Article on Atlanta's search for a new home. Good news - they're not locked into a long-term contract with Gateway. Bad news - they don't think they're ready to move full time into State Farm, home of the Hawks. So there's a chance they move into a place that's between Gateway's 4k seats and State Farm's 14k seats, but nothing's been decided.
The article is from December 2023. A lot has happened since then. It’s all complicated and manipulative weaseling by the slimy owners. I am not 100% sure of everything, but I think in sum, the Mystics arena , which the city of DC owns, got a corporate sponsor, it’s called First Care Arena. They negotiated that the Mystics can move a certain number of games to the NBA arena, Capital One; however, this season they are repairing Capital One so only four games got moved-two to Baltimore and two to Virginia. But next year, more games will be at capital one (20k capacity).
A lot of this came about because the sleezy owner (Ted Leonsis) tried to screw DC and move the Wizards to Virginia, but Virginia didn’t want them. A 90 year Virginia state senator stood up the owner and his shenanigans and blocked the whole deal. It was awesome!!
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Article on Atlanta's search for a new home. Good news - they're not locked into a long-term contract with Gateway. Bad news - they don't think they're ready to move full time into State Farm, home of the Hawks. So there's a chance they move into a place that's between Gateway's 4k seats and State Farm's 14k seats, but nothing's been decided.
For Washington there's no good news. They're locked in a long-term lease until 2037 and the state isn't interested in letting them leave.