Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Women's basketball is absolutely thriving. The year before Caitlin Clark came in the WNBA had there highest revenue ever and doubled it from $100 mil to $200 mil. I have no desire to watch it, but that doesn't mean other people don't.
It absolutely isn't look at the attendance of games that she wasn't playing in
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Originally Posted by jd1020:
It's fine to have goals. At some point reality comes knocking, however. WNBA will never be as successful as NBA because the majority of people that watch sports want to watch the absolute best at it and that doesn't involve women.
I think Alex Morgan, Serena and Caitlin clark buck that. With women’s sport it isn’t about being the best in the world, it’s about being the best relative to your competition. Of course all these athletes would get smoked playing against men but they’ve had enormous viewership anyway.
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