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Going back to the WNBA’s inception, synergy between the Bulls and the league has been hard to come by .
Despite insistence from Hall of Fame commissioner David Stern and Val Ackerman, the WNBA’s first president, that Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf could be the keeper of basketball in Chicago year round, he had no interest. So, eight years after the league’s inaugural season, Michael Alter and a group of local investors brought the WNBA to the Windy City.
Unlike a number of other WNBA teams — the Fever, Lynx, Liberty, Mercury, Mystics and Valkyries — the Sky have never been affiliated with an NBA counterpart.