{"id":445516,"date":"2026-09-23T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445516\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:06:09","slug":"connecticut-sun-to-play-final-game-in-state-before-relocation-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445516\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun to play final game in state before relocation to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; The Connecticut Sun will play their final game in the state Thursday night before relocating to Houston for the start of the 2027 WNBA season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The team has been in Connecticut for 24 seasons. The franchise spent its first four seasons as the Orlando Miracle before relocating in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Sun has a record of 460-375, made the WNBA playoffs 16 times and reached the finals in four of those appearances. Unfortunately, they were not able to bring home any silverware for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They averaged more than 8,000 fans per game at Mohegan Sun Arena, which holds 9,000 patrons. The team\u2019s average attendance ranked in the lower half of the WNBA, a difference attributed to larger markets such as New York, Las Vegas and Phoenix playing in bigger arenas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Sun\u2019s new home, the Toyota Center, holds 18,000 for basketball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They will play their final game at Mohegan Sun Arena on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. against the Toronto Tempo. Tickets remain available, but may be sparse.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; The Connecticut Sun will play their final game in the state Thursday night before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32891,153774,56,58,57,44105,153775,153773],"class_list":["post-445516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-connecticut-sun-final-game","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-mohegan-sun-arena","tag-wnba-2027-season","tag-wnba-houston-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445516","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=445516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}