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Portland gets WNBA expansion franchise
Gallery: WNBA, fans celebrate Portland's new pro basketball team
Merage spoke about the yet-to-be-named team as an investment not only in the league, but in the local Portland community, adding that they intend to create jobs and wealth for those who work on or for the team.
The WNBA Announces New Expansion Team In Portland
BREAKING: The WNBA is officially returning to Portland. The league has announced the city will earn a new expansion franchise, owned and operated by RAJ Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. Play will tip off in 2026. pic.twitter.com/MsPACL2zIB
WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026
The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise.
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Commitment to build practice facility helped Portland secure 15th WNBA franchise
Alex Bhathal and Lisa Bhathal Merage, the brother-sister duo who recently purchased the NWSL’s Portland Thorns, are the ...
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Portland, a Hub of Women's Sports, Gets New WNBA Franchise
The WNBA is headed back to
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, with Oregon's biggest city getting an expansion team that will begin play in 2026. The ...
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Portland lands WNBA expansion franchise set to play in 2026
Professional women’s basketball will return to the Rose City for the first time in more than two decades after the WNBA ...
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The WNBA returns to Portland, billed as a ‘global epicenter’ for women’s sports
Ron Wyden’s voice boomed through Moda Center. The slender, 75-year-old U.S. senator could have been mistaken for an in-game ...
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