WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert will visit Denver, Colorado on Wednesday to meet with investors and tour potential facilities as the city vies for an expansion team, according to the Denver Post. The WNBA will be expanding at some point in the next few years, though specifics have not been announced.
The investment team heading up Denver’s push for a team includes multiple prominent businesspeople based in the city, including Robert Cohen, Navin Dimond and his daughter, Ashley Dimond. Cohen, who sits on the board of the U.S. Olympic Museum and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, and Navin Dimond were previously involved in a failed effort to have Denver host the 2030 Winter Olympics.
Engelbert has made it clear time and again that she wants to add new teams to the league, but he timeline and location has often shifted.
- In June of 2022, she told The Athletic that the league had narrowed down the list of cities to 10-12, and hoped to announce the…
