The Fertitta household has reached a deal to buy the Connecticut Sun and convey the WNBA again to Houston, with an official announcement anticipated someday subsequent week, sources inform PaperCity. The settlement is “unofficially done” a supply tells PaperCity. The group is anticipated to be renamed the Houston Comets after the Bayou City’s earlier beloved WNBA group.
The Fertittas, homeowners of the Houston Rockets, are buying the Connecticut Sun and the present WNBA franchise will probably be shifting to H-Town with its first season in the Bayou City anticipated to be 2027. This is a main win for Houston, for basketball and for girls’s sports activities. Houston’s lengthy wanted a WNBA group to finish its sports activities group lineup with the Comets having folded in 2008, largely resulting from poor possession. The Comets gained the first 4 WNBA championships from 1997 to 2000.
Now the Comets are returning with the WNBA extra well-liked than ever — with a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement finalized that raises the wage cap to $7 million per group. This new period of the Houston Comets could have considered one of the greatest organizations in the NBA behind it.
The new period Comets will play at the Toyota Center — and have entry to the kind of analytical knowledge that the high organizations in sports activities depend on. But the largest winners on this entire monumental deal are Houston sports activities followers. Now Houston has a signature girls’s sports activities franchise. Tilman Fertitta has talked about bringing the WNBA again to Houston as the proper factor to do. It is about boosting the metropolis he loves greater than earning profits.
Even for the man who all the time is aware of the bottom-line numbers of all his companies. Tilman Fertitta preaches Know Your Numbers. But some issues are about greater than numbers.
Fertitta is the United States Ambassador to Italy and his future could contain even bigger political roles. But he nonetheless desires to do proper by Houston.
Bringing the WNBA again to Houston definitely does that.
