{"id":896805,"date":"2026-09-15T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896805\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:46:12","slug":"vancouver-group-aiming-to-have-formal-wnba-bid-in-next-2-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896805\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver group aiming to have formal WNBA bid in next 2-3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group has emerged aiming to bring a WNBA expansion team to Vancouver, with the group\u2019s leader noting the aim is to have a formal bid put in within the \u201cnext two, three years.\u201d The committee leader, Bill Bakk, joining \u201cGlobal News Morning,\u201d said it is a \u201cfour-to-five-year out kind of picture,\u201d noting there is plenty \u201cof work to do.\u201d Bakk: \u201cWe\u2019re basically developing a pro forma bid with all the features you\u2019d expect to win.\u201d Bakk noted there is \u201cno formal bid process established yet,\u201d but the group is putting together \u201cwhat it should look like.\u201d Former Canadian women\u2019s national basketball player Jodi Evans, a member of the group, cited the need for a \u201chigh performance\u201d practice facility that drives up the cost of a franchise. Evans said the group likely needs around CA$500M (US$359M) from a \u201cbig investment to make this happen.\u201d Former Univ. of British Columbia\u2019s men\u2019s basketball coach Kevin Hanson, another member of the group, maintained women\u2019s sports \u201chas really taken off in Vancouver\u201d and praised the arrival of the Toronto Tempo<\/a>. Bakk noted the WNBA is \u201caware\u201d of Vancouver\u2019s interest in an expansion team and the group has \u201cbeen in touch\u201d with advisors. He mentioned investors they talk to \u201care very captured by what this is all about.\u201d He added the possible team will \u201clikely\u201d play games at Rogers Arena, but the group will \u201cinvestigate all the possibilities\u201d (\u201cGlobal News Morning,\u201d Global News, 9\/14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group has emerged aiming to bring a WNBA expansion team to Vancouver, with the group\u2019s leader noting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-896805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896805","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=896805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}