The WNBA will expand to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 2025 season, the league announced Thursday. The team will begin play in 2025.
The NBA's Golden State Warriors co-owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber will own and operate the WNBA franchise. The team will play at the Chase Center in San Francisco and use the Warriors' Oakland Facility as its headquarters. The Warriors used that facility until 2019 as a practice facility and front office."The Bay Area is the perfect market for a WNBA team, and we are thrilled this opportunity has finally come to fruition," Lacob said in a statement.
At her 2021 WNBA Draft state-of-the-league address, Engelbert said expansion is on the league’s list of things “down the road” and they would “probably have a much more developed answer” if not for the pandemic and in-person fan limitations due to it. “Our conversations with potential ownership groups are headed in the right direction, and we will have some more news to announce about that at a later date this season,” she said.
“It’s a very competitive league. There’s 300 Division I women’s basketball programs in this country and it is, it’s hard to make a team, but we don’t want to degrade the quality of the game, either,” Engelbert told a group of reporters at the Sparks’ season opener in May. “But I do think as I’ve stated we’re now with the transformation on the economic and business side of things, I think we’re ready for expansion in the next few years.
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