The Connecticut Sun are being sold to billionaire Tilman Fertitta for a reported $300 million, and the team is expected to relocate to Houston for the 2027 season, reviving the former Houston Comets franchise.
The Houston Comets were the WNBA’s first dynasty, winning four consecutive championships from 1997 to 2000. Then, in 2008, the team disbanded.
But the Comets are reportedly close to being revived.
According to reports from ESPN and Houston’s Paper City Magazine Friday, March 27, the Connecticut Sun are being sold to the Fertitta family and the name is expected to be changed back to the Comets. Tilman Fertitta, a Texas-based billionaire who is also the current U.S. Ambassador to Italy, owns the NBA’s Houston Rockets.
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