The Sixers and Mayor Cherelle Parker say they want to bring a WNBA team to Philadelphia
Still, that one line came in a deck that had Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s name and face on its first page, and on Thursday morning, the Sixers confirmed their interest in bringing a team here.
“We share in Mayor Parker’s desire to bring a WNBA franchise to Philadelphia and have been engaged with the league on the process,” a team spokesperson told The Inquirer. “Our goal is for our new arena to serve as home to both the 76ers and a WNBA franchise.”
On Wednesday night, Parker said at the news conference: “I know you notice we don’t have a WNBA team here in the city of Philadelphia. Any of y’all ever noticed that? Y’all know y’all’s mayor don’t like that.”
Nor did she like it when she was City Council’s majority leader from 2020 to 2022. During her tenure, she met with “a dynamic group of women who had been working for a very, very long time to put together the potential for Philadelphia to see a team one day.”
Parker didn’t say who those women were, nor did she put an exact date on the meeting, beyond saying it was “in the middle of COVID.” But a separate source confirmed that the group included actor and comedian Wanda Sykes, who was part of a Philadelphia WNBA bid that came together around that time.
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