No, she hasn’t. Its never going to be profitable and make money on its own. Women dont support it. The only reason its existed for so long is because the nba gives it tens of millions of dollars a year to play to smaller crowds than high school basketball teams.
If it were an endeavor run by men it would have flopped a long time ago because no one would pump tens of millions of dollars into it for decades and have it never make money.
Remeber all the failed football leagues? No one propped them up this long. Real businesses get sponsors and start small, and grow because they attract fans. Decades and the womes leagues cannot do it. On top of it their entitlement mentality is so massive they think they should earn nba salaries.
Please explain to me why Roger Goodell is trying to recreate the NFL's image into the XFL, which failed 25 years ago?
No she hasn’t what?
Caitlin Clark is a real star. Sort of like Tiger Woods in golf.
Anyway, she has been out most of this season due to injuries. No one on her team has her back except for Sophia Cunningham.
Her team is not really supporting her, not even her coach.
She's being blackballed by the league.
If the WNBA consisted of six teams...all built like the ‘Fever’, with consistent great play, and all within 500 miles of each other...I think the league could be profitable and be unconnected to the NBA. I’m not saying NBA profitable, but probably making double what the league makes now.
The chief problem, over the past 20 years...they’ve sold themselves as the LGTBQ-league....as fashion-divas, and about half of the starting players by age 28 have peaked out (needing desperately to be forced into retirement). Half of the teams are in sub-standard arenas....just large enough to handle 5k guests.
“Its never going to be profitable and make money on its own.”
The NBA has poisoned the public by playing to one type of fan. And they have changed the game to match the needs and identity of the bonding. They have replaced the talented players with goons. And the violence continued to match up closer to what fans understood and that was just like the street ball played in every court in the US. Violence and dunk with an occasional long shot. And the league assisted with a three point line, a restricted area under the basket, and removing rules like hand checking while being more aggressive called illegal defenses while the shooters wer allowed to “make space” for their mid range jump shots by knocking defenders out of the way. So scoring and violence could continue.
The along comes women with graceful running of the floor and eye makeup and hair additions. The public wanted it like the men so the “beauty” of the game was cringed at. Soon the women got less womanly and going bigger and meaner to meet the standards of the men. But they couldn’t at first dunk, or get into enough fights to get it done. And the quality of their game could not compete. Now they have transitioned into a morphed kind of game still trying for the hair pieces but hitting more often.
Clark is the George Mikan or Bill Russel of the early stages and later Larry Bird and Magic Johnson till it reached Michael Jordon. And they were all targeted.
So until the women get rid of their reputation of being the gentler, softer sex, they will continue to fail. They have nothing to sell but controversy. Welcome Caitlan Clark. And who ever is next. The public doesn’t care who it is. Just as long as it looks like the game they play at outdoor high school courts across America. That they can identify with...and pay for. Welcome to the NBA/MMA.
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