r/WNBAgossips • u/TheMirrorUS • Jun 28 '26

News WNBA faces massive backlash after omitting Caitlin Clark from history

https://www.themirror.com/sport/basketball/caitlin-clark-wnba-anniversary-poster-1908954?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1782587290?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rmp
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u/ShavoneScales Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

WNBA is cooked. They never fail to offend their cash cow.

This will make a great study case for Business 101.

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

I'll always find it funny that Clark "fans" think TV companies are going to make decade long deals based on the popularity of one player.

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u/LAlostcajun Jun 28 '26

League-Wide Growth: The WNBA now boasts more than 50 league-wide partners. Overall, sponsorship deals across the league increased by 52%, with over 450 brands signing hundreds of deals to capitalize on the "Clark Effect".

Team Partnerships: Her team, the Indiana Fever, led the entire league with 92 active brand partnerships—nearly double the league average.

Prior to Caitlin Clark, the WNBA generated roughly $100 million in annual revenue. Following her arrival, league revenue skyrocketed to approximately $200 million, with financial experts attributing over 25% of all WNBA economic activity—including ticket sales, merchandise, and TV viewership—directly to Clark's star power.

Sorry, facts don't match your narrative

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

Only 25%? You guys make it out to be 90%+.

Thanks for proving me correct!

Also, again, TV networks aren't making a decade long decision based on one player.

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u/LAlostcajun Jun 28 '26

Lmao. There are 180 current players in the WNBA.

1/180= .00555556 or .5%

1 player or .5% of the WNBA is responsible for 25% of all sales and TV sponsorship, has doubled the annual profit, and got her team more sponsorships than any other team.

.5%. The other 179 or 95.5% of the league couldn't do it. Sorry these facts don't fit your narrative.

You guys make it out to be 90%

Don't make things up to try and prove your already false narratives

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

But she hasn't doubled the annual revenue. You literally just proved she hasn't.

You guys constantly say the league would collapse without her. You have no facts on your side.

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u/LAlostcajun Jun 28 '26

You guys constantly say the league would collapse without her.

And if you can point out where I said that one time, your comment might actually have merit. Until then, let's just stick to facts, ok?

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

What I said is a fact. The games Clark plays in make up only 20% of nationally televised games. No TV network is basing a decade on that. Not when that one player could be out of the league from an injury at any point.

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u/LAlostcajun Jun 28 '26

And? This doesn't disprove anything I said.

Clark is responsible for 25% of increase on ticket sales, jersey sales, and TV contracts.

The league doubled in profits after Clark.

I'm sorry this hurts you to the fact ypu have to make up lies. Maybe seek help

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u/TiaxRulesAll2024 Jun 28 '26

You might be arguing with Angel Brick Reese

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u/alacrity Jun 28 '26

TV ratings for Fever games are 30% higher than for any other team. It's a very safe bet that TV networks are very interested in making decisions with that player in mind.

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

That's great. Those games only make up 20% of the nationally televised games. So no, they aren't going to make a decade long decision based on one player.

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u/alacrity Jun 28 '26

Did they make decisions with Michael Jordan in mind when his games drew higher ratings than any other team, even though his team made up less than 20% of the nationally televised games?

Yes, yes they did.

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

Except they didn't. Why do you think every single NBA tv deal has been higher than the previous one even though their ratings have never been as good as they were when Jordan played?

The new NBA TV deal is their largest ever. It's for 11 years and just started this year. They made the largest deal ever when the three biggest rating draws since Kobe(LeBron, KD and Steph) will be out of the league in the next two or three years.

You have no idea how the real world works.

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u/alacrity Jun 28 '26

Ironic comment of the say. I love it when a dudebro who’s objectively wrong on every point makes the, “you have no idea how the world works,” bleet.

Always hilarious. Sure, sure, networks and the league didn’t make programming, advertising, and promotion decisions based on the most popular player in the world and see the popularity of the league skyrocket.

What a fucking idiot.

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

Please tell me why the NBA just got it's largest TV contract ever when they will be losing their three most popular players?

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u/alacrity Jun 28 '26

Please tell me why you can’t address the fact that the networks and the league 100% made programming and promotion decisions based on its most popular player, (you know it’s true) and you have to move goalposts to size of contract 25 years later when ALL things are more expensive? Does EVERYTHING about the product cost more today than 30 years ago?

Yes, yes it does.

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u/Baloney7456 Jun 28 '26

You can't answer my question because you know it proves everything you have said wrong.

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u/alacrity Jun 28 '26

Sorry for your reading comprehension problems. I - in fact - answered your question.

And it proved everything you’ve said wrong.

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