From left, Golden State Warriors CEO Joe Lacob, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert and Warriors Co-Executive Chairman Peter Guber pose for pictures after an WNBA expansion franchise for the San Francisco Bay Area was announced at Chase Center in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 5, 2023.
SAN FRANCISCO — Joe Lacob's love and support of women's basketball dates back nearly three decades to when he became one of the original investors in the former American Basketball League.
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced an expansion team will begin play in the San Francisco Bay Area for the 2025 season. Engelbert has faced constant questions about when the league would expand, to which she would reply when the time was right. The WNBA, which started in 1997, currently has 12 teams.
“I’ve made no secret, I’ve been to Portland, I’ve been to Denver, I’ve been to Toronto. We had a sold-out preseason game in Toronto this year,” she said. “Philadelphia, there’s many — Charlotte.” Not yet named — Lacob says that will be soon and he's receiving a flood of suggestions — the organization will be headquartered and train in the Warriors' former practice facility in Oakland where the Warriors still hold their youth summer camps.
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