Morgan Tuck will relocate with the Connecticut Sun and remain general manager when the franchise becomes the Houston Comets in 2027.
Morgan Tuck will relocate with the Connecticut Sun to Houston and keep her job as the franchise's general manager when it plays its first season as the Houston Comets in 2027, CT Insider reported Wednesday.
Tuck won four NCAA championships at UConn and a 2020 WNBA title with the Seattle Storm. She told CT Insider she is "very excited about the future."
The move settles one of the front-office questions Houston ownership raised in May. At a May 14 press conference at Toyota Center, Houston Rockets vice chairman Patrick Fertitta said the franchise hoped to retain several members of the Sun's front office, including Tuck and team president Jennifer Rizzotti.
Fertitta singled out Tuck's work on the basketball side of the rebuild.
"There are wonderful people coming over from the Sun," Patrick Fertitta said. "Jen Rizzotti has been there for a long time and done a wonderful job … and Morgan Tuck, who has been there for a few years, has a WNBA championship in her own right and has done a fantastic job helping build that team and running the team on the basketball side."
"I think it starts with people, and I couldn't be more excited, enthusiastic and confident in the people who are going to help run the organization here," Fertitta continued.
A day earlier, on May 13, the WNBA and NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale of the Sun from the Mohegan Tribe to Rockets owner Tilman J. Fertitta. The price was $300 million, a record for a WNBA team. The two sides first announced the agreement on March 30, days after the Fertitta family's move to acquire the Sun was first reported.
A group led by former Boston Celtics minority owner Stephen Pagliuca had offered $325 million to move the franchise to Boston. The league said relocation decisions belonged to the Board of Governors and not to individual teams.
Tuck's Path to the Job
Connecticut drafted Tuck with the third overall pick in 2016. She played her first four WNBA seasons with the Sun before finishing her career with the 2020 Storm.
In 2021, she returned to the Sun as director of franchise development. She spent the next two years as assistant general manager.
The Sun promoted her to general manager in December 2024, replacing Darius Taylor, who moved into a role as chief basketball strategist and director of scouting. Connecticut hired coach Rachid Meziane one day later.
Her first offseason in charge followed the departure of coach Stephanie White and the entire 2024 starting lineup. Connecticut went 11-33 in 2025. The club was eliminated from playoff contention again in August, its second straight season out of the postseason under Meziane.
Announcing the sale in March gave the Sun an answer on their future before free agency opened in April.
"Morgan started last offseason with the rebuild after our old roster turned over," Sun president Jennifer Rizzotti told The Associated Press. "She will now have clarity and strategic decisions regardless where it is if we remained in Connecticut or moving."
Houston's Front Office
Houston made its first front-office hire before the sale was approved. Kevin Pelton, a longtime ESPN analyst who worked as a statistical consultant for the Indiana Pacers from 2010 to 2012, joined as assistant general manager and vice president of analytics. He has worked with Tuck and Rizzotti through the Sun's final season in Connecticut.
Rizzotti said strategic decisions for the 2026 season fell to her on the business side and to Tuck on the basketball side, with Houston looped in only to a certain extent until the sale became official.
"The feeling that I have been given so far is that everybody that's working for this organization is welcome to go to Houston," Rizzotti said. "… Coaches, players, they're Houston property immediately, but it's the business staff that gets a little bit tougher because we're still here operating the business side of this organization while they're about to get up and running down in Houston."
Houston business executives met with Sun staff May 18 to begin discussions about which employees would relocate. Gretchen Sheirr, the club's president of business operations, said the Comets will have a dedicated operations structure while some Rockets employees move to the WNBA side.
The Mohegan Tribe bought the franchise for roughly $10 million and moved it from Orlando to Uncasville in 2003. The original Comets won the WNBA's first four championships, from 1997 through 2000, and Cynthia Cooper welcomed the franchise's return after the sale was announced. That team played its last game Sept. 15, 2008, and suspended operations months later.
The Comets will play home games at Toyota Center beginning in 2027. Connecticut closes its regular season Sept. 24 at home against the Toronto Tempo.
