Former NBA player Michael Carter-Williams is hoping to get a WNBA franchise in Boston whether it’s through expansion or being a destination for a current team that wants to move.
He’s part of The Boston Women’s Basketball Partners group that is spearheading the initiative. The group hasn’t submitted a bid to the WNBA although they’ve talked with the company that the league hired to handle the expansion bids process.
“The main objective is to get a team in Boston,” Carter-Williams said in a phone interview Thursday. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an expansion team or a team that wants to sell and move to Boston.”
Carter-Williams said his group has all their “ducks in a row” when it comes to where it would play and practice facility space. Now, he said, they just need a franchise.
Boston hosted a sold out WNBA game last year when the Connecticut Sun played a contest at the TD Garden — home of the Boston Celtics. Another regular-season game will be played at TD Garden this year when Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever take on the Sun.
Carter-Williams said his group would “absolutely” be interested if the Sun were up for sale. But that’s a big if since it seems there has been no discussion about the Mohegan Tribe selling the team.
“It’s something we would…
