At long last, it seems like the Bay Area will get a WNBA team.
and his history in women’s basketball. Lacob was the owner of the San Jose Lasers of the American Basketball League, a professional women’s league that existed from 1996 to 1998. The WNBA was founded in 1997 and effectively helped end the ABL.
With a Black woman in Beard as the point person, AASEG has not been shy about the potential value of its bid to the WNBA, which sees Black women make up more than 70% of the players in its league.“I’ve kind of felt like this is sort of tailor-made for Oakland,” AASEG founder and president Ray Bobbitt. “Just because the Warriors were in Oakland and then they left Oakland, and then we brought this to the table first.
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