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The WNBA is finally, officially, coming to Toronto.
Kilmer Sports Ventures has won a professional women’s basketball team award.
The as-yet-unnamed team will play out of the Coca-Cola Coliseum, an arena in downtown Toronto at Exhibition Place.
Coca-Cola Coliseum is also home to the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League and hosted Toronto’s first Professional Women’s Hockey League team, as well as its first ever playoff games.
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Toronto’s WNBA team will begin play in May 2026.
CBS was the first to report on May 10 that the women’s professional basketball league had awarded a franchise to Kilmer Sports Ventures, led by Toronto businessman Larry Tanenbaum.
Tanenbaum is chairman and CEO of Kilmer Group and chairman of the board of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which owns the NBA’s Raptors and the NHL’s Maple Leafs.
This will be the first Canadian team in the league, which currently has 12 teams but is expanding.
Canada has hosted sold-out WNBA preseason games at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena in 2023 and Edmonton’s Rogers Place on May 4.
& copy 2024 The Canadian Press
