Gov. Maura Healey isn\u2019t giving up on getting a WNBA team to Boston, she said Tuesday on \u201cBoston Public Radio.\u201d<\/p>\n
After\u00a0a chorus of support<\/a>\u00a0for bringing women\u2019s basketball to Boston grew last July in the midst of high turnout at TD Garden for Connecticut Sun games and franchise sale rumors, the Sun announced in March it would move to Houston in 2027, the\u00a0Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Asked if she had spoken to the commissioner or anyone about the news, Healey said, \u201cYeah, and look, I was really disappointed with the decision they made to move the team to Houston and an NBA owner.\u201d<\/p>\n The team is slated to be sold to Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta in a $300 million deal, per the AP.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I\u2019m not giving up,\u201d Healey continued. \u201cBoston should be home to a WNBA team. We invented basketball here.\u201d<\/p>\n Basketball was invented in Springfield.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce Connecticut goes \u2014 and hopefully we\u2019ll have them back here for a game before they do \u2014 New England will be without a women\u2019s basketball team. That\u2019s crazy,\u201d Healey said. \u201cSo we\u2019ve got to fix that. I want to continue to work with the league, Celtics ownership, you know, women\u2019s basketball is \u2014 to say it\u2019s on the rise is an understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPeople love it, and we should have a W team here, and I\u2019ll do whatever I can to make that happen,\u201d Healey, a former college and professional basketball player, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Maura Healey isn\u2019t giving up on getting a WNBA team to Boston, she said Tuesday on \u201cBoston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-613444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613444","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=613444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}