WNBA Investigates Aces Deal

Reactions from the team

Aces coach Becky Hammon said that the tourism bureau reached out to all the individual players and agents and wanted to have a sponsorship deal with all of them, but that the Aces organization wasn’t involved in it.

“I’m going to put it to you real simple like this: Most of sponsorship people go after the top two people,” Hammon said. “A’ja Wilson is taken care of — she’s got plenty of stuff going on. Kelsey Plum has plenty of stuff. In this situation, from what I understand, is they wanted the whole team. So they went and called individuals, agents. I don’t know the details. I have nothing to do with it; the Aces don’t have anything to do with it. It’s just odd, but that’s basically what happened.”

“We get [things] from our agents all the time. They wanted it to be a big moment because it’s something that’s never happened before.” Wilson said. “I don’t understand the investigation; I haven’t dived into it yet but I just looked at my phone [after the game] and was like, ‘Oh, wow, just another day in the life of the Aces.’ We can’t ever start just normal, it’s always going to be something, and that’s OK.”