The possession of the Connecticut Solar plans to current a number of choices for a sale to the WNBA, sources advised ESPN.
The choices are prone to embrace a full sale to Steve Pagliuca’s group for $325 million, a sale to a Connecticut-based group that includes Marc Lasry, and permitting the league to buy the workforce for $325 million and transfer it to a different market.
Pagliuca’s group plans to maneuver the workforce to Boston. Lasry’s group would hold the workforce in Connecticut and transfer it to Hartford.
It is usually rumored that the WNBA wants to move the team to Houston.
The Mohegan tribe, which has owned the Solar since 2003, is searching for extra readability after Pagliuca’s bid was met with resistant from the league.
The tribe is reportedly pissed off and feels that the league is pushing in the direction of a transfer to a brand new market. The WNBA supplied $250 million to purchase the workforce and relocate it previous to Pagliuca’s bigger bid.
There may be additionally concern throughout the league that ought to the workforce transfer to Boston, it could not have the ability to play each residence sport at TD Backyard resulting from scheduling points.
