,154804,154801,1161,154803,46470,8223,82,154802,630,87112],"class_list":["post-359003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-communications-team","tag-connecticut-suns","tag-espn","tag-hilton-koch","tag-houston-comets","tag-houston-rockets","tag-sports","tag-substantive-talks","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}