Parker made it clear she's on board with the 76ers bringing a WNBA team to town if the new arena gets built. But just like that hasn't happened yet, there's still no official bid on the table.
Parker made it clear she's on board with the 76ers bringing a WNBA team to town if the new arena gets built. But just like that hasn't happened yet, there's still no official bid on the table.
Still, that one line came in a deck that had Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s name and face on its first page, and Parker didn’t say who those women were, nor did she put an exact date on the meeting, beyond saying it was “in the middle of COVID.” But a separate source confirmed that the group included actor and comedian Wanda Sykes, who was part of a Philadelphia WNBA bid that came together around that time.The Athletic reported in June 2022
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