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WNBA might be a better product than the NBA.

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Violet tantric principal's office
  06/25/25
I disagree
crimson startling people who are hurt center
  06/28/25
it's not but there is no drama more compelling than the open...
Burgundy state karate
  06/26/25
It’s more exciting in the way college ball is. There a...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
Lazy flame
unholy personal credit line
  06/26/25
Not flame. Inspired by a game I had on last night.
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
this is all precisely the opposite of true, it looks exactly...
Stimulating Hall Athletic Conference
  06/26/25
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milky dingle berry
  06/26/25
you could say there's appeal to the style of play compared t...
Burgundy state karate
  06/27/25
The problem is 90% of players are blacks and fats. Theyd be ...
Bat-shit-crazy codepig
  06/27/25
start a purpose-made league a la the lingerie football leagu...
Burgundy state karate
  06/27/25
It means something precisely for the reason you stated. The ...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/27/25
I hope it devolves into an open race war
Stubborn Elastic Band Juggernaut
  06/26/25
the tension and jealousy is a good thing. the racial aspect ...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
mountain cat, lol, sure wnba will never be mainstream popul...
pea-brained apoplectic blood rage
  06/26/25
yeah, sure man..."Juju Watkins" is going to be a &...
chestnut parlour therapy
  06/26/25
Gonna bump this in 3 years. Date: June 26th, 2025 3:...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
“devolves”
territorial public bath volcanic crater
  06/26/25
Why are suddenly all the rising WBA players hot as shit now?...
indigo crusty water buffalo
  06/26/25
Bikini pics: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7NmQHINzQc/?igs...
indigo crusty water buffalo
  06/26/25
That's something i forgot to mention, but 100% that's a big ...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
lol, you are furthering the flame with this bullshit forcem...
pea-brained apoplectic blood rage
  06/26/25
they know all the $ is in influencer endorsement deals, not ...
hot chocolate partner locale
  06/26/25
this is just flat out wrong. wnba is horrible.
Frum Messiness Faggotry
  06/26/25
Flaem
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
Dupa all of your basketball takes are embarrassingly bad
milky dingle berry
  06/26/25
like which ones?
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
Can someone post the cliff notes or some links to this discr...
Bull headed contagious menage trump supporter
  06/26/25
There's jealousy for sure. Players who have been making $60k...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
ty
Bull headed contagious menage trump supporter
  06/26/25
Also they named that ape nigger gangsta bitch who shoots 50%...
Amethyst laughsome university idea he suggested
  06/26/25
Racism is ugly and I don’t know what you’re talk...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/26/25
You’re ugly
Tan Range
  06/27/25
something outrageous like 17% of all flagrant fouls in the l...
pink glittery striped hyena church building
  06/28/25
My barista told me that the atlanta wnba team season tickets...
pontificating cruel-hearted electric furnace
  06/26/25
Next year when i come in for blade show, let's try to hit a ...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/27/25
The college game clearly had better storylines - which was 9...
Mewling Yarmulke
  06/26/25
All of the team names are insidiously fucking retarded
Flirting duck-like alpha
  06/27/25
Like which ones? They are all pretty generic and inoffensive...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/27/25
"Dream" "Fever" "Wings" "...
Flirting duck-like alpha
  06/27/25
So like NBA team "suns" is OK but the WNBA team na...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/27/25
I just said some NBA teams suffer the same problem but it's...
Flirting duck-like alpha
  06/27/25
i think it's fitting that wnba teams have weird faggy names....
Burgundy state karate
  06/27/25
Tbf the NBA is easily the second faggiest league after the W...
Flirting duck-like alpha
  06/27/25
I'm really not being intentionally obtuse. The fact is every...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/27/25
The other guy is correct here, WNBA team names are complete ...
Amethyst laughsome university idea he suggested
  06/28/25
I largely agree with this. Caitlyn Clark has the most com...
obsidian famous landscape painting meetinghouse
  06/27/25
Thinking about this a little more, The WNBA has a couple...
obsidian famous landscape painting meetinghouse
  06/27/25
Agree with all your points. It's also cool that the WNBA...
Violet tantric principal's office
  06/27/25
hingis and kournakova are hot the williams sisters were phe...
pea-brained apoplectic blood rage
  06/28/25
The Sophie stuff with two straight up hockey thugs from CT w...
Lilac temple multi-billionaire
  06/28/25


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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:44 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49050560)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 8:34 AM
Author: crimson startling people who are hurt center

I disagree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49055801)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 12:58 AM
Author: Burgundy state karate

it's not but there is no drama more compelling than the open discrimination of cailtin clark in the nba right now

not to say that the nba is a good product

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49050629)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 7:19 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

It’s more exciting in the way college ball is. There are fewer games so each means more and the players play harder. There’s less isolation and more offensive sets so you get more passing and team play. The girls are athletic and very skilled so it doesn’t feel you’re watching children at recess anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49050853)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 1:18 PM
Author: unholy personal credit line

Lazy flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051524)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

Not flame. Inspired by a game I had on last night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051589)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 1:47 PM
Author: Stimulating Hall Athletic Conference

this is all precisely the opposite of true, it looks exactly like watching a girls basketball game in 3rd grade where they mostly pull ponytails and chuck layups directly into the bottom of the rim over and over all while never jumping more than 2 inches in the air

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051599)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: milky dingle berry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051770)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: Burgundy state karate

you could say there's appeal to the style of play compared to the shitshow of the nba but it's meaningless given the substandard athleticism. middle school boys also have more team play than nba offenses, doesn't mean anything.

also it's very aesthetically displeasing to see hot chicks pitted against a bunch of butch shaniquas. if the wnba fine-tuned its roster composition to look more like olympic beach volleyball and similarly updated the uniform design it would be top four pro sports league in the US by popularity. they are leaving billions on the table.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053268)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:42 AM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy codepig

The problem is 90% of players are blacks and fats. Theyd be sued into oblivion. Beach volleyball - i dunno how they did i it would make a good documentary if it were honest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053275)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:52 AM
Author: Burgundy state karate

start a purpose-made league a la the lingerie football league or whatever, but a little more subtle. capitalize it well. recruit the best women's college bb players. within year one it has better ratings than the wnba and it's already a more valuable league. then the virtuous cycle engages and it gets its pick of top talent but retains the license to reject bulldykes. obviously easier said than done but if a good sports entrepreneur with some cash to toss around put his head to it (maybe dana white or vince mcmahon) it'd be interesting to see what happened.

beach volleyball works out because it almost exclusively attracts white players and there's no strategic benefit to having body mass.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053277)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 8:07 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

It means something precisely for the reason you stated. The current NBA formula where every possession is either an iso dunk or launching a 3 is boring. The lower level of athleticism i think can be overcome and is less noticeable now that the training and conditioning is so much higher and when women are pitted against each other. Of course, the best WNBA players would look like retarded children in an NBA game.

Agree that the league should lean into the sex appeal a bit more since there are a decent amount of good looking players and volleyball is the right analogy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053289)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 7:36 AM
Author: Stubborn Elastic Band Juggernaut

I hope it devolves into an open race war

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49050859)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 8:42 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

the tension and jealousy is a good thing. the racial aspect is annoying to me.

in a few years the WNBA is really going to take off. We'll have a stable of established household-name young stars with CC, Angel Reese, Bueckers, Juju Watkins, Hannah Hidalgo together with some older GOAT level players like A'ja Wilson and Sabrina Ionescu.

Bump this post in 3 years. Not flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49050905)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: pea-brained apoplectic blood rage

mountain cat, lol, sure

wnba will never be mainstream popular until its participants are pretty

good fucking luck with that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051787)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 3:11 PM
Author: chestnut parlour therapy

yeah, sure man..."Juju Watkins" is going to be a "household name" LMAOOO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051803)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 3:33 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

Gonna bump this in 3 years.

Date: June 26th, 2025 3:11 PM

Author: Diamond Dallas Trump

yeah, sure man..."Juju Watkins" is going to be a "household name" LMAOOO



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051837)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: territorial public bath volcanic crater

“devolves”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051773)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 8:57 AM
Author: indigo crusty water buffalo

Why are suddenly all the rising WBA players hot as shit now?

https://www.threads.com/@thebasketballnation__/post/DLXGrEgySO-?xmt=AQF05HFPzqtXcybdYdUzwudPNnUPxlmjRsrzTKE8Vli-vA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49050913)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: indigo crusty water buffalo

Bikini pics:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7NmQHINzQc/?igsh=MWY0eG93Z2kzbjVsZQ==

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49050914)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:58 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

That's something i forgot to mention, but 100% that's a big part too. When you turn on any game there are more attractive women playing than ever before.

If you have high quality of play + hot women, i think that will boost the popularity. You also have the surging ticket prices for NBA making it impossible for regular people to ever go to a game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051286)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 3:03 PM
Author: pea-brained apoplectic blood rage

lol, you are furthering the flame with this bullshit

forcememe alert. michelle obama is hot. stacy abrahms is fierce. trannies should be able to participate!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051792)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 1:35 PM
Author: hot chocolate partner locale

they know all the $ is in influencer endorsement deals, not their stupid wnba 'salaries'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051573)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: Frum Messiness Faggotry

this is just flat out wrong. wnba is horrible.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051293)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 1:17 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

Flaem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051522)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: milky dingle berry

Dupa all of your basketball takes are embarrassingly bad

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051771)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 3:20 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

like which ones?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051821)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 3:23 PM
Author: Bull headed contagious menage trump supporter

Can someone post the cliff notes or some links to this discrimination of Caitlin Clark? I have to admit I haven't been following because she's so ugly, but this intrigues me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051825)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 3:39 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

There's jealousy for sure. Players who have been making $60k for years and playing overseas in the offseason to make ends meet who resent CC who has tons of endorsements and is rich. A lot believe that part of the CC phenomenon is the fact that she's white and if she were black, she would be treated very differently.

There's some truth to that. Caitlyn Clark was a household name in college. Juju Watkins and Hannah Hidalgo put up similar numbers and IMO are more sensational players to watch. How many posters know who they are? Paige Bueckers, another white girl, is also widely known.

On the court, CC has been subjected to a number a hard fouls that people rightly or wrongly attribute to this partially race fueled jealousy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051853)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 4:06 PM
Author: Bull headed contagious menage trump supporter

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051900)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 4:08 PM
Author: Amethyst laughsome university idea he suggested

Also they named that ape nigger gangsta bitch who shoots 50% on layups MVP or ROY or w/e instead of her last year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49051911)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 10:20 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

Racism is ugly and I don’t know what you’re talking about bc CC won ROY in 2024.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49052771)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:37 AM
Author: Tan Range

You’re ugly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053267)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 8:43 AM
Author: pink glittery striped hyena church building

something outrageous like 17% of all flagrant fouls in the league have been committed against clark

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49055811)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 10:25 PM
Author: pontificating cruel-hearted electric furnace

My barista told me that the atlanta wnba team season tickets are completely sold out. I'd go to a game

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49052782)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:07 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

Next year when i come in for blade show, let's try to hit a Dream game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053247)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 10:30 PM
Author: Mewling Yarmulke

The college game clearly had better storylines - which was 90% of the battle.

But then when you tune it into the game, they just can't shoot. Shots taht would go in for a man 95% of the time end up being airballs and shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49052793)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:14 AM
Author: Flirting duck-like alpha

All of the team names are insidiously fucking retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053252)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:21 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

Like which ones? They are all pretty generic and inoffensive IMO. Are the NBA names really better (e.g. Magic, Raptors, Wizards, Hornets, Pelicans)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053256)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:38 AM
Author: Flirting duck-like alpha

"Dream" "Fever" "Wings" "Sky"

Tons of them are overly abstract and retarded. There are a few NBA teams like this too ("Magic"), but it seems to be a more modern phenomenon. But yes in general the newer NBA teams also have retarded names, just not quite to the same extreme and they're balanced out by some of the classics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053270)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 8:00 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

So like NBA team "suns" is OK but the WNBA team name "sun" is overly abstract and retarded. The concept of the sky, aces and storm similarly too abstract for you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053283)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 8:03 AM
Author: Flirting duck-like alpha

I just said some NBA teams suffer the same problem but it's balanced out by the classics. You're being intentionally obtuse because you know this is a valid criticism and there's no defending it other than whataboutism

And at least "Suns" relates to Phoenix. What the fuck does "Dream" even mean? The correct nba wtf comparison here is something like "Thunder" or "Magic"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053285)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 8:08 AM
Author: Burgundy state karate

i think it's fitting that wnba teams have weird faggy names. they should sound like women's teams, not men's teams. the gay wnba naming conventions are a subtle subconscious heteronormativity that's able to persist because they're inoffensive and not entirely overt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053294)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 8:11 AM
Author: Flirting duck-like alpha

Tbf the NBA is easily the second faggiest league after the WNBA in terms of names (which I think is unironically a big impediment to its popularity -- eg nobody in NC gave a fuck about the "Bobcats", "Hornets" was just a flat out better name), so much of their naming problem is down to the fact that they drew inspiration from NBA and then doubled down on it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053299)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 8:14 AM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

I'm really not being intentionally obtuse. The fact is every team name sounds ridiculous when it's new (e.g. memphis grizzlies, anaheim mighty ducks).

The WNBA is a new league so there are no "classics". I think it's better they came up with new names like Valkyries, Mystics, Liberty rather than generic already used names like Bears, Hawks or Tigers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053304)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 8:34 AM
Author: Amethyst laughsome university idea he suggested

The other guy is correct here, WNBA team names are complete cringe shit. TBF same for the G-league (to a lesser extent)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49055798)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:32 AM
Author: obsidian famous landscape painting meetinghouse

I largely agree with this.

Caitlyn Clark has the most compelling narrative arc of anyone playing basketball currently.

Her game is legitimately enjoyable to watch, and there is actual narrative tension around how big a superstar she can become in the WNBA.

Part of this is that the ruthless optimization of the NBA game has in large part stripped it of its narrative appeal.

There was a stretch before Federer and Nadal came around where the women's game had Martina Hingis and Anna Kournakova, and the Williams sisters were just starting. Where women's tennis had more interest than men's tennis did.

This is sort of similar.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053266)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 7:42 AM
Author: obsidian famous landscape painting meetinghouse

Thinking about this a little more,

The WNBA has a couple of other things going for it.

First, they have the benefit of leveraging the free marketing from the college game, since player stay in school longer, you get to know them, then when they're ready to come into the pro game, they're more ready to be difference makers as soon as they show up.

Their games are easy to find on TV. Weekend afternoon TV slots. I guess I'm old, but the NBA starting games at 9PM, I'm half asleep by the second half, my kids aren't staying up to watch that. Weekend afternoon TV slots are much easier for casual fans (and young fans). Not that much competition in the summer either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49053274)



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Date: June 27th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: Violet tantric principal's office

Agree with all your points.

It's also cool that the WNBA season starts just 1 month after the NCAA season ends, so there's some momentum for the new players and in real time you get to see them transform from college kid to pro.

With the men, it's the better part of a year between the end of the college season and start of the pro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49054195)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 1:13 AM
Author: pea-brained apoplectic blood rage

hingis and kournakova are hot

the williams sisters were phenom talents

where is women's tennis now?

caitlyn clark is a one girl show. it will stay that way. ticket prices $40 for her games and $1.25 for other wnba games.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49055553)



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Date: June 28th, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: Lilac temple multi-billionaire

The Sophie stuff with two straight up hockey thugs from CT was interesting last week. Made a normal feel like they might be missing out of nhl level action in the wnba.

Will be a flash in the pan, but still

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743362&forum_id=2#49055814)