Michael Carter-Williams Back in professional basketball … but in the business component? What's more in women's basketball? According to the Boston Globethe former NBA player would be in the process of preparing an offer to launch a WNBA franchise in Boston in a group of investors including actor Donnie Walhberg.
Mayor Michelle Wu and the Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey supported the idea of creating a female team. The WNBA is expanding, with teams in San Francisco, Portland and Toronto who will start to evolve in the women's championship in the next two years.
“” It was in Massachusetts that basketball – male and female – was invented. There is a huge market here and enthusiasm for a WNBA team. I would work with anyone to explore all the options so that it happens », Ensures Maura Healey.
Native of Boston
The Wahlberg/Carter-Williams group, called “Boston Women's Basketball Partners”, will have to apply a team creation, then be approved by the owners of the League, and pay expansion fees. For example, the Portland franchise had paid a right of expansion of $ 125 million.
“” As a long -standing fan of the Boston Celtics which attended countless NBA matches during his life, nothing would make me more happy than to have a WNBA franchise in the city of Boston. I look forward to the day I can enter the Garden, with thousands of basketball fans among the biggest (and best informed) of the planet, to encourage the WNBA team of the city of Boston », Imagine Donnie Walhberg.
I WOULD Love to make it happen. https://t.co/qsh9u3uev
-Michael Carter-Willi (@mcarterwilliams) FEBRUARY 18, 2025
A native of Hamilton, north of Boston, Michael Carter-Williams also has an emotional bond. “” I would like nothing more than welcoming a WNBA team at home. May the sun rise in Boston! “, he thus claims on x.
The rookie of 2014 with the Sixers, the last NBA match of which dates back to April 2023 with the Magic, never worn the Celtics jersey in nine years of career in the big league.
