{"id":36716,"date":"2024-11-21T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=36716"},"modified":"2024-11-21T01:31:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:31:19","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-owner-considers-forming-womens-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/cleveland-cavaliers-owner-considers-forming-womens-basketball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers Owner Considers Forming Women&#8217;s Basketball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r2940881840622973996\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is reportedly planning to propose the creation of a new women\u2019s basketball team to compete in the WNBA, over 20 years after the city\u2019s previous team folded.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-a:r2940881840622973996-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Agence France-Presse, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert expressed optimism about expanding the league to 16 teams by 2028. She recently announced that Toronto and Portland would join the league in 2026, with Golden State Valkyries set to debut next season.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A CNBC report highlighted that Gilbert&#8217;s proposal comes amid growing interest in women\u2019s basketball, driven by the outstanding performances of rising stars.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Neither the WNBA nor Rock Entertainment Group, owned by Gilbert, responded to requests for comment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Cleveland\u2019s previous women\u2019s basketball team, the Cleveland Rockers, folded in 2003 due to poor attendance, according to the team\u2019s former owner.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is reportedly planning to propose the creation of a new women\u2019s basketball team to compete in the WNBA, over 20 years after the city\u2019s previous team folded. According to Agence France-Presse, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert expressed optimism about expanding the league to 16 teams by 2028. She &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36717,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36716\/revisions\/36717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}