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Connecticut Sun rookie: ‘If it was up to me, we might relocate [to Boston]’
"I think we can make a lot of noise here starting tonight, so I’m just excited to be a part of it.”
Ahead of the Connecticut Sun’s sold-out game at TD Garden against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever, Sun rookie guard Saniya Rivers spoke highly of her team’s temporary home venue.
“If it was up to me, we might relocate here,” Rivers said of Boston on Tuesday while speaking with MassLive’s Kenneth Manoj, before adding: “[Boston is] a great city, has great food, great shops — I love to shop. So just being able to come to the neighboring city and just play here, I think it [does] a lot for women’s basketball in general, you know, get some noise around here [and] get people supporting women’s basketball.
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“Hopefully, maybe they can advocate for us to, you know, maybe even relocate. I love Connecticut, it’s fine, but I think the marketing here itself is just going to be better for a women’s basketball program and I think we can make a lot of noise here starting tonight, so I’m just excited to be a part of it.”
Tuesday marks the second straight season where the Sun have held a game at TD Garden. The WNBA franchise recorded a sell-out crowd in Boston in August 2024 in a game against the Los Angeles Sparks before replicating the feat on Tuesday against Clark and Co.
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The Sun had 19,156 tickets sold for Tuesday’s game — the third sell out of the 2025 season, the third highest attendance to a WNBA game this season to date, and the second largest number of tickets sold to a Sun game in the franchise’s history.
Given the impressive attendance numbers in Boston, it should come as little surprise that this market has been linked to the Sun as team ownership reportedly weighs selling the team.
But earlier this month, Boston Women’s Basketball Partners spokesman AJ Gerritson told The Boston Globe‘s Gary Washburn that the Mohegan Tribe — which owns the Sun — is choosing to seek new investors for the team to keep them in Connecticut for the foreseeable future.
“In terms of the path forward for us, it looks more and more like it’s going to be expansion,” Gerritson told Washburn regarding Boston Women’s Basketball Partners’ chances of landing a WNBA team. “And in terms of the expansion process, we weren’t able to submit a formal bid last time it was open purely because of timing. Since then, we have worked tirelessly to meet and exceed all standards for expansion.”
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Even if the Mohegan Tribe are steadfast in their desire to keep the team in Connecticut, Rivers’ comments are just the latest in a long line of endorsements broadcast by Sun players about Boston’s viability as a WNBA market.
“Definitely hope this isn’t the last time that there’s a women’s game here, especially for our team,” then-Sun guard DiJonai Carrington told reporters after last year’s game at TD Garden. “I just think the crowd was incredible.
“There were lulls for us offensively when we weren’t scoring, but the crowd was never out of it. They were chanting the whole entire game. I think they gave us energy, I think they gave us that little boost at the end of the game to finish strong.”
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