{"id":150017,"date":"2025-09-11T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150017\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:45:07","slug":"denvers-mayor-says-he-wants-to-put-a-wnba-team-at-the-same-place-as-the-national-western-stock-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150017\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver&#8217;s mayor says he wants to put a WNBA team at the same place as the National Western Stock Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of the National Western complex in Denver, rodeo is the sport that likely comes to mind. However, if Denver\u2019s mayor gets his way there will be way more basketball played there than any other sport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denverite.com\/2025\/09\/11\/denver-wnba-team-national-western-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Mike Johnston told Denverite<\/a> he wants to bring a WNBA team to Denver, saying in part that the city still has an obligation from a previous bond package to build a new coliseum at the National Western Center. Johnston spoke with the WNBA about using the planned facility for a Denver team, but it didn\u2019t work out. However,\u00a0there also are plans to build an indoor rodeo arena at the National Western Center, and Johnston thinks the WNBA could work there, too.<\/p>\n<p>The city was one of<a href=\"https:\/\/kygo.com\/the-wnba-just-announced-its-expanding-to-three-cities-is-denver-getting-a-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> several cities bidding for a WNBA expansion team<\/a> earlier this year but the league instead chose Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. It\u2019s not clear when or whether another expansion might happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kygo.com\/team-kygo\/#\/\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KYGOEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KYGOEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@985KYGO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Subscribe-Banner_KYGO_300x250.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Subscribe-Banner_KYGO_830x100.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you think of the National Western complex in Denver, rodeo is the sport that likely comes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3526,99,3525,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-150017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-colorado-denvers-sports-station-104-3-the-fan","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-sports-radio-104-3-the-fan-denver","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}