[Washburn] Donnie Wahlberg and Michael Carter-Williams want to bring a WNBA expansion team to Boston
The Wahlberg/Carter-Williams group, named Boston Women’s Basketball Partners, would have to officially apply for a team and then be approved by the league’s owners, as well as pay an expansion fee. The Portland franchise paid a $125 million expansion free, while Sports Business Journal reported the Cleveland group paid a record $250 million.
“As a longtime Boston Celtics fan who attended countless NBA games in my lifetime, nothing would bring me more joy than to have a WNBA franchise in the city of Boston,” Wahlberg said in an email to the Globe. “I look forward to the day I can walk into the Garden, along with thousands of the greatest (and most knowledgeable) basketball fans on the planet, to root for Boston’s hometown WNBA team.”
Other members of Boston Women’s Basketball Partners include former Salem State player Mandy Carter-Zegarowski, media executive AJ Gerritson, real estate developer Paul Dahn, financial adviser Bob Lemmond, and lobbyist Gregg Nolan.