A WNBA team may come to Austin, thanks to a multimillion-dollar bid led by former Texas Longhorns basketball champion Fran Harris. The women’s pro hoops league has already formalized plans to add franchises in Portland, San Francisco, and Toronto over the next two seasons, with room for one more city to join the league and bring the WNBA’s total number of teams to sixteen by 2028. Harris, a Dallas native who led UT women’s basketball to a national championship in 1986 and played for the WNBA-champion Houston Comets during the league’s inaugural season, told Texas Monthly she’d been dreaming about an opportunity like this for more than twenty years. “My first thought about ownership was the first day of the WNBA, in 1997, walking on that…
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