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Caitlin Clark is almost tripling WNBA average viewership when she plays — and doubling attendance
The Blaze ^ | JUNE 07, 2024 | ANDREW CHAPADOS

Posted on 06/07/2024 7:27:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Recent reports have shown that WNBA star Caitlin Clark has had a massive effect on the league's television viewership, coupled with the fact that she more than doubled the rest of the league's average attendance in a weekend.

According to a report by Outkick, through the first weekend of June 2024, WNBA games that featured Clark had an average of 1.099 million viewers. On the flip side, games without Clark averaged only 414,000 viewers.

The report noted that the 2023 WNBA season averaged 301,000 viewers per game.

It was only in mid-May 2024 that Clark played in the most watched WNBA game in 23 years, averaging 2.13 million viewers on ESPN2. A Memorial Day game on May 28, 2001, between the Los Angeles Sparks and Houston Comets was watched by an average of 2.45 million viewers on NBC.

The ratings have continued to pour in for the WNBA in Clark's games. Her clash with the Chicago Sky that was highlighted by a body check during an inbound play also brought in much higher viewership than average for the league.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: attendance; basketball; caitlinclark; viewership; wnba
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1 posted on 06/07/2024 7:27:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Sounds like her opponents need to bring her down a peg or two so that the WNBA goes back to obscurity.


2 posted on 06/07/2024 7:28:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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The crab is trying to leave the bucket, quick, pull her back in!


3 posted on 06/07/2024 7:29:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The WNBA “ is a bunch of angry lesbians fighting each other “, according to Jason Whitlock.

Caitlin Clark is the rare exception.


4 posted on 06/07/2024 7:30:20 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: MinorityRepublican

The racists ain’t gonna like this.


5 posted on 06/07/2024 7:30:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: dfwgator

It’s no wonder blacks are their own worst enemy. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Who’s gonna tell them that?

If it was me I’d tell them they’re lucky to come here as slaves. In Africa they’d be eating each other.


6 posted on 06/07/2024 7:32:02 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican

No need to panic about this — her teammates and the players on the opposing teams will put a stop to this.


7 posted on 06/07/2024 7:35:22 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: BrexitBen
Caitlin Clark is the rare exception.

One of the reasons why the fans love CC. They can relate to her. And yes, she's good.

It was the same deal with Larry Bird. He was a superstar. But at the same time, he looked like he could be your neighbor next door.

8 posted on 06/07/2024 7:35:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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“But, but, but whadda bout me”? (Angel Reece furiously raising her hand). “It’s ME people are interested in” “YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME!!!!”


9 posted on 06/07/2024 7:43:05 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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Blacks comprise about 13-14% of the American population.

Blacks comprise about 70% of the players in the WNBA.

If fairness were to be the guide for hiring in the WNBA, only about 13-14% of the players should be black.

Caitlin Clark is being discriminated against, and so are approximately 80% of white women who are not even considered to play in the WNBA. Cailin should be getting paid commensurate with the audience increases she’s bringing to the WNBA, and she’d be getting some $30-50 million in salary alone.


10 posted on 06/07/2024 7:44:28 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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While we’re on the numbers. Another important stat, Caitlin Clark scored 30 points or as I prefer to say she scored 35% of the Entire teams points.


11 posted on 06/07/2024 7:50:50 PM PDT by cquiggy
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Instead of applauding and supporting the new, exciting face of the WNBA, tear her down. Just like they did with Tiger Woods. Wait a minute......


12 posted on 06/07/2024 7:54:05 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Kick her out?


13 posted on 06/07/2024 7:56:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: cquiggy

Caitlin Clark WENT OFF in the Indiana Fever's win over the Mystics 🤯

30 PTS (53.3 FG%)
7 3PM (53.8 3PT%)
8 REB
6 AST
4 STL
38 Minutes#WelcometotheW | Commissioner's Cup presented by @coinbase pic.twitter.com/h2hfMR0P2O— WNBA (@WNBA) June 8, 2024


14 posted on 06/07/2024 7:58:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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For decades, race preoccupied activists unknowingly created the “black plague” of assumed racial oppression that resulted in black resentment of the common society.

Blacks resisted self improvement which would cause the loss of their secure position of victim-hood.

They denied the reality of success through ingenuity and industriousness, lapsing into failure. Others became convinced, via guilt, that this failure should be treated with free money, consequently enabling more racial dependence and failure.

Today racism is a mental condition of the black mind, an illness of the unconscious, causing self defeat. The WNBA is textbook.

15 posted on 06/07/2024 8:01:25 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: BrexitBen

Not all of them are lesbians


16 posted on 06/07/2024 8:02:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Not all of them are lesbians

Nah. 70%-90%, yes.

17 posted on 06/07/2024 8:04:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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She should walk away from WNBA next season and play overseas.
Then the WNBA will be relegated to the dust bin where it belongs. To Hades with the racist dikes.


18 posted on 06/07/2024 8:09:02 PM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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But the idiots in the league despise her because she’s white and hetero and they cannot abide that.


19 posted on 06/07/2024 8:12:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
“But, but, but whadda bout me”? (Angel Reece furiously raising her hand). “It’s ME people are interested in” “YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME!!!!”

Angel has a very high opinion of herself. Falsely so. Hate to break it to her but no one gives a sh*t about her.

20 posted on 06/07/2024 8:14:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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