Over 19,000 people filled TD Garden Tuesday night for a WNBA game between the Connecticut Sun and the Indiana Fever. There were celebrity appearances from Boston’s top athletes and a raging crowd that roared with every tough bucket and basketball highlight.

That was a different WNBA than the one that tipped off this spring. Nielsen reported a 201% spike in viewership from 2023 to 2024. That climb is now at 791% since the start of 2017. Sportico estimated the Sun’s value at $80 million last year, a significant growth from the last time ownership changed hands.

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.

Today, the Connecticut Sun announced that its game against the Indiana Fever on July 15 at 8:00PM EST has officially sold out. This game will be the second-ever WNBA game to be held at TD Garden, after the Sun defeated the Los Angeles Sparks at TD Garden on August 20,

What's clear is that Providence would face stiff competition from Boston, where the Connecticut Sun already have an established audience.

The chances of bringing the WNBA to Providence remains slim, but WPRI’s Eli Sherman reported Friday that Governor Dan McKee had a meeting to discuss the possibility of relocating the Connecticut Sun to Providence.

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.