Posted on 10/01/2024 8:20:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The first weekend of the WNBA playoffs without rookie phenom Caitlin Clark were a bit quieter in terms of attention and viewership.
After Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers to her first playoff game against the Connecticut Sun on Sept. 22, while competing with an NFL Sunday, she followed it up with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for Game 2. Clark and the Indiana Fever lost both those games, however, sending Clark home for the offseason.
Now, the remaining teams contending for the WNBA title are the New York Liberty, the defending champion Las Vegas Aces and MVP A'ja Wilson, the Sun and the Minnesota Lynx.
The first game between the Aces and Liberty, a rematch of last year's WNBA finals between two of the league's most popular and successful teams, drew an audience of 929,000, ESPN announced, which is 50% less than the Fever's Game 1 against the Sun. Still, it was historically good for any WNBA playoff game that doesn't involve Clark, as it was better than any of the TV numbers for the finals games between the two teams last year.
Meanwhile, Game 1 of the Sun-Lynx series had an audience of just around 650,000.
Both of those games have also fallen well behind some of Clark's regular season games in terms of viewership as well. In early September, Clark’s Indiana Fever played in front of a TV audience of 1.26 million viewers, in a game against the Minnesota Lynx that was played at the same time as a Week-1 Friday night NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
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Kamala supporters are dead to me.
Ha ha. Funny.
Are they still playing?
Are there any pictures of her when she was young? ‘cause she looks very suspicious to me.
From here on out, refrain from placing bets on heterosexual players.
Is it true that the wnba uses smaller basketballs and have lower rims on goals?
Well, she plays like a boy.
Loved watching Fever play. Gainbridge was rockin. CC brought energy and lifted the team up. But not without controversy. The homosexual and racist streaks are toxic and will drive away viewers.
I cared zero, I now care zero.🤣
Of course not. The larger circumference rims just make the ball look smaller.
This makes me 😁
Smaller balls yes. Women’s balls have always been smaller, even in high school. Rims are same height though.
From 3.4 to 3.2?
From 2.54 million to 0.9.
CC is so good that she can handle it. But for everyone else, rims should be lowered.
The league needs to crack down on that. It's not a problem in NCAA.
I know, I’m not so sure she’s even a biological woman.
They use a soccer ball.
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