{"id":31645,"date":"2025-07-23T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31645\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:51:07","slug":"rhode-island-should-join-the-race-for-wnba-connecticut-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31645\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island should join the race for WNBA Connecticut Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Rhode Island needs an influential businessperson to \u201corganize the business and political class to launch a full-court press to do whatever it takes to recruit the Sun to Providence\u201d as speculation of a possible relocation for the WNBA franchise has ramped up, according to Dan McGowan of the BOSTON GLOBE. Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpri.com\/target-12\/wnbas-connecticut-sun-team-considering-move-to-providence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpri.com\/target-12\/wnbas-connecticut-sun-team-considering-move-to-providence\/\">reportedly visited Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence<\/a> and discussed relocating the Sun to the city. The benefits of the WNBA franchise moving to Rhode Island are \u201cobvious.\u201d McGowan: \u201cLogistically speaking, The AMP could use a summer tenant.\u201d The WNBA season ends before the Providence College men\u2019s basketball season begins, and \u201chaving 8,000 fans at 20-plus home games would provide a much-needed boost for downtown.\u201d It is \u201ceasy to be enamored with Boston and its much larger television market,\u201d and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/16\/sun-sells-out-td-garden-game-sparks-push-for-wnba-in-boston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/16\/sun-sells-out-td-garden-game-sparks-push-for-wnba-in-boston\/\">publicly courting a WNBA franchise<\/a>.\u201d Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont also has said that he \u201cwants to see\u202fthe team play a lot more games in Hartford.\u201d McGowan noted it would take someone like late former Hasbro CEO Alan Hassenfeld to \u201cbring in what\u2019s left of Rhode Island\u2019s major corporations to make a serious investment in arena sponsorships and luxury boxes, because that would cost a whole lot more money than what they pay for the Providence Bruins or Rhode Island FC at the new USL soccer stadium in Pawtucket\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/07\/23\/metro\/rhode-island-wnba-franchise-connecticut-sun-bid-pro-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOSTON GLOBE, 7\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhode Island needs an influential businessperson to \u201corganize the business and political class to launch a full-court press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,99,434,1765],"class_list":["post-31645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31645","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=31645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}