Former NBA star wants to bring WNBA team to Boston: “We’re doing everything possible”

It all began with a Thanksgiving conversation between Michael Carter-Williams and his mom, longtime basketball coach Mandy Carter-Zegarowski.

What if we brought a WNBA team to Boston?

Now, just a few months later, the 33-year-old former NBA player is leading the charge to make that dream a reality.

Everything came together quickly. Carter-Williams got connected with Donnie Wahlberg, a Boston-based actor and producer, and the two jointly launched the Boston Women’s Basketball Partners, a group that aims to submit an expansion bid to bring a WNBA franchise to Boston in the coming years.

For Carter-Williams, who was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2014 and

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