KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City’s chances of scoring a Women’s National Basketball Association team sooner rather than later have dimmed.
The WNBA is preparing to award Cleveland its 16th franchise, multiple sources have told Sports Business Journal, with an approximate bid worth a league record $250M.
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The sources put Cleveland’s expansion chances as high as 90% — with an announcement expected no later than March — and said the WNBA has re-thought its original plan of adding just one team and could award one or two more franchises to bring its league total to 18 clubs.
The presumed leaders for the second and third teams are Philadelphia, Houston, Nashville, Detroit and Miami, with the league reiterating that nothing is finalized.
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