The Connecticut Sun tickets are a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Uncasville, Connecticut. They began to play in the 2003 WNBA season. The Sun was the first WNBA franchise not to be owned by an NBA owner; the team is owned by the Mohegan Indian tribe. From 1999 to 2002, the team was known as the Orlando Miracle, playing in Orlando, Florida. Capitalizing on the popularity of women's basketball in Connecticut as a result of the success of the UConn Huskies, they have the distinction of being the only WNBA team not to share its market with an NBA team (although the Charlotte Sting were the only professional basketball team in Charlotte for two seasons from the departure of the former Charlotte Hornets to New Orleans in 2002 to the first season of the expansion Charlotte Bobcats in 2004).
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