
Why has the sale of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun become so complicated?
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The Sun's leadership presented the offer, a $325 million bid from financier Steve Pagliuca, to the WNBA executives, including commissioner Cathy Engelbert. Pagliuca had been a Boston Celtics minority owner for more than two decades — he sold his shares when the sale closed this month — and had gained an exclusive negotiating window. The tribe and Pagliuca had discussions about how long the team would stay at the Mohegan Sun Arena, but ultimately, the goal was to move to Boston and build a practice facility.
The offer did not sit well with the WNBA. While the rest of the meeting between Sun and league executives was placid, a WNBA executive later called Allen & Company, the investment bank running the sale for the Sun, and expressed unhappiness, saying that the Pagliuca deal was an unapproved attempt at relocation. (Allen & Company declined comment for this article.) There has been little contact between the league and franchise leaders since then. Engelbert did not present the sale to the rest of the league's board of governors for approval, multiple sources familiar with the conversation said, striking what could have been a league-high franchise fee with a pocket veto. They and others were granted anonymity so they could speak freely. Front Office Sports was the first to report the agreement and that the WNBA ignored it.
The Sun and the WNBA have been in a standoff ever since, while all the Sun's potential buyers have been in stasis. The tribe has two men — Pagliuca and former Bucks owner Marc Lasry — each willing to pay $325 million apiece for the team, more than any WNBA team has ever garnered before in a control sale, and neither was able to get approval from the league. The WNBA, like every other American professional sport, has its board of governors sign off on ownership-control sales and relocation efforts; it has made clear to the Sun that it does not want the team to move unless it's to an approved city.
The Sun sale, however it plays out, has become a story of the sometimes divergent interests of a team and the league it plays in. It is a reflection of the intense attention that has flocked to the WNBA in recent years and the financial boon it has experienced, but also of how it is handling its growth, which has been awkward at times.
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It has also touched on the WNBA's relationship with the NBA, which has hovered over the league as it expanded — a fault line to some and a strength to others. Of the six new expansion teams the WNBA added since 2023, four are run by an ownership group that also has an NBA team. Another, the Toronto Tempo, is owned by Larry Tanenbaum, who is a Raptors minority owner but also the chairman of the NBA's board of governors.
Though the WNBA and the Mohegan Tribe have rarely communicated since that July meeting, the league has made its leaders aware that it has one clear option to resolve this dispute: They could sell the Sun to the league for $250 million, which would then sell it to Tilman Fertitta and allow him to move the team to Houston, multiple sources said.
Fertitta, who is the U.S. ambassador to Italy, owns the NBA's Houston Rockets. He and the city of Houston are next on the list for a WNBA team, which would mark the league's return to a city that once had its first dynasty, the Houston Comets. Houston nearly got one during the latest expansion round in the spring and is still working to get a team.
The sales process has left several involved frustrated with the WNBA and the NBA, which has been involved too, and wondering how this might end. Ultimately, the tribe could decide to continue running the Sun rather than selling it at a price it believes is below market value if the WNBA won't let it go to its chosen buyer. They could sue but that doesn't seem to be a likely option at this point.
Those with knowledge of the sales process said they believe the league is trying to control the flow of markets into the WNBA and leave open the possibility of getting a much larger expansion fee for a team in Boston down the line. (Multiple sources said they believe that the WNBA is not done expanding and that estimates for a Boston franchise have ranged between $400-$500 million). Letting the Sun move there now would create a shortcut into that market, as well as deprive the WNBA of expansion fees for a much smaller relocation fee, and let that city jump ahead of Houston.
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'The league is in charge of this. They have more control,' said one person briefed on the sale. 'They want to make sure the league grows in the right way and the right markets.'
Though the Sun and WNBA are at odds now, they had worked together early in the process. A potential sale was first mentioned to Engelbert at a playoff game last fall, but the Sun deferred until the league could finish its latest stage of expansion, according to one person involved in the negotiations. The tribe hired Allen & Company, but it was also running expansion for the WNBA.
The two sides met in March at the NBA's offices, as expansion was gaining clarity, where Engelbert informed Sun executives that Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia were getting expansion teams. The league also asked the tribe to first talk to the Cleveland ownership group — led by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert — before putting the team on the market. If they could reach a deal, the Gilbert group would buy the Sun and move it to Cleveland, sources said. If that negotiation had been fruitful, it seems likely that Houston would have then been the third city to get a WNBA expansion team.
The Mohegan Tribe and Cleveland were not able to reach a deal, however, because of a disagreement about the price, according to sources.
When talks with potential expansion groups fell through, ownership whittled its list of suitors from 15 to two. It decided that Pagliuca had the best offer. The Sun hadn't been put on the market explicitly as a relocation opportunity, but Pagliuca and Lasry want to move it out of Uncasville, Conn. Pagliuca wants to move it to Boston, and Lasry intends to put it in Hartford.
The WNBA did not appreciate those efforts. It told the tribe twice in writing — in April and June — that it could not sell to relocate the franchise out of market, and that the league would need to be involved in the process for any such deal. The league's rules state that any move more than 75 miles outside of a team's territory needs league approval, though Hartford and Providence both sit in those boundaries. (The tribe's membership agreement with the WNBA allows the Sun to play up to two games a year in Hartford, sources said.) The NBA even needed to sign off on the Golden State Warriors' move from Oakland to San Francisco and on the New York Liberty moving from Westchester Convention Center to Barclays Arena.
The WNBA, in a statement earlier this month, said that the nine other cities involved in the expansion process would have priority and that Boston had not applied. Even if Boston did get a team, new Celtics owner Bill Chisholm, the WNBA noted, has already asked to be considered.
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Pagliuca and Lasry have both settled in with $325 million offers — $75 million more than the expansion fees the league drew this spring. But they are also still waiting on a process that is now out of their hands.
Multiple sources briefed on the sale said that the WNBA has told interested investors that it could buy the Sun, keep it at the Mohegan Sun Arena for a period of time, and then move it.
'We're all waiting on the league to act, and the league's basic action is, we're not going to do anything unless you take our offer,' said the person involved in the negotiations.
The WNBA is not against the Sun moving. It just has to be to a city the league would approve of.
Lasry, who had a bid for Austin, Texas, would not be able to move the Sun there either, according to a source familiar with the league's rules. A team based in Uncasville, however, is not worth as much to investors as a team that can move elsewhere.
The WNBA's willingness to help expedite the Sun's move to Houston is a recognition of the seeming preference that NBA ownership groups have received during the league's renaissance. The WNBA has a complicated governance structure, with NBA owners in control of 42 percent of the league, WNBA owners in possession of another 42 percent, and another 16 percent held by the investors who participated in the WNBA's 2022 capital raise. The NBA, in actuality, owns a majority stake in the WNBA because 10 of its 18 teams (including new expansion teams) are run by NBA owners, and a number of NBA owners also invested in the capital raise.
When the WNBA announced that three NBA ownership groups landed expansion teams this year, one bidder was disappointed but realistic.
'The WNBA is half-owned by the NBA, so why would the end result surprise anyone?' a member of the group said.
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But people with knowledge of WNBA and NBA team operations said that having a partnership between the two franchises can prove crucial to success on the business side. Owning both teams can help with sales, revenue, arena dates and 'is a huge advantage to make the investment work,' said the person briefed on the Sun sale.
Lasry and Pagliuca no longer own NBA teams, though Fertitta still does.
For now, the Mohegan Tribe still owns the Connecticut Sun and is open to keeping it. There does not seem to be an off-ramp in place for a sale yet. There are no deadlines, but there is a desire to gain some finality before free agency begins this upcoming winter.
The tribe wants to maximize the value it gets for the team and does not seem inclined to take less than they can get in the open market, however that payment comes. The WNBA has the right to control who buys the team and where it goes. Lasry and Pagliuca want the Sun — but not in Uncasville long-term.
How it ends may depend on whether the Mohegan Tribe and the WNBA find a way to work together.
— The Athletic's Ben Pickman contributed to this report.
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