The Connecticut Sun will play a historic duel at Boston’s TD Garden on Tuesday. A few days before the game, in which the Sun will face the Los Angeles Sparks, the duel is officially sold out, the team announced on Friday.
According to a statement, the Sun sold 19,156 tickets to fill TD Garden, home of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins, so the Sun will face the Sparks in front of the largest crowd in franchise history.
In this year of tremendous growth, the WNBA sold out more games; according to the WNBA, more than half of WNBA games were sold out this season.
The Sun have the second-best record in the league, selling out six times so far this season. Tuesday’s game will be the third-highest attendance game of the season.
The Sun typically play at Mohegan Sun Arena, which has a capacity of 10,000. The team is one of the few that does not have an NBA counterpart and one of only two – along with the Las Vegas Aces – that does not share its arena with another team.
Connecticut announced the Boston game in December as part of the release of its regular season schedule, citing the team’s desire to reach fans in the greater New England area.
Although the move was already planned, the Sun are not the first to move a game to a larger arena during the regular season. In May, the Atlanta Dream announced that the club would play its two home games against the Indiana Fever at State Farm Arena, the 16,888-seat home of the Atlanta Hawks. The first of those games took place on June 21, and the second on August 26.
The Washington Mystics also had to move a June 7 game against the Fever to accommodate the influx of (mostly Caitlin Clark-crazy) fans. The Mystics, who normally play at the 4,200-seat Entertainment and Sports Arena, moved the game against the Fever to the 20,356-capacity Capital One Arena, home of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals.
