{"id":197915,"date":"2025-10-02T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197915\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:03:07","slug":"suns-mercury-announce-115m-arena-naming-rights-deal-with-owner-mat-ishbias-mortgage-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/197915\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns, Mercury announce $115M arena naming rights deal with owner Mat Ishbia&#8217;s mortgage company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a> have announced a $115 million, 10-year naming rights partnership with United Wholesale Mortgage that will rename the team&#8217;s arena the Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Mat Ishbia is the owner of the Suns and Mercury and is also the CEO of United Wholesale Mortagage. The 45-year-old took over the as CEO in 2013, guiding its transformation into one of the top mortgage lenders in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m extremely excited about this partnership as it represents two organizations that have natural alignment and a shared commitment to excellence,&#8221; Ishbia said in a statement. \u201cThe Phoenix Suns and Mercury have a diverse, passionate and engaged fan base in sports that will allow us to make strong connections between mortgage brokers and consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">The downtown arena hosts the home games for the Suns and Mercury, as well as other events like concerts. It will also host the 2026 NCAA Women&#8217;s Final Four and 2027 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury have announced a $115 million, 10-year naming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-197915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197915","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=197915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}