Concerns are being raised about the forced sale and relocation of the Connecticut Sun after claims the team was moved despite higher offers to keep it in the region.<\/p>\n
Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the WNBA illegally blocked competing proposals that would have relocated the franchise to either Boston or Hartford.<\/p>\n
Blumenthal said the reported $300 million deal to sell and move the team to Houston was $25 million less than other offers.<\/p>\n
He said the league rejected those proposals and forced the team to leave Connecticut.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m calling for an investigation by the Department of Justice into the anti\u2011competitive potential violations of our antitrust law by the WNBA,\u201d Blumenthal said.<\/p>\n
He said the move would harm fans, local businesses and the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
The relocation of the Connecticut Sun is scheduled to take effect next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concerns are being raised about the forced sale and relocation of the Connecticut Sun after claims the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,68627,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-188127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-connecticut-sun","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}