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‘I will not be moving on’: sale of WNBA’s Connecticut Sun leaves Native fans facing cultural loss
المصدر: Sport | The Guardian · نُشر
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native American-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move to Houston echoes centuries of erasure and displacement When the Connecticut Sun played their final WNBA game last month, fans at Mohegan Sun Arena came together in an
The Mohegan Tribe made the Sun the first Native American-owned franchise in pro sports. Fans say the team’s move to Houston echoes centuries of erasure and displacement When the Connecticut Sun played their final WNBA game last month, fans at Mohegan Sun Arena came together in an act of collective celebration and grief. The beloved franchise was leaving after 24 seasons, sold to a new ownership group in Houston, in a process so controversial that the state of Connecticut is considering legal action.
The end of the Sun is a loss for the entire New England region, which is now without a WNBA team. The Sun entered the league in 2003 and brought professional women’s basketball to Connecticut, which is considered the “Basketball Capital of the World” – at least, according to signs along the state’s highways. The Sun were the first independently owned WNBA team, and the first Native American-owned pro sports franchise.
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