{"id":275260,"date":"2025-11-06T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275260\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:08:09","slug":"rock-entertainment-group-continues-surveys-to-decide-clevelands-wnba-team-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/275260\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Entertainment Group continues surveys to decide Cleveland\u2019s WNBA team name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Rock Entertainment Group (REG) is \u201cstill deep in the data-gathering phase\u201d for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/01\/clevelands-wnba-expansion-franchise-brings-excitement-opportunity-to-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/01\/clevelands-wnba-expansion-franchise-brings-excitement-opportunity-to-city\/\">Cleveland WNBA team\u2019s name<\/a>, pulling \u201copinions from surveys and focus groups,\u201d according to Joe Scalzo of CRAIN\u2019S CLEVELAND BUSINESS. More than 7,000 fans who \u201cplunked down a season-ticket deposit\u201d for the team, which begins play in 2028, received a survey that listed \u201ca handful of options currently under consideration,\u201d including names that keep surfacing online: \u201cFounders, Crown, Rockers, Novas, Riveters, and Sirens.\u201d Those options are \u201cnot necessarily\u201d the finalists. They \u201cmay be in the mix,\u201d and Rockers, the name of the original Cleveland WNBA team, \u201cdefinitely is.\u201d Cleveland\u2019s jersey design is \u201cdue to Nike within the next year,\u201d and the franchise \u201cstill has to line up two corporate patch partners to include in the final look, so the clock is ticking.\u201d REG and Cavaliers CEO Nic Barlage said that the organization has \u201csent three potential names to the league office for preliminary approval and expects to make a final decision in January,\u201d though the winner will not \u201cnecessarily be one of those three\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crainscleveland.com\/sports-recreation\/cleveland-wnba-team-still-weighing-name-options\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.crainscleveland.com\/sports-recreation\/cleveland-wnba-team-still-weighing-name-options\">CRAIN\u2019S CLEVELAND BUSINESS, 10\/31<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock Entertainment Group (REG) is \u201cstill deep in the data-gathering phase\u201d for the Cleveland WNBA team\u2019s name, pulling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,99,35997,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-275260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-ticketing","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275260","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=275260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}