It would be pretty silly to only show Clarks games. She has to play someone. There have to be rivalries. Why are ALL of Indiana's games on some national TV platform, and no one elses are even close. And for the record I NEVER said it was all about Clark, but surely you can see how much ALL of this has changed in the last 2+ years? What happened 2+ years ago for the W? Why was the WNBA draft NEVER televised before 2 years ago?
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This is the conversation though. What kicked it off was someone saying Azzi Fudd whould thank Clark for her contract.
Fudd earned her contract.
Scoring 8 points doesn't mean much when you shoot 2-7 from the field and 4-8 from the free throw line. She's obviously an elite rebounder.
This is patently false.
Every WNBA draft since 2001 has been televised.
Okay. That's not what they said. Was it on some channel that nobody gets or what?
Im guess the point people are trying to make is that before the new contract rookies were making 70K per year. Would they have been able to negotiate the new TV deal without the huge uptick of attention on the W in the last two years. Why did many WNBA teams move to larger arenas when the Fever came to town. Who was responsible for that? Angel Reese, No. Not even The MVP of the league with the Aces drew that kind of attention.
Really. No wonder their ratings have gone to heck for some time. Must not have been destination TV until 2 years ago.
I understand what they're getting at. We don't need to do that for every single woman that gets a new contract because it diminishes what they did to earn it.
if Clark didn't cause this then why was attendance at big name teams not called Fever only a few thousand fans, while Fever was selling 15-20 thousand even on road games? Yes new contacts were earned by the players (most of them anyway). However, Clark opened up the money spicket for everyone.
Aces become first WNBA team to sell out every home game
The Aces became the first WNBA team to sell out every home game in a season when the final tickets were claimed for a Sept. 3 matchup against Angel Reese and the Sky.
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Nobody is saying that Caitlin has not had an impact.
Its when people frame it as all Caitlin it gets stupid.
Nobody is going to show up night after night, year after year, to watch Caitlin on the court by herself.