Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Houston Rockets, has also submitted a bid to the WNBA for an expansion team, a spokesperson for the Rockets confirmed to The Athletic. The prospective team would play its games at the Toyota Center, where the Rockets play.

Philadelphia joins Detroit, Nashville, and a variety of other cities in gunning for an expansion squad in the league. The City of Brotherly Love has never had a WNBA team, but it was briefly home to the Philadelphia Rage of the old American Basketball League in the 1990s, who played at Penn's Palestra.

The Detroit Pistons and Philadelphia 76ers are both looking to bring the WNBA to their respective cities. The Pistons announced Friday that team governor

Jayson Tatum scored 13 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter and the Celtics rallied from a 26-point deficit to beat the Sixers.

Jayson Tatum delivered 35 points and 11 assists as the visiting Boston Celtics rallied from a 26-point, second-half deficit to defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 118-110 on Sunday.