That league has been bleeding money for years. The NBA (mostly black players), has been funding it for years. They get plenty of support from Black men. Some were posted in the responses. Russel Wilson did a press Conference in a Sue Bird jersey.
Russell Wilson said he felt 'like Sue Bird in the clutch' after a brilliant performance, and the WNBA legend explained why that's important
A simple google search would tell you she is wrong.
In 2013 ESPN said that their WNBA audience was majority male, as it had been for years. 66% of the viewers were male and almost half were African-Americans. Viewership for the 19 games broadcast for the 2014 regular season was an average of 240,000.
Silver said there are two main issues facing the WNBA, one being attendance, and he mused about possibly aligning the league’s schedule with that of the NBA and college basketball. Last year, the season ran from mid-May to early September, a change from previous years in which the WNBA Finals were not held until mid-October, when pro and college football are in full swing and the Major League Baseball playoffs are also attracting attention.
“We have a lot of empty seats in our buildings,” Silver said. “The ratings have been decent on ESPN, [but] it’s been harder to get people to come to the games, maybe because the games are in the summer. One of the things we’re talking about is do we need to shift to the so-called more natural basketball season, sort of in the fall or winter. That may be part of the issue.”
“It’s interesting: Women’s basketball is largely supported — just in terms of the demographics — by older men, for whatever reason, who like fundamental basketball, and it’s something I’ve talked a lot to the players about,” he said. “We’re not connecting with almost the same demographic that our players are. I’m always saying our players are roughly, let’s say, 21 to 34, in that age range. I’m saying [to the players], ‘Why do you think it is that we’re not getting your peers to want to watch women’s basketball?’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-not-enough-young-women-pay-attention-to-it/
Women don't support each other period. Its just a lot of deflection,
The ticket sales, which makes up $50M, which is more than 83% of the total revenue of the WNBA. When comparing this to the NBA, the WNBA makes a much larger percentage of their revenue from ticket sales. Of the NBA's ~$8.3B revenue per year, only about $3B comes from ticket sales.
More money for the league means more money for the players, and vice versa. According to wsn.com the WNBA generates about 60 million dollars in revenue, while the NBA generates about 7.4 billion dollars.
Women are 51% of the US population.
Russell Wilson said he felt 'like Sue Bird in the clutch' after a brilliant performance, and the WNBA legend explained why that's important
A simple google search would tell you she is wrong.
In 2013 ESPN said that their WNBA audience was majority male, as it had been for years. 66% of the viewers were male and almost half were African-Americans. Viewership for the 19 games broadcast for the 2014 regular season was an average of 240,000.
Silver said there are two main issues facing the WNBA, one being attendance, and he mused about possibly aligning the league’s schedule with that of the NBA and college basketball. Last year, the season ran from mid-May to early September, a change from previous years in which the WNBA Finals were not held until mid-October, when pro and college football are in full swing and the Major League Baseball playoffs are also attracting attention.
“We have a lot of empty seats in our buildings,” Silver said. “The ratings have been decent on ESPN, [but] it’s been harder to get people to come to the games, maybe because the games are in the summer. One of the things we’re talking about is do we need to shift to the so-called more natural basketball season, sort of in the fall or winter. That may be part of the issue.”
“It’s interesting: Women’s basketball is largely supported — just in terms of the demographics — by older men, for whatever reason, who like fundamental basketball, and it’s something I’ve talked a lot to the players about,” he said. “We’re not connecting with almost the same demographic that our players are. I’m always saying our players are roughly, let’s say, 21 to 34, in that age range. I’m saying [to the players], ‘Why do you think it is that we’re not getting your peers to want to watch women’s basketball?’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-not-enough-young-women-pay-attention-to-it/
Women don't support each other period. Its just a lot of deflection,
The ticket sales, which makes up $50M, which is more than 83% of the total revenue of the WNBA. When comparing this to the NBA, the WNBA makes a much larger percentage of their revenue from ticket sales. Of the NBA's ~$8.3B revenue per year, only about $3B comes from ticket sales.
More money for the league means more money for the players, and vice versa. According to wsn.com the WNBA generates about 60 million dollars in revenue, while the NBA generates about 7.4 billion dollars.
Women are 51% of the US population.
