{"id":70235,"date":"2026-03-27T21:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/wnbas-connecticut-sun-will-move-to-houston-after-300m-sale-to-fertitta-family\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:54:54","slug":"wnbas-connecticut-sun-will-move-to-houston-after-300m-sale-to-fertitta-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/wnbas-connecticut-sun-will-move-to-houston-after-300m-sale-to-fertitta-family\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA\u2019s Connecticut Sun will move to Houston after $300m sale to Fertitta family"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Fertittas buy Sun and plan Houston move for 2027<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Houston Comets name set to return after sale closes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Connecticut get one last season before relocation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Fertitta family, who own the NBA\u2019s Houston Rockets, are purchasing the WNBA\u2019s Connecticut Sun with the intention of moving the team to Houston, PaperCity Magazine and ESPN reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming season will be the last the Sun play in Connecticut, their home since 2003, before relocating to Houston ahead of the 2027 season. They will be renamed the Houston Comets after the city\u2019s previous WNBA franchise, according to PaperCity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/27\/fertitta-family-buy-connecticut-sun-move-houston-comets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fertittas buy Sun and plan Houston move for 2027 Houston Comets name set to return after sale closes Connecticut get one last season before relocation The Fertitta family, who own the NBA\u2019s Houston Rockets, are purchasing the WNBA\u2019s Connecticut Sun with the intention of moving the team to Houston, PaperCity Magazine and ESPN reported Friday. &#8230; <a title=\"WNBA\u2019s Connecticut Sun will move to Houston after $300m sale to Fertitta family\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/wnbas-connecticut-sun-will-move-to-houston-after-300m-sale-to-fertitta-family\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WNBA\u2019s Connecticut Sun will move to Houston after $300m sale to Fertitta family\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}