"I think the market here itself is just going to be better for a women’s basketball program," said Sun guard Saniya Rivers.

Fans traveled locally and across state lines to cheer on their respective teams, and expressed their desire for Boston to have its own WNBA team. The post ‘We definitely need a WNBA team here’: Fans celebrate Suns-Fever sellout at TD Garden appeared first on Boston.

The Fever and Sun raved about the "amazing experience" of playing in front of a sellout crowd of 19,156 fans Tuesday night at Boston's TD Garden.

Former Stanley Cup champion Mike Rupp made his thoughts clear on what kind of reception longtime Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand will receive when he returns to TD Garden as a member of the Florid

I think the time is right you can see the energy, the excitement, the venue is large enough to host women’s professional basketball."

Healey praised the Sun for bringing so many figures from so many corners of sports and business together in the name of women’s sports.

Connecticut Sun guard Saniya Rivers spent almost her entire life in North Carolina before she was drafted into the WNBA, but the rookie truly became a New Englander on Monday when she tried her first lobster roll ahead of the Sun’s game against the Indiana Fever at TD Garden.

Fans sold out TD Garden for a highly anticipated WNBA game between the Connecticut Sun and the Indiana Fever Tuesday night. A lot of families and young basketball players were excited to see their role models hit the parquet.