Atlanta’s WNBA franchise taking shape: With players yet to be drafted, about 1,500 season tickets sold.

In the three months since Atlanta was awarded a WNBA expansion team, the fledgling franchise has moved into a downtown office building, hired senior staff and sold almost 1,500 season tickets. "It's amazing how much we've gotten done, and it's amazing how much we have left to get done," Bill Bolen, the team's president and chief operating officer, said Tuesday. Down the hall from his undecorated office in a building a few blocks from Philips Arena, salespeople are on the phone, drumming up season-ticket business. One floor below, general manager and head coach Marynell Meadors is in her office, preparing for her third start-up team in the 11-year-old league.
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