That's essentially what people are wanting the NBA to do anyways, so the WNBA counterpart would be the same thing. They're already nearly halfway there anyways with the league's team being owned by NBA or NFL owners.
Caitlyn Clark's game had more TV viewers than any NBA game this season on ESPN
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IsThatBrothaMouzone?
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Angel and Caitlyn = Magic N Bird?
WNBA could use an elite white girl that is NOT from the coasts like Taurasi, Sue Bird etc and can appeal to Middle America.
Pair her up with a photogenic, talented Black hooper and you get Magic v Bird 2.0
PortCityProphet
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Melo- player of the year, crazy big east tourney, led team to the ship. People learned him in March. America fell in love with him cause he was the biggest thing going for 3 months straight.
Wall-not that household IMO
KD-woulda been more household cause he was the 1st freshman to win player of the year but was out the tournament early didn't really get to make that large impact cause he was overshadowed by..>>>
Oden-dominated big ten at one of the biggest alumni bases in the country. Deep run into March. 3 months of name in the headlines.
Beasley-not that household
DRose-Deep run in March.
And the reason it's cbb regular season is "irrelevant" cause we all know players aint gon be there but for a year so ain't no realattachment there anymore. Nobody knows who these kids are until they make a name for themselves in March. But a lot of them only have 1 or 2 weeks of March for the country to get familiar with them.
For example
Herb Jones get more love than Brandon Miller and those Bama fans turned into Pelican fans cause Herb was there for 4 years and there's a true following there.
The longer a player stays the better chance they have of taking fans from these huge alumni bases with them.
More seasoned women's watchers can educate me on this but I think Angel may be more of a question mark in the WNBA than she is currently in the college game. She'll have to go against bigger, longer and stronger forwards and centers nightly.
Clark can take her game anywhere. So they could try to push that but it only works if both are instant impact stars.
Piff Perkins
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Nor was that particular group of white racists ever really NBA fans in the last decade. All the "woke" obsession has done is allow these people to verbally state what they wouldn't say a decade ago. They couldn't say "I don't watch basketball because it's a bunch of ******s and thugs running around" in 2013, but now can say "I don't watch basketball because it's woke."
They also tried the same shyt with the NFL, and today many right wing figures don't watch any sports. Of course the NFL's ratings continue to surge despite "wokeness" so right wingers prefer to just pretend football doesn't exist rather than admit most people don't give a shyt about their culture war gripes.
That's not true. Sports business structure is a distribution of revenue, not of profits. Most men's sports leagues distribute about half of revenue to players regardless of whether the teams are turning a profit or not. There are plenty of teams that lose money, they still have to play their players. In the early years of the NBA you had teams folding constantly due to bad profits. Even now, some teams don't turn a profit at all, and the owners are basically banking on having a lot of money and either owning the team just for their own amusement or banking on flipping it for a huge resale value later even if it doesn't make money year-to-year.
WNBA players, like NBA players, get their salary pool based on revenue rather than based on profits. But NBA players get 50% of NBA revenue, while WNBA players only get 20% of WNBA revenue.
(To be clear, I have no dog in this fight. I'm not particularly invested in whether WNBA players get paid more or not. I just think the arguments are more nuanced than they're sometimes made out to be.)
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jilla82
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or its proof its dumb to mix sports and politics
NBA does it to appeal to their core demo but it turns off potenital fans
PortCityProphet
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Exactly.
I'm on record saying that playing college ball now days doesn't make you a better pro or prepare you for the game, but being 19 doesn't help you either.
I saw where they just redid their cba, but what they shoulda put in there was players can declare for the draft after 1 year if they go the g league route and 2 years if they go the cbb route.
It benefits every single entity involved. CBB gets guys who wanna be there and it gives time for America to learn who they are and have a true following. The league can make something of the gleague (im guessing they have the play style of the nba
) and the top talent gets closer to nba experience. And the NBA gets more ready players and players who are better known since they are so focused on the individual and not the teams. But hey what do I know, I'm just a nikka who used to be in the nba target demo until the individuals I used to watch for all retired and had no real team fan affiliation so it goes totally ignored. Hence why the NBA will always have the youngest demo. They don't retain a large portion of their fans as lifelong but that's a whole nother topic
Godless Socialist CEO
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I’m tired of bytches like you telling black athletes they shouldn’t use their enormous platforms to support their people in a country in which we are routinely oppressed. fukk off c*nt
White men are never going to see you as their equal’s because you bootlick on online forums and most likely in real life as well
Also believing that the cops shouldn’t be gunning down unarmed black citizens isn’t fukking political it’s a human rights issue that the fukk UN human rights council has reprimanded the US over on numerous occasions
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Godless Socialist CEO
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I’m legitimately tired of folks using the word “political” which is the white mans framing to describe the murder and oppression of black men and women. Anyone trying to say that’s “political” on this board or elsewhere can fukk off and die.
cartierhoe
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I said the same thing literally a few months ago @Rhakim when there was talk (before they reached a new cba) about letting guys come in from high school again. We see it now with one and done if they go the college route, guys come in and don't know how to play, they know how to score and get theirs but that's it. I don't know who wants to watch a bunch of teams like the Rockets who year after year are filled with young guys who all play for themselves. I had the same conversation with my pops I honestly don't know why the NBA is hellbent on NOT utilizing the college game as a direct pipeline as a first option. Yeah in basketball guys have other options, especially now if you don't wanna go to college, overseas, now the G-league, but it'll help the league imo for guys to get known to the masses beforehand coming into the league. Like Scoot Henderson is known by basketball fans but if I polled people in the street who are casuals and barely know what a G-League is they won't know who I'm talking about.
And like @PortCityProphet said, these guys get built up in college and take their college fans with them to the pros. One and done hurts cause guys realistically only go to college as a means to get the league, no real fanbase is built up knowing you only gonna be there a few months.
Piff Perkins
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You're heavily over stating this demographic. We're not talking about a majority of people, or even a large portion of former basketball fans. We're talking about some white people in an information bubble who never liked basketball and barely even watch any sports.
The NBA should probably focus more on getting actual basketball fans to watch games. Instead of watching highlights on youtube or clips of SAS.
Long Live The Kane
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@jilla82 is one of this forum’s most depraved and shameless c00ns (at best…he may very well just be an outright WS agent)…. pay him no mind
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Trojan 24
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Killa Caitlin really got computers putin 