{"id":848335,"date":"2026-09-15T06:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848335\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:36:11","slug":"vancouver-group-preparing-bid-for-wnba-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848335\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver group preparing bid for WNBA team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA might be getting a bit more Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>A Vancouver group is preparing a bid for a WNBA team, three members of the group announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/12058355\/vancouver-group-preparing-bid-for-wnba-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global News<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The bid committee members who went public with the venture were Bill Bakk, Jodi Evans and Kevin Hanson. The plan had been in place for about a year now. <\/p>\n<p>Bakk is the leader of the committee, who has experience with Deloitte, while Evans is a former Canadian Olympic basketball player, and Hanson coached the University of British Columbia&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The group is looking for more investors, as they will need close to $500 million CAD for the venture.<\/p>\n<p>There is no formal bid in to the WNBA as of yet, but they are in the process of getting there, with a rough timeline for a formal bid being two to three years.<\/p>\n<p>A Vancouver franchise would be the second Canadian team to join the WNBA, as the Toronto Tempo are in the midst of their inaugural season. <\/p>\n<p>The Tempo played two games in Vancouver earlier this year, and with such a great turnout, it showed the level of interest in women&#8217;s sports in Vancouver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA might be getting a bit more Canadian. A Vancouver group is preparing a bid for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-848335","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\/848335","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=848335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}