{"id":91703,"date":"2025-07-25T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91703\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:29:10","slug":"cleveland-wnba-team-surpasses-5000-season-ticket-payments-ahead-of-inaugural-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91703\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland WNBA team surpasses 5,000 season ticket payments ahead of inaugural season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 The new Cleveland WNBA team has surpassed 5,000 initial payments for season ticket memberships ahead of its inaugural season at Rocket Arena in 2028. <\/p>\n<p>The team, which was announced as the WNBA&#8217;s 16th franchise on June 30, 2025, is owned and operated by Rock Entertainment Group, the entity behind Dan Gilbert&#8217;s sports and entertainment properties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clevelanders are showing the world what we have known for a long time \u2013 the passion this city and its fans hold for their sports teams is unrivaled,&#8221; said Nic Barlage, CEO of Rock Entertainment Group, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Rocket Arena. &#8220;We are preparing to establish a standard for how women\u2019s sports teams are championed, and our commitment is to reflect that same determination as we build a franchise and culture that\u2019s distinctly Cleveland and Ohio. This will empower future generations, create lasting connections, and deliver impact far beyond the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team is offering future team memberships for a $28 initial payment at <a href=\"https:\/\/WNBACleveland.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/WNBACleveland.com\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WNBACleveland.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 The new Cleveland WNBA team has surpassed 5,000 initial payments for season ticket memberships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[60845,16662,57023,20976,60848,60847,60846,62,67,132,68,232,1707],"class_list":{"0":"post-91703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-cleveland-wnba","9":"tag-dan-gilbert","10":"tag-franchise","11":"tag-inaugural-season","12":"tag-rock-entertainment-group","13":"tag-rocket-arena","14":"tag-season-ticket","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wnba","20":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114914588624048211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}