Another WNBA team in Canada? Vancouver group says it’s ‘forming’ bid

One Vancouver group would like to see a second WNBA team in Canada and has made its hopes of winning a bid for an expansion team public.

"We decided, with all the interest in the WNBA, that we want to do something about it. We just got us all together and (said) 'let's get going,' Bill Bakk, a former Deloitte executive who is leading the group, said on Canada's Global News Monday.

'(We have) not been invited to do anything. You talk in terms of bid ― there's no formal bid process established right now. We're getting our own going. We're forming what it should look like. So we're jumping ahead. We're trying to win it."

Bakk was joined by former Canadian basketball Olympian and vice chair of Deloitte Canada, Jodi Evans, and recently retired University of British Columbia men’s basketball coach Kevin Hanson. His group says this process has been quietly in the works for close to a year, but it hopes to put a formal bid in with the WNBA within the next "two to three years", eyeing a potential 2031 launch if approved.

The Toronto Tempo, the league's first Canadian Expansion team, made its debut in 2026…

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