will be on team WNBA playing against team USA on or around July 20th. Imagine those TV ratings. Clark against the Olympic team. Made for TV
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This is the Olympic team concession? What a joke. She might as well rest. Her team will get obliterated again.
It will be in place of WNBA All Star game.
MUST COVER OUR ASSES
WITH NBC, NIKE, FANS, USA, WORLD
WITH NBC, NIKE, FANS, USA, WORLD
Sorry commish, just signed a multi million dollar contract with the Euro League.If I were her, this would be my response when asked to play against Team USA:
WNBA better get their voting website up to date with this latest BS.
vote.wnba.com
Search | WNBA All-Star 2024
Vote for your favorite players for the WNBA All-Star team.
This, This, This. x1000.
I'm just about done with my attempt to pay attention to professional women's basketball. It's become very clear why no one has paid attention to this sport, these athletes, or the really weird fans. Insufferable.
You get snubbed and then they ask you to play on the Washington Generals against the Olympic Team??!
Tell 'em to go play against the allstar practice boys.
Tell 'em to go play against the allstar practice boys.
Y’all take every little thing that isn’t pro Clark as anti-Clark. Good lord.
I tend to agree......but this isn't one of those times. I'd tell the league to go pound sand.
Do you guys even listen to yourselves? It's like you want Clark to be the whiny entitled athlete that people crush any other time.
"Hey Commish I know I'm an All Star starter but I'm still salty about not making the Olympic team a month ago so I don't want to play."
"Hey Commish I know I'm an All Star starter but I'm still salty about not making the Olympic team a month ago so I don't want to play."
It's a no-win scenario. If she plays, her team is the sacrificial lamb and she won't look good. If she doesn't, she'll look like a bad sport.
She's screwed either way.
She's screwed either way.
I would like to see Caitlin play with better players. Good opportunity for her passing ability to shine. She also wouldn't be blitzed because when she passed out her teammates can actually do something
This would be the easy route, but I think she would lose on the endorsement side. And If she left, some of the WNBA girls would say she couldn’t handle it. I think she toughs it out.
Not sure if this game would highlight her passing ability. It took over a year at Iowa for them to gel and work together as a team. I'm guessing that the Olympic team will have had more practices together as opposed to the all-star team.
I'm everyone's defense sports turned into a quasi athletics and drama industry.
Wouldn’t it be great if her team beat the Olympians? Haha. Yeah, that would be great…
C'mon man! Tis the age of grievance and outrage!! Get on board!!
No doubt.
Mille, you're thinking of the women who follow her like Taylor Swift...she's trending. Sport has little to do with it, it's all about celebrity for them.
As for the WNBA, sometimes flying under the radar is a good thing. The gals in the WNBA weren't making the big bucks but they could make a decent living playing basketball and nobody really cared. Now, they're being exposed to the free market and it's uncomfortable. People see what a shitty (subsidized) product it is.
I'd love the NBA to pull their funding and just let it die. It would look like minor league hockey from the 70s really fast. Small gyms, microwaved food and buses.
I take it you are broke and do not understand money.
The WNBA is worth something like a billion…half that is the teams…half that is the league.
So the NBA’s holding would be worth 200 million or so. Into this investment they put in 10 to 15 million a year. There are bench players in the NBA that make more than that a year.
But yea…they are going to follow your hopes and not invest into the league anymore… and you somehow think that the WNBA can not come up with extra money?
The expansion teams went for 50 million…that is going to make up some of the shortfall.
Willing to bet even the poorest with ownership stakes, someone like Tom Brady, would be willing to chip in a couple dollars.
Hell the Aces just spent 20 million on a practice facility in Henderson… but yea the WNBA cannot survive without some pocket change from the NBA.
You are brilliant at finances.
You got me. I live in a cardboard box and am posting from the public library.
I know there are layers of investors with various strategies...particularly when a business is in growth phase. There's money there and will continue to be. It'll be interesting to see how many NBA players get in, now that restrictions have loosened. To your point, the NBA's stipend is little more than a polite nod.
Bottom line (pun intended) it's a bad product which barely moves the needle compared to other major sports. A good investment for the right people, sure. But crappy basketball with a lot of marginal talent and embarrassingly bad officiating. That has never been more evident.
'Scuse me. Gotta get my bucket and head out to the intersection.
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Would be curious to see some analytics on the nba and wnba in terms of missed layups, missed “bunnies”, air balls, and passes through the hands.
The nba stats would give us something to compare a tje professional level.
I figured it was a women’s college problem. It isn’t.
The nba stats would give us something to compare a tje professional level.
I figured it was a women’s college problem. It isn’t.
Be careful with that - according to some you will be inciting a riot.
this is becoming the harlem globetrotters. are they still around? she should play for them or start her own league!! go around selling out stadiums, without all the garbage and stress and drama.
Shhh...Iowa fans are bitching, best to just let um roll. Clark is shooting like 35% from the field and 32% from 3, but she got snubbed from the Olympics. Lol
Some... Iowa fans. Not everyone has gone full Taylor Swift on Clark.
I voted for CC, the Meg, and Kate for the All-Star team. I don't know about the Meg and Kate, but I'll bet CC gets a ton of votes. The other criteria they use, I have no idea.
or the media has invented a bunch of "swifty-like" iowa fans. not really sure where they are or if they exist. I want to meet them and do a game watch with them. I bet they party down.
CC will tell you she hasn't played well enough to make the Olympic team. That being said, I think she would be better off taking the break in the schedule to get some much needed rest and forego playing in an exhibition game against the Olympic team.
Just looked at the schedule. Fever play the Wings on July 17 in Dallas. Their next scheduled game is on August 16 against the Mercury at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Huh....
"The difference is quite stark, but so are many price differences between the two leagues. Here are some numbers side by side, according to the latest data from the World Sports Network: TV contract revenue: $60 million (WNBA); $2.7 billion (NBA) Annual revenue: $200 million (WNBA); $10 billion (NBA)"
It's also worth noting that while the WNBA typically loses about $10 million annually, they're expected to lose about $50 million this year.
Not that that means anything as far as the league going under.
