{"id":364156,"date":"2025-12-22T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:11:06","slug":"nbas-houston-rockets-ramp-up-talks-to-buy-relocate-connecticut-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364156\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA&#8217;s Houston Rockets Ramp Up Talks to Buy, Relocate Connecticut Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NWSL expansion team Boston Legacy FC has found a home, with the franchise announcing Friday that it plans to play the majority of the club&#8217;s 2026 inaugural season at <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/2026-nwsl-expansion-team-boston-legacy-brings-womens-soccer-to-gillette-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Foxborough&#8217;s Gillette Stadium<\/a> while moving some matches to Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Home to the NFL&#8217;s New England Patriots, Gillette will also serve as a host site for the men&#8217;s 2026 World Cup, pushing the Boston Legacy to relocate some conflicting summer clashes to Centreville Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Located\u00a0approximately 22 miles by car from Foxborough, Pawtucket&#8217;s soccer-specific venue is home to second-flight USL Championship side Rhode Island FC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we expand across two exceptional venues, we see this as an opportunity to connect with even more soccer fans across the region,&#8221; said Boston Legacy president Jennifer van Dijk in <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonlegacyfc.com\/blogs\/press\/boston-legacy-football-club-play-select-matches-centreville-bank-stadium-gillette-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Friday&#8217;s club statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Legacy is still moving forward on a public-private partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/nwsl-soccer-boston-expansion-team-stadium-renovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Boston&#8217;s White Stadium<\/a> for the 2027 season and beyond, with the Franklin Park venue still undergoing renovations through the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>How to attend the first-ever Boston Legacy FC match<\/p>\n<p>With the club aiming to move into its <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/boston-legacy-fc-plans-performance-center-as-wnba-star-aliyah-boston-buys-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">state-of-the-art performance center<\/a> prior to making its NWSL debut, Boston Legacy FC is also gearing up for its first-ever home opener, which will kick off inside Gillette Stadium at 12:30 PM ET on Saturday, March 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Though the expansion side&#8217;s opening opponent \u2014\u00a0as well as the rest of the league&#8217;s 2026 schedule \u2014 is still unknown, fans can be a part of NWSL history by snagging tickets to the club&#8217;s first-ever match at <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonlegacyfc.com\/pages\/2026-home-opener\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BostonLegacyFC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NWSL expansion team Boston Legacy FC has found a home, with the franchise announcing Friday that it plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[132218,4384,352,177458,5050,28017,355,99,179286,179287,434,17953],"class_list":{"0":"post-364156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cba-negotiations","9":"tag-connecticut-sun","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-houston-comets","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-mohegan-tribe","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-strike-authorization","17":"tag-team-sale","18":"tag-wnba","19":"tag-wnbpa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364156","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=364156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}