"Who do you like in the WNBA Playoffs?"
"In womens basketball I always root against the heterosexual."
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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Rim height and size is the same in both leagues. Women use a ball that is an inch smaller in circumference and two ounces lighter.
Where are all the feminists? They should be watching.
The data proves it, she is the draw. The WNBA doesn’t care because they can’t have a White gal being the face of the WNBA.
You mean a white straight gal.
The horrors, please tell me she's not religious.
Well she does support Commie-La.
not enough apparently
There is an international leauge. Our players from the US are well repesented on national teams and EU leauges.
Heterosexual white chicks from Iowa can’t jump! Everybody knows that. Ms. Clark’s season stats:
PTS
19.2
REB
5.7
AST
8.4
STL
1.3
For the first time in the existence of the league, the players are now riding private jets, not delta, with the doors falling off of the planes.
TV ratings way up, attendance up, merch sales, up and they hate her because she is white and straight and can beat the hell out of most of them on the court.
Clark is not the best player on the court, but she is the most impactful for the fan base, and it is killing the haters.
I'm not a wnba watcher, but I have turned on a coupla indy games to check her out this year, and she is better now than when she was in college...against thugs that are trying to take her head off.
The league officials better get smart and protect their best asset.
Got it. Thank you.
Some say lowering the rims in the WNBA to a height where the players could actually dunk would increase the excitement.
Watching women shoot layups isn’t very compelling.
The WNBA lives rent-free in the minds of many Freepers.
18 inch rim diameter, men’s ball is 9.39, leaving 8.61 of room, and a circle with area 58.22. Women’s ball is 9.07, leaving 8.93 of room, and a circle with area 62.61, an extra 7.5% of swishes.
Still playing; playoffs to a championship.
She’s a girl. Errr...woman, now, I guess.
No question, though; she’s good at what she does.
“Clark is not the best player on the court, but she is the most impactful for the fan base, and it is killing the haters.”
She plays like Larry Byrd. Byrd couldn’t jump, wasn’t fast, and would always beat you.
Fact.
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