CREAM CITY. HEY, DIANA. WELL, THE BUCKS ARE USED TO THROWING PARTIES HERE IN DEER DISTRICT. I MEAN, WHO COULD FORGET THE 2021 CHAMPIONSHIP RUN THAT FLOODED THIS AREA WITH FANS ALL SUMMER LONG? NOW THE BUCKS ARE LOOKING FOR THAT SAME ENERGY WITH A WNBA TEAM. ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, THE BUCKS CONFIRMING TO 12 NEWS THEY PUT IN A BID TO BRING A WNBA FRANCHISE TO MILWAUKEE. I’M EXCITED TO HEAR IT COULD HAPPEN. THE BUCKS ARE SO HUGE. SO I FEEL LIKE MAYBE THEY CAN HAVE A HUGE WOMEN’S TEAM TOO. THE SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL IS REPORTING TEN OTHER CITIES AND REGIONS ARE ALSO PLACING BIDS, INCLUDING PHILADELPHIA, KANSAS CITY, CENTRAL FLORIDA, NASHVILLE AND DENVER. FORMER MARQUETTE BASKETBALL STAR AND PROFESSIONAL PLAYER CHLOE MAROTTA SAYS MILWAUKEE’S DEDICATED FANS WOULD WELCOME A WNBA TEAM. IT’S A PERFECT CITY. WE’RE NOT TOO BIG, BUT NOT TOO SMALL, SO YOU GET TO KNOW THE FANS PRETTY CLOSELY AND THEN YOU GET TO KNOW THE PLAYERS. SO CLOSELY. AND I THINK THAT’S WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT FOR FOR THE CITY TO HAVE. AND YOU PROBABLY FELT THAT YOURSELF AT YOUR TIME AT MARQUETTE, RIGHT? YEAH, DEFINITELY. I MEAN, IT WAS OUR FAN BASE WAS SO TIGHT KNIT AND WE KNEW ALL OF THE BIGGEST SUPPORTERS. MAROTTA CREDITING PLAYERS LIKE CAITLIN CLARK, ANGEL REESE AND MILWAUKEE’S OWN ARIKE OGUNBOWALE WITH LIFTING UP THE SPORT WITH RECORD ATTENDANCE AND TV RATINGS THIS SEASON. THERE’S SO MANY PEOPLE YOU CAN START TO PINPOINT AND PICK OUT, AND I THINK THAT’S WHAT’S IMPORTANT IS BACK IN THE DAY, THE LEGENDS STARTED THIS, BUT THERE WASN’T THAT SOCIAL MEDIA. THERE WASN’T THIS TV DRIVE, THIS MEDIA THAT BROUGHT IT TO LIFE. FANS THINKING ABOUT THE IMPACT A LOCAL WNBA TEAM COULD HAVE ON YOUNG ATHLETES TO HAVING REPRESENTATION FOR, YOU KNOW, YOUNG FEMALE BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO LOOK UP TO AND BE ABLE TO SEE PEOPLE PLAY PROFESSIONALLY WOULD BE WOULD BE AWESOME. EMILY, THIS IS PRETTY EXCITING. ANY IDEA WHEN THE WNBA WILL MAKE A DECISION? WELL, THE SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL IS REPORTING THAT THERE’S NO FIRM TIMELINE, BUT THE OUTLET DOES SAY THAT AN EXPANSION COULD HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 3 TO 4 YEARS AT A COS
Milwaukee submits bid for future WNBA team
Along with 12 to 15 other cities, Milwaukee has submitted a bid to be a future home of a WNBA expansion team
The Milwaukee Bucks ownership group has submitted a bid to be the home of a WNBA expansion team, WISN 12 News confirmed.The Sports Business Journal reported Milwaukee is among 12 to 15 other prospective cities and regions that are in proposal talks. That list includes Philadelphia, Austin, Kansas City, Miami, Central Florida, Nashville, Charlotte, Denver and Cleveland.Despite the new bid, this isn’t the first time Milwaukee has hooped around with the idea of professional women’s basketball.The Milwaukee Does played in the Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL) for three seasons (1978-1980) in Milwaukee at the Panther Arena, then MECCA Arena. After the 1980 season, the Does left the league, and the year after that, the WBL folded.In an interview with WISN 12 News, OnMilwaukee.com senior writer Molly Snyder said she talked with the Milwaukee Bucks DJ about the Does.”The right time for the Does was not in the ’70s and ’80s, but it did happen, and that’s what’s important, and it happened in Milwaukee,” DJ Shawna said in April. “The Does blazed a path and were pioneers for the next generation of women basketball players.”In 2014, the Milwaukee Aces, a semi-professional women’s basketball team, was formed, but the COVID-19 pandemic shut it down in 2020.This is a developing story.
MILWAUKEE —
The Milwaukee Bucks ownership group has submitted a bid to be the home of a WNBA expansion team, WISN 12 News confirmed.
The Sports Business Journal reported Milwaukee is among 12 to 15 other prospective cities and regions that are in proposal talks. That list includes Philadelphia, Austin, Kansas City, Miami, Central Florida, Nashville, Charlotte, Denver and Cleveland.
Despite the new bid, this isn’t the first time Milwaukee has hooped around with the idea of professional women’s basketball.
The Milwaukee Does played in the Women’s Pro Basketball League (WBL) for three seasons (1978-1980) in Milwaukee at the Panther Arena, then MECCA Arena.
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