{"id":161116,"date":"2025-01-30T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swishappeal.com\/wnba\/2025\/1\/30\/24355450\/wnba-expansion-team-bid-tennessee-summitt-nashville-pat-candace-parker-peyton-manning-tim-faith-vols"},"modified":"2025-01-30T21:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:30:25","slug":"will-the-tennessee-summitt-be-the-wnbas-16th-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/will-the-tennessee-summitt-be-the-wnbas-16th-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Tennessee Summitt be the WNBA\u2019s 16th team?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Candace Parker is part of an ownership group that seeks to establish a WNBA team named after Pat Summitt. | SetNumber: X77823 TK1 R1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A group of led by Bill Haslam, and including Candace Parker and Peyton Manning, has introduced a bid to make the Nashville-based Tennessee Summitt, named after the late Lady Vols coach, the WNBA\u2019s 16th team. <\/p>\n

Earlier this week, our Chelsea Leite pulled tarot cards<\/a> in an effort to divine what might happen in the WNBA<\/a> in 2025. She interpreted the Aces of Cups, the first card she drew, as a sign of new beginnings, writing that<\/a>, \u201cLike it or not, this is not the WNBA of the past. The league is entering a new era, transforming into something new.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will a 16th WNBA team in the state of Tennessee be part of the league\u2019s transformation?<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a group of famed Tennesseans, headlined by Candace Parker, Peyton Manning and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, submitted a bid to the WNBA for franchise that would begin play in 2028. Bill Haslam, a former Tennessee governor who now is chairman of the NHL\u2019s Nashville Predators, is the leader of the group. The team would be called the Tennessee Summitt, named in honor of the late, great Tennessee Lady Vols head coach Pat Summitt.<\/p>\n

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