Eminem is advocating for a Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (WNBA) staff in his house of Detroit, becoming a member of a bid group to increase the league to his metropolis.
Sources inform Sportico that Eminem is only one of many who wish to see Detroit take part within the WNBA, with the bid group comprised of a few of the metropolis’s “most outstanding sports activities house owners, executives and athletes.” Whereas specifics of the attainable enlargement weren’t revealed, different factions are supposedly trying into shelling out about 9 figures in money.
Led by the Detroit Pistons and the staff’s proprietor, Tom Gores, the group of bidders additionally embrace house owners of town’s NHL staff the Pink Wings, the MLB’s Tigers staff, the NFL’s Lions staff, former NBA gamers Grant Hill and Chris Webber, Lions quarterback Jared Goff, Common Motors CEO Mary Barra and extra.
Neither Eminem’s nor the Pistons’ reps have launched statements.
As Sportico factors out, the WNBA’s latest expansions into Toronto, San Francisco and Portland are backed by NBA house owners, and this spherical of bidding (which led to January) isn’t any completely different. Over 10 cities submitted proposals forward of the deadline, masking Austin, Charlotte, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas Metropolis, Nashville and Philadelphia.
If Detroit is granted a WNBA franchise, the staff would name Little Caesars Area its shared house alongside the Pistons and Pink Wings.
