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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good for WOMEN’s BASKETBALL PERIOD

WE NEED MORE VIEWERSHIP FOR WNBA

AND HIGHER SALARIES FOR THE PLAYERS

FINALLY FINALLY [/quote]

Nobody wants to watch the WNBA. Bot even the die-hard feminists who begged for the league that has had to be subsidized by the NBA so that it can exist. Women’s NCAA is having a moment, but it will pass. It is fun to watch certain players but let’s not get delusional. [/quote]

So nobody will watch these same players in the WNBA? [/quote]

WNBA regular season viewership was up 8% last year, and viewership for the finals series was up 13% over the previous year through two games when this article was written.

https://apnews.com/article/wnba-aces-liberty-tv-ratings-a9f40c0f44aaeade85dc998baad17dbe

There is zero reason to think that as famous players move from the NCAA into the WNBA, they won’t attract viewers - that’s how lots of fans get into watching the NBA.

The bigger picture though is that networks for a long time treated the women’s game with palpable disdain.  The highly criticized coverage of the 2021 tournament (and the much publicized laughable difference in facilities) kind of brought that to a head and the women’s game has been covered differently by the media over the past couple of years.  ESPN’s Web site is a great example of the change (college basketball is now “NCAAM” and “NCAAW” in menus instead of “NCAA” for men and women’s basketball coverage somewhere with skeet shooting and luge.  The 3 point shootout during NBA all star weekend is another example.

The PP who seems so threatened by coverage of the women’s game is a good example of that dinosaur attitude that’s becoming way less common.  [/quote]

Disagree. There is plenty of reason to think that. NCAAW had very hight viewership in the 80's and 90's. Some of the viewership records that were broken were from the 80's when Louisiana Tech and USC were dominating the women's game.

Even with those increases, the WNBA used to have much much higher viewership when it first started. It has since waned, so that means something was wrong with the product and they couldn't hold interest. There is no reason to assume that interest from NCAAW will automatically translate and be sustainable. NCAAW right now has the structural benefit that the men don't have because the best players have to play 4 years, so people become familiar with the players and rivalries develop. Not so with the men. There is no reason to assume that this translates to the pros.

What gets annoying is the women who are constantly dunking (no pun) on the men's game yet simultaneously leeching, like the 3 pt contest and the whole league being subsidized by the men. [b]People get tired of simultaneously being shat upon and then also having those same people demand that you watch them play.[/b] A lot of the WNBA ladies have horrible, entitled (and some delusional) attitudes. [/quote]

This seems unhinged.  I can’t imaging what PP imagines that WNBA players - 100% of whom don’t know that he exists - are doing to offend him, but this bizarre attitude is all the more strange given that moderated sports and social media platforms routinely close comments on  posts about women’s basketball because they ALWAYS fill with posts by sexist trolls.  The notion that women - who have persisted in pursuing excellence in the face of constant harassment are somehow offending anonymous rando PP who they don’t know exists - is a pretty good illustration of the craziness that this topic attracts.

As the dad of a young male player who plays for a prominent program, I find this attitude really unfortunate and I’m glad to see leadership at the highest levels of the game aimed at changing these attitudes.  [/quote]

[b]It's clear that you don't follow WNBA players. They regularly exude negative, entitled attitudes and are frequently trying to undermine the men's game[/b] instead of just focusing on their own "excellence". That attitude, especially when your entire league is being subsidized by the men's league, is off-putting.

I actually watch more WNBA and WCBB than probably 99% of people, despite these attitudes.

Be honest, can you even name 10 WNBA players?[/quote]

Honestly, I really think this is a you problem.

I know several current and former college players on the women’s side (my son shared a trainer with them) and I’ve met several WNBA players (as well as some G league guys and international players).   I absolutely never encountered anything but humility and positivity from WNBA players either in person or in the media.  [/quote]

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