Oregon’s WNBA team stepped back in time for its new name, reintroducing the Portland Fire. The expansion franchise, which begins play next next season alongside the Toronto Tempo, announced its name a

The excitement around the Fire is already heating up. Portland has surpassed 10,000 season ticket deposits and is reportedly on track to surpass a previous WNBA season ticket record set by the Golden State Valkyries earlier this year. The Valkyries have seemingly become the unofficial standard for expansion franchises in the W.

Don’t name your new WNBA team Portland Fire if you aren’t prepared to have your welcome party during a heat wave. It might not be a universal lesson, but it was an important one learned, possibly too late,