Agree...it should be an international league...maybe that this whole brouhaha is to publicize the league and get people to watch the soap opera like drama.
New league should have 6 teams in America.two teams in South America, two european teams, 2 Asian teams to start.Womens basketball is big overseas....lots of wnba players go overseas to augment their income.
My prediction. Clark and at least five other WNBA players go to some European league, and stay there for 3 years....building up significant interest. Some US media company buys into the broadcast rights, and bring Euro-league games to the US audience...beating WNBA ratings.
Clark ends up dumping Nike for Puma.
By 2027, the NBA finally tells the WNBA that they are finished on financially helping the WNBA, and that the WNBA has to rig up some merger of the Euro league and themselves, with the understanding that all this LGBTQ stuff has to dissolve away, and DEI gimmicks must disappear.
You end up with 24 women’s teams between Europe/US.
That would work
There is an international leauge. Our players from the US are well repesented on national teams and EU leauges.