WNBA board in the dark about Connecticut deal

A US$325 million (S$418.9 million) offer to purchase the Women's National Basketball Association's (WNBA) Connecticut Sun was agreed to by both buyer and seller in July, but the league never presented the details to the WNBA board of governors for approval, Front Office Sports reported on Aug 5.

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The prospective purchase of the Sun by Boston Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca, from Connecticut's Mohegan Tribe, remains in limbo.

Pagliuca has expressed the desire to move the team to larger arenas in New England and vowed to invest in a US$110 million practice facility. The desired relocation site is believed to be Boston.

Details of the agreed-to sale reportedly made their way to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert but never to the board, which signs off on all ownership changes.

With the deal not approved during an "exclusivity" time period of less than a month, at least one other party has emerged as a potential buyer of the franchise, which the Mohegan Tribe purchased for US$10 million in 2003 and relocated from Orlando to Uncasville, Connecticut.