{"id":228285,"date":"2026-03-31T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:38:15","slug":"the-bitter-reality-behind-the-comeback-of-the-wnbas-houston-comets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228285\/","title":{"rendered":"The bitter reality behind the comeback of the WNBA&#8217;s Houston Comets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday marked a bittersweet day for the WNBA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tilman Fertitta\u2019s family, owners of the NBA\u2019s Houston Rockets, reached <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/27\/sports\/rockets-owners-buying-connecticut-sun-moving-to-houston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an agreement to buy the Connecticut Sun<\/a>, the Mohegan Tribe confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is pending WNBA approval, but all signs point to it becoming official soon, in time to relocate the franchise to Houston for 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, this is great news, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday marked a bittersweet day for the WNBA.\u00a0 Tilman Fertitta\u2019s family, owners of the NBA\u2019s Houston Rockets, reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32891,5196,56,58,57,4854,154,38352,14422],"class_list":{"0":"post-228285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-connecticut-sun","9":"tag-expansion","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}