HARTFORD, Conn. — Gov. Ned Lamont is weighing a plan to use state pension funds to help keep the Connecticut Sun in the state, as competing bids raise the possibility of the WNBA franchise relocating.

A Boston group has offered more than $325 million to buy the team and move it by 2027. Another bid would keep the Sun in Connecticut, with discussions about shifting more games to Hartford's PeoplesBank Arena.

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Lamont said Wednesday there are “a couple of different offers on the table and they’re still being negotiated,” adding that any purchase involving the state would go through a strict advisory board.

He stressed that private investors would be central to the deal.

Republican lawmakers objected to the

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