https://dailycampus.com/2025/10/01/sun-sale-nba-commissioners-call-doesnt-add-up/UNCASVILLE, CONN. (UConn Daily Campus) - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver recently defended the WNBA’s involvement in negotiations to sell the Connecticut Sun amid claims that the league may be doing so illegally. Silver’s comments, however, may cause more confusion than clarity in light of an unprecedented sports saga. “The [Mohegan Tribe] have every right to sell the team in their market,” Silver said on Sept. 16 at Front Office Sports’ Tuned In conference. The hoopla comes after the Sun garnered record-breaking offers to the tune of $325+ million, but the league apparently refused to allow a sale — either to former Boston Celtics owner Steve Pagliuca or Connecticut-based billionaire Marc Lasry. “But then we started to be contacted by people in Boston and elsewhere saying that there was a suggestion that they could buy a team in one market and take it to another. That’s sort of black-letter law in sports leagues. You can’t do that, you’re buying that market. Teams have different values in different markets, and we view those other markets as expansion markets,” Silver said. An NBA spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Campus that Silver’s usage of the term “market” actually refers solely to the home venue in which the teams play, not the word’s traditional meanings.(cont.)
I don’t get it, why cant they go to Boston?
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert reportedly never brought the Boston deal to the league’s board of governors. This allowed a period of exclusivity expire, allowing Connecticut to match it.Many have said that the league wants to save Boston for potential expansion - thereby getting a big fee.
>>151110437tv rights
>>151110491Thanks for the explanation
Cathy Engelbert fired when?Adam Silver is busy trying to convince everyone still watching that the NBA isnt rife with corruption folllowing the Ballmer-Leonard-Clippers scandal. He's got no time to deal with Engelbert's corruption too. Sweeping scandals under the rug is best done while no one is watching.
Since when did "market" not mean a team's market? Like it or not, preventing the Sun from playing in Hartford is a clear antitrust violation.
jewish
>>151110384the WNBA team evaluation is the biggest lie, and the jews couldn't push it through with the clippers fuck up, and all eyes on these retards. they want to go international and cant have poor evaluations screwing them up.if they value a womens team at 300 million its all over. itll take a truckload of "cash" for bread. brace for the worst lmao
>>151110384>An NBA spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Campus that Silver’s usage of the term “market” actually refers solely to the home venue in which the teams play, not the word’s traditional meanings.this needed to be clarified? is everyone retarded
Americans really just buy a sports team and take it home with them
Read the article.. it's obvious that Silver is trying to redefine the term to illegally prevent the sale.
