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Update on the WNBA’s investigation into Aces-LVCVA deal
Over at The IX, Howard Megdal provides an update on the changing nature of the WNBA’s investigation into the increasingly murky arrangement between the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCA) and Las Vegas Aces’ players. At the beginning of the season, the LVCVA presented a $100,000 sponsorship to all team members for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
According to Megdal’s reporting, the initial perception that the LVCVA had worked out the deals with players’ agents was false. His reporting additionally suggests that the proposed arrangement was a surprise to the organization. And yet, a camera crew was present to film the announcement. Medgal writes:
Clearly, it all gets complicated, fast, while making much of the initially claimed arrangement somewhere between demonstrably false and extremely hazy. If the LVCVA had no contact about this arrangement whatsoever with the franchise — because any collusion on it would violate the WNBA collective bargaining agreement — and no agreement was made with the agents, exactly how did the LVCVA come to present this $1.2 million per year for the next two years…
