Posted on 03/25/2024 2:26:24 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Remember the WNBA? The women’s basketball league the NBA started to draw more women into watching basketball? In it’s inaugural season, the WNBA finals drew 2.85 million viewers, when the Houston Comets won the first of their four championships.
It’s never reached those heights again, and the Comets folded in 2008. There was a mild uptick to 728,000 viewers last year.
So you’d think the league would welcome an exciting, highly skilled new breakout player.
You’d be wrong.
- “For almost three decades the WNBA has been a laughing stock and disgrace of a professional sports league that only survives due to NBA subsidies.”
- “A possible turning point for this sad existence of a league has arrived in the form of a basketball messiah.”
- “Caitlin Clark, the greatest and most popular female college basketball player of all time, has announced she’ll be joining the WNBA this upcoming season, and some think she can do for the WNBA what Larry, Magic or Jordan did for the NBA.” I think she can make it more popular, but I sincerely doubt she can produce the same boost that trio gave to the NBA’s fortunes. “The WNBA’s players don’t want Caitlin Clark to succeed.”
- “The WNBA is made up primarily of players who’ve been infected with the false ideas of modern feminism, which heavily focuses on issues related to race, sexuality, gender identity and participating in the oppression Olympics.” I would say “Get woke, go broke,” but the WNBA was already broke without NBA subsidies.
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- “The first problem Clark will face is that she will be a straight player in a primarily LGBT dominated league, which some of you may think is nonsense and won’t have any effect.”
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Who watches the WNBA? No one. I barely watch the NBA, maybe a game or two during the playoffs. Regular season? Never. So why would I watch a slowed-down second-class version of the NBA? I won’t. Caitlin Clark will however be a breath of fresh air. I still won’t watch.
I don’t follow this league
Have the trans men started playing for wnba?
“The WNBA’s players don’t want Caitlin Clark to succeed”
Is there any evidence to support that, or is it just the guys opinion?
HOW DARE SHE!
She shouldn't play in the WNBA then. She's famous. Maybe play in the Olympics. Get endorsements and make some money. If she wants to stay in the field, she can coach college basketball.
WAIT UNTIL THE BULLS GO AGAINST HER. SHE’ D BE BETTER IN EUROPE!
Who needs evidence nowadays?
Caitlin Clark might have the only white straight privilege in the WNBA!
I wish her luck and great success.
I feel bad for her if she goes to the wnba. She won’t be accepted there.
I keep hearing chatter that Caitlin Clark might get drafted by an NBA team. Her shooting is good enough to make up for her lack of a floor game.
Other than women’s gymnastics, women’s sports are boring. Slower and can’t jump. High school boys beat the women’s Olympic soccer team. The #200 male tennis player is better than the #1 woman. Just not worth watching.
Although women’s beach volleyball is fun
AND CHRISTIAN (catholic). Love it, but, unfortunately she will not succeed because the wnba is not bout ticket sales or basic business principles.
She’s already making millions. The WNBA should market her like the NBA did Jordan and Bird...but they won’t...they’re too woke for that. She does have a year of eligibility left..because of Covid.....she’d be better off staying and playing in sold out arenas..but she probably doesn’t want an asterisk by all of her records.
Wait, do you mean to tell me there’s a professional basketball league with women in it?
Slow? You must be talking about the men’s NCAA teams. Iowa women avg 90 points/game.....it’s NOT a slow paced game. Try to catch up. Gymnastics? How old are you? That’s a bit creepy.
“Caitlin Clark, the greatest and most popular female college basketball player of all time, has announced she’ll be joining the WNBA.”
I hope she stands for the national anthem.
Like you said she doesn't belong in the league due to other factors, nothing to do with her talent.
I would recognize that and do something else instead. That's just me though.
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