Former NBA player Michael Carter-Williams hopes to bring a WNBA franchise to Boston, whether it’s through expansion or being a destination for a current team that wants to move.
He’s part of the Boston Women’s Basketball Partners group that is spearheading the initiative. The group hasn’t submitted a bid to the WNBA, although it has talked with the company that the league hired to handle the expansion bids process.
“The main objective is to get a team in Boston,” Carter-Williams said in a phone interview Thursday. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an expansion team or a team that wants to sell and move to Boston.”
Carter-Williams said his group has all their “ducks in a row” when it comes to where it would play and practice facility space. Now, he said, they just need a franchise.
Boston hosted a sold-out WNBA game last year when the Connecticut Sun played a contest at the TD Garden, the home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics. Another regular-season game will be played at TD Garden this year when the Indiana Fever and reigning WNBA rookie of the year Caitlin Clark take on the Sun.