The Connecticut Sun will move to Houston starting with the 2027 season after the WNBA and NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale and relocation of the team on May 13, 2026. The franchise was sold from the Mohegan Tribe to Tilman J. Fertitta.
For now, the Sun are staying put. Mohegan Sun Arena will remain the team’s home for the 2026 WNBA season, giving Connecticut one last full year with the club before the relocation takes effect.
The team also has a short farewell tour of sorts on the calendar. The Sun will host regular-season games at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford on May 30 and July 2, 2026, and will return to Boston for a matchup at TD Garden on August 18, 2026. Those dates matter because they show the move is approved but not immediate, leaving Connecticut fans with a final season to see the team before it heads south.
The approval settles a major ownership change, but it does not erase the awkward in-between period that follows. The Sun will still play out the 2026 season in Connecticut even as the organization prepares for Houston, a split reality that gives local supporters one last year of games and the new owner time to line up the transition.
What happens next is clear enough: the 2026 season will unfold in Connecticut, then the franchise will begin its Houston chapter in 2027. For the Sun, the decision closes one era and sets up another, with the last months in Mohegan and the dates in Hartford and Boston now serving as the final stops before the move becomes permanent.
