Nashville, Tenn.-NHL’s Nashville hunters and his wife’s president WNBA want to bring WNBA to the music city and worked with a star-filled investor group including Candes Parker, Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback Peyton Manning and Entertainer Tim McGrag. Is. And Fath Hill.
The group, led by former Tennessi Governor Bill Haslam, on Thursday presented its bid for a franchise, which will begin to play in 2028. The team will also be nominated in honor of the late Pat Summit. Halam said that they see how women’s professional games are emerging with “zero” all over the world
“We believe that a WNBA team located in Nashville, can serve as a beacon for girls and women, young and old, in Tennessee, while sports creates more opportunities for fans because our community is growing. Hai, “Halam said.
The Nashville dialect also has a plan to create a practice facility for the WNBA team which will also be used for young basketball.
Parker said in a statement, “Tenasi is the DNA of everything in women’s basketball.” “I am excited to be a part of the working group to bring a WNBA team to the state and respect the heritage of the coach summit.”
Parker is a three -time WNBA champion and he helped the summit to win two of their eight national championships at Tennessi University. The summit died in 2016 as four years as the winning Division I Coach, which occurred four years after the early start dementia, four years after the Alzheimer’s type diagnosis.
A native of Tennessee, Summit, for 38 years, coached Lady Vols and set a career record of 1,098-208 in 38 sessions, as well as 18 NCAA last four appearances. His son, Tyler, said that his mother was a very big lawyer under women’s sports and women’s leadership.
“I know that she would be proud to be proud of being involved in the expansion of women’s professional basketball in Tennessee,” Summit said.
The team plays home for NHL’s predators, in Brijstone Arena. Halam started purchasing majority parts of poachers in 2022.
WNBA is combining three expansion teams with Golden State, Portland and Toronto in the next two sessions, joining the league franchise to 15. Commissioner Kathy Engelbert has said that the WNBA would like to add 16th team by 2028 season. Cleveland announced its bid to bring back a WNBA franchise in Ohio last November.