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After nearly 20 years, the WNBA is coming back to Houston. <\/p>\n
The Connecticut Sun\u2019s final season officially ended last week<\/a> after 24 years, marking the beginning of the franchise\u2019s relocation for the 2027 season as the revived Houston Comets.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n The original Houston Comets team folded in 2008 after twelve years of operation from 1997 through 2008, which included four championship runs.<\/p>\n The roster for the Comets\u2019 next season will include four new players. It could also feature Houston native and two-time defensive player of the year Britney Griner \u2014 who has the opportunity to become a free agent this offseason after signing a one-year contract with the Sun earlier this year.<\/p>\n Griner spoke to the media after the team\u2019s final home game on Sept.24.<\/p>\n \u201cConnecticut knows basketball, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a lot of sad faces after that game. It was definitely an emotional game.\u201d<\/p>\n Sun\u2019s President Jennifer Rizzotti spoke to fans through tears after their final game.<\/p>\n “No matter what happens from here, this team as they move on to the next chapter of their careers, the success that all of them have in their future \u2014 you will always be a part of that, always,\u201d Rizzotti said. <\/p>\n Rizzotti and General Manager Morgan Tuck are relocating with the team to Houston.<\/p>\n Ahead of the Comets\u2019 return for regular season games at the Toyota Center, basketball fans can already get in on the action. The team is selling season tickets online at HoustonComets.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Local Comets appearances are happening throughout October, starting with Katy Pride<\/a> at Bear Creek Rodeo Arena on Oct. 3 and an appearance at Discovery Green<\/a> on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly 20 years, the WNBA is coming back to Houston. The Connecticut Sun\u2019s final season officially ended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[256744,4384,177458,366354,197906,3729,99,434,149773],"class_list":["post-868865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-britney-griner","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-houston-comets","tag-houston-wnba","tag-houston-wnba-team","tag-local","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868865","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=868865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}