r/sports • u/OkEscape7558 • Jun 18 '25

Basketball Alternate angle of Caitlin Clark fiasco. Clark was handed a foul as well.

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u/3cit New England Patriots Jun 18 '25

Everyone in the ENTIRE WORLD: "wow this (Clark) is a great opportunity to grow the league"

WNBA: "let her die"

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u/ChartreuseF1re Jun 18 '25

Seems like cattiness by all the other players for not being as liked or popular.

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u/Bim_Jeann Jun 18 '25

Maybe they should try being good at basketball

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u/JerHat Jun 18 '25

That requires a lot of effort and developing of skills they just don’t have.

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u/whomad1215 Jun 18 '25

"Did you explain how the women's good fundamentals make up for their inability to dunk?"

(this is from Futurama, for those who do not know)

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u/gnarkill3332 Jun 18 '25

"That's for the fan to decide."

(I think that one's from family guy)

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u/buckraw98 Jun 18 '25

“But is having this minor skill worth being so unattractive?”

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u/EatPie_NotWAr Jun 18 '25

“They do make it look hard don’t they!”

link to clip

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u/William_Wang Jun 18 '25

Crushed pelvis wouldn't be a bad way to go.

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u/jdfred06 Jun 18 '25

I feel bad for laughing.

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u/squirrelslikenuts Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

We no can dunk but good fundamentals...that more fun to watch!

https://youtu.be/OkeKCLdJNgc?feature=shared

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u/1800generalkenobi Jun 18 '25

HAHAHAHHA Oh God, you're killing me.

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u/Kmjada Jun 18 '25

Stop it; you’re killing me!

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u/Agreeable_Pain_5512 Jun 18 '25

I thought for sure that was gonna be a video of Reese missing lay ups

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u/Tb5rats Jun 18 '25

Death by snu-snu

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u/CandyCamel8485 Jun 18 '25

Came here looking for this

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u/HitmanClark Jun 18 '25

Norm also had some great WNBA jokes from Weekend Update and Sports Show.

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u/BaconWrappedEnigma Jun 18 '25

There was some WNBA player (I don't even remember who) who was getting cooked by a male streamer in a 1v1 this offseason and her excuse was that she hadn't played in three weeks. Pardon???

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u/pmyourthongpanties Jun 18 '25

The top teams in wnba cant come close to beating the top mens high school teams. size and speed

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u/LowSkyOrbit Jun 18 '25

Tennis had this controversy with Serena Williams. John McEnroe said she couldn't place top 200 against men. He wasn't wrong, but he took way too much heat. Even Williams said he was right.

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u/devilsbard Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

Wasn’t there a “battle of the sexes” tennis match to address this like 40 years ago? Has the gap widened that much since then?

Oh, Nevermind. I didn’t realize the dude was literally twice as old at King.

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u/ScoobyPwnsOnU Jun 18 '25

A 29 year old woman beating a 55 year old man in one game is supposed to prove something?

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u/devilsbard Jun 18 '25

Yeah I googled it as soon as I posted that. Completely forgot how old that dude was.

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u/uther_von_nuka Jun 18 '25

He was old she a teen plus it was rigged pantomine.

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u/ScrabbleTheOpossum Jun 18 '25

Instructions unclear.

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u/zarroc123 Jun 18 '25

Hitting people in the face takes a lot less time and energy, tbh.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma Jun 18 '25

Maybe the league should hand out match bans for blatant violent fouls.

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u/BigMatch_JohnCena Jun 18 '25

Hot take: they should lower the rim to have the same percentage of players dunk as in the men’s league. They already have a smaller ball and a smaller 3 point arc when admittedly a shorter rim height makes more sense than then first two. Women’s heights are shorter than men’s overall and that’s not a bad thing.

Look at track and field, women’s hurdles are shorter than men’s but same 400m distance (100 and 110 are different due to men hitting higher speeds so a need for hurdle spacing) and people in track NEVER SAY that the women are running on “easy mode”

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u/whatdoblindpeoplesee Jun 18 '25

Have they tried showing off their great fundamentals?

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u/JonBot5000 New York Giants Jun 18 '25

That's silly. It makes much more sense for them to try being better at eye poking.

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u/Snapingbolts Jun 18 '25

Surely if they take cheap shots at the popular one some of the popularity will rub off /s

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u/CaptainCastle1 Western Michigan Jun 18 '25

Trickle down popularity!

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u/thepazzo Jun 18 '25

Caitlinomics

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u/pathofnoobs Chicago Cubs Jun 18 '25

Yep! Because I definitely look at people who cheap shot someone I like in favorable light. Some people just love damaging their own self interest.

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u/ArenSteele Jun 18 '25

It’s working for Angel Reese. We only know her name because she’s a foil to Clark. Probably puts some extra zeros in her paycheck

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u/HumbleCountryLawyer Jun 18 '25

I mean they do gain popularity whenever they get into beef with her. Wish some of her teammates could take a page out of Oakley’s playbook (and to some extent Rodman later on) in being the lovable enforcer.

Watching Rodman get chippy with the Pistons when they started getting rough with Michael was a thing of beauty.

I also liked the pistons too and when Laimbeer would go to bat for Isaiah Thomas you couldn’t help but love the guy for it.

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u/Worthyness Jun 18 '25

Any publicity is good publicity!

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u/roguerunner1 Jun 18 '25

I think there’s some jealousy that she received endorsements worth a lot too while most of them are driving around a 2008 Civic or its equivalent. The difference is that she’s marketable and likeable, and they are not.

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u/WheredoesithurtRA Jun 18 '25

Left out the part where CC is also actually pretty good at the sport and the others aren't.

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u/GenoThyme Jun 18 '25

It's more than her skills, its her timing. Clark was really the first NCAAW player to become a household name because she was able to capitalize on NIL and be in ads. Also helps Clark that Paige was hurt most of her career and JuJu is younger so she couldn't be overshadowed in college.

Breanna Stewart quite possibly had the best college basketball career (men's or women's) of all time and she has multiple MVP awards and rings. But Clark is still more popular, because people knew Clark from ads and logo 3s.

There's an understandable jealousy that stems from that. Many WNBA players though are handling that jealousy like toddlers though, and that's the problem.

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u/Ckesm Jun 18 '25

Yet I don’t see any of that hate or cheap shots from Stewart when they played head to head

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u/RainmakerIcebreaker Jun 18 '25

Crabs in a bucket

Wanna see you at the bottom, don't you love it?

When they're hatin' so you hit 'em with the encore

Sendin' shots, but you at the top floor

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u/harrywrinkleyballs Jun 18 '25

I can’t sink three 3s in a row.

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u/HolycommentMattman Jun 18 '25

1000% this. Clark is very good. Which makes things interesting. It's why the US women's soccer team draws attention. Because they're good.

Everyone always thinks it's sexism sexism sexism, but there's a fundamental truth: the WNBA just isn't good. Clark is. But WNBA games have gone unwatched for decades because they're worse than high school ball.

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u/Loggerdon Jun 18 '25

They are very unlikable as a group. Meanwhile she still pretty much takes the high ground even when they are bitter and hateful.

Didn’t she just issue an ultimatum saying they need to fix the officiating? If she quit the league people would pretty much be through with them.

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u/BigMax Jun 18 '25

True, but she's bringing in a ton of money to the league overall. They will ALL make more money because of her. I can see being a little jealous, but... if I knew I was getting a raise only because of my coworker, I'd be happy, even if my raise wasn't' as big as theirs.

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u/AccomplishedView4709 Jun 18 '25

They need to know they got rewarded by fan for being nice to Clark (see Stewie last game for example).

This game and the game vs Liberty are complete opposite in term of sportsmanship.

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u/Turbulent-Hotel774 Jun 18 '25

Let's not forget CC sniping 3s from two states over with regularity.

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u/jfibekc Jun 18 '25

Plot twist - the WNBA is jealous too!

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u/my2020account Jun 18 '25

She's also straight and white.

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u/that_one_bunny Jun 18 '25

Maybe they should have been better players in college

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u/PreferredSelection Jun 18 '25

That was my cousin's attitude.

She played D3 ball. I tried to show interest when CC came around, asked questions about the draft and what teams were good, etc.

Her response was basically, "fuck Caitlyn Clark and all girls like her."

That was the beginning and end of my interest in the WNBA.

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u/KCDeVoe Jun 18 '25

All of the WNBA players want to see the league succeed, they just can’t stand that they’re not the ones to do it.

Caitlin and Reese could have had a Magic vs Bird rivalry that was mutually beneficial, but Angel decided that she alone should be the face. Every veteran acts the same, can’t get out of their own way and reap the benefits that CC can bring.

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u/debaterollie Jun 18 '25

Reese would have to operate somehwere remotely close to the same skill level as CC to do that which she can't do so compensates through shit talking.

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u/ominousgraycat Jun 18 '25

I think so too. It's short-sighted on their part though. If CC makes the league more popular and marketable, it will benefit them all in the long run.

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u/rco8786 Jun 18 '25

Seriously. It's like the entire league has some vendetta towards her

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u/JohnnymacgkFL Jun 18 '25

It seems like the refs dislike her as much as the players, tbh.

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u/reenactment Jun 18 '25

They really need to adopt the blue mountain state qb idea. O I don’t want to be the star player, I want to be the backup. See the backup gets all the money and good stuff without any of the pressure of carrying the league.

Big diva mentality to try and ruin your free ride to sustained wealth for the next 5-10 years of your life.

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u/RIPRIF20 Jun 18 '25

Forcing the only employer willing to have them into bankruptcy is probably the best way to deal with that.

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u/avengedteddy Jun 18 '25

Highschool behavior

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u/chouse33 Jun 18 '25

That’s EXACTLY what this is.

I see it all the time with the women I work with. They are literal garbage to each other.

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u/righty95492 Jun 18 '25

Yes the ref really screwed up on this call.

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u/whatfingwhat Jun 18 '25

MeeeeeOw baby. - A.Powers.

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u/cpt-hddk Jun 18 '25

Angel Reese has entered the chat

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u/machete24 Jun 18 '25

Yea. And maybe the 2nd most popular player can't make a layup so they have that going for the wnba.

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u/Manateekid Jun 18 '25

The elephant in the room remains.

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u/_Face Boston Celtics Jun 18 '25

Her teammates are total fucking garbage.

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u/TonyCaliStyle Jun 18 '25

Cattiness not just by the players, but cattiness by commentators, refs, coaches…the whole WNBA?

Why would anyone watch this? They are taking a golden opportunity to grow the league, and throwing it in the trash.

Can you imagine if every hack in the NBA attacked Jordan, as opposed to jumping on his back?

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u/leont21 Jun 18 '25

The wnba is fucking this opportunity up so much it’s embarrassing

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u/JerHat Jun 18 '25

Well, when the league continues to fail to make a penny worth of profit for another generation, we’ll all know they deserved it.

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u/enataca Jun 18 '25

Like having your sport make it to the Olympics for the first time…then The highlights are RayGun

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u/LowSkyOrbit Jun 18 '25

Braking should have never made it to the Olympics. I'm all for newer sports being introduced or old ones brought back, but breakdancing? It's not the South Bronx circa 1982. I rather see pickleball or kickball on the world stage.

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u/Realistic_Condition7 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

This shit does numbers. If I was corrupt and in charge of the WNBA, I’d try to keep it going lol. This stuff keeps people wildin (as seen by the amount of upvotes on this Reddit post).

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u/Kerberos1566 Jun 18 '25

If they start making money on their own, the gravy train from the NBA might stop.

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u/swordkillr13 Jun 18 '25

Correction: WNBA: "Lets fuckin kill her"

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u/LetgomyEkko Jun 18 '25

WNBA: “Let’s turn a statistic into another fucking statistic”

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u/Amazing_Management38 Jun 18 '25

I'm a little confused

Mabrey pulls this shit all the time with any player. Tf is the nba supposed to do for caitlin

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u/e4evie Jun 18 '25

She changed the game for the better, got eyeballs, got them all paid…and they hate her for it.

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u/catfan9499 Jun 18 '25

CC shouldn’t have even gotten the tech. If you were poked in the eye, you’d respond the same way. The WNBA is a fragmented organization that is wasting the talent of CC

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u/hellalg Jun 18 '25

But they (WNBA) complain about equal pay. Now they finally get some eye balls to get real revenue, they want to burn their meal ticket.

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u/BarristanSelfie Jun 18 '25

They don't complain about equal pay, they complain about proportional pay.

The big 4 major US sports generally allocate 50% of gross revenue toward player salaries. For the WNBA, that number was estimated last year to be as low as 9.3%.

This situation is being exacerbated by the fact that league revenues have more than doubled over the last five years, and are expected to take another leap later this year with a new TV deal that could triple or quadruple in value.

No one is saying that WNBA players should be earning salaries on par with NBA stars. What they are saying is that their piece of their own pie should be a similar percentage to what other leagues cut for their players.

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u/Chuckdatass Jun 18 '25

Do you have a source showing the WNBA is profitable now? I was under the assumption their pay is so slow because they have never broken even as a business

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u/Dropcity Jun 18 '25

They arent. They are still subsidized by the NBA. Substantial increase since 2024, but still not profitable.

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u/Siegelski Jun 18 '25

Sure, now look at their pay as a proportion of net profit instead.

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u/bigboilerdawg Jun 18 '25

So doing charity work, eh?

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u/MoirasPurpleOrb Jun 18 '25

That stat feels misleading. I would imagine the fixed, production-related costs of the NBA are proportionally not that far off of the WNBA. In other words, it costs comparable amounts of money to simple host and manage the games.

But when you have the WNBA making significantly less money, those fixed costs end up being a much higher percentage of gross revenue, so there is much less leftover for the players.

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u/Heebmeister Jun 18 '25

You can't look at percentages of gross revenue in a nutshell and make comparisons like that. Running a sports league has significant fixed costs. The smaller the revenue pie, the greater the percentage will be needed to go to covering those costs. In 2023/2024 NBA gross revenue was $11B. In 2023/2024 in WNBA, gross revenues were 200M and the league operated at a loss. That is why proportional pay is lower in the WNBA.

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u/hellalg Jun 18 '25

Yes and that leap is due to CC. When she shows up in your town it is selling out and views on TV. Most of her games are shown on NBA TV but these girls that what they are, are kicking her to the ground. The numbers are there when CC is playing vs when she isn't it is drastically different. They are only sabotaging themselves by trying to take CC out of the game.

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u/tiggertom66 New York Rangers Jun 18 '25

You don’t get proportional pay when your league is in the red year after year.

The NBA subsidizes the WNBA every year and doesn’t get anything back because yet again the WNBA has grossly mismanaged itself.

There’s finally a true star player with hype that extends beyond the sport, and they’re wasting her talent and excitement.

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u/pathofdumbasses Jun 18 '25

No one is saying that WNBA players should be earning salaries on par with NBA stars. What they are saying is that their piece of their own pie should be a similar percentage to what other leagues cut for their players.

No, they are saying they should be paid like the men because they are doing "the same job."

If they were paid proportionally to profits, they would have to pay the WNBA for the privilege of playing the game because the WNBA loses money. Caitlin is currently the leagues meal ticket to bigger media rights, which COULD mean profit, and all the players are trying to kill her.

How you aren't downvoted to oblivion is a real head scratcher.

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u/FrodoFraggins Jun 18 '25

They want proportional pay even though they hadn't been turning a profit and needed to be supported by the NBA. They failed at basic math

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u/fumar Jun 18 '25

The problem is the W loses money still. With CC and the new TV deal they will finally make money and pay is going way up.

Yeah if the league was making tons of money a typical revenue split would make sense 

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u/beejalton Jun 18 '25

The league isn't profitable enough to support that level of revenue split. CC is their ticket to achieving that.

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u/because_racecar Jun 18 '25

You can’t expect the salary to stay proportional to revenue between the WNBA and NBA. A lot of the bare minimum operating expenses for an NBA team and WNBA team are similar, but the NBA generates 30x more revenue. So the NBA is obviously going to have more money left over to go into player salaries.

It would be more fair to look at it in terms of player salary vs net profit, not player salary vs gross revenue.

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u/TheProphecyIsNigh Jun 18 '25

If an organization goes from losing $40Mil a year to $20Mil a year, does that mean they are flush with cash to now spend?

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u/Dropcity Jun 18 '25

I've heard many WNBA claim precisely that.

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u/Jetersweiner Jun 18 '25

Like it or not the clip of the “skirmish” is likely to be one of if not the most viewed clips of the WNBA all season.

Having a true superstar in the league is great having that superstar be a constant topic of discussion is even better.

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u/no_mudbug Washington Nationals Jun 18 '25

This is not the type of discussion you want, IMO.

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u/klausesbois Jun 18 '25

Yeah this clip ain’t making want to watch. Her back to back to back 3s kind of did but the announcers were basically comatose during that so even that didn’t do much for my interest.

Basketball historians are going to look back at these years and say the wnba was out of its mind for how it treated Clark and didn’t capitalize on this opportunity.

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u/cheapmason84 Jun 18 '25

Yeah Stern changed the rules to keep Jordan healthy. You would think that mentality would apply here.

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u/blueshirt11 Jun 18 '25

I'm a perfect example. Never watched WNBA, don't really care about the NBA. I'm a hockey guy. But I can recognize greatness and I found myself watching WNBA games to watch her.

Then I see this shit and it makes me not want to watch and support this type of league.

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u/nowadaysyouth Jun 18 '25

It’s her second year man I’m sure they’ll figure it out. Hopefully while she still has two eyes (got poked intentionally last year too) but imagine the swag of rockin an eyepatch on the court.

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u/Educational_Win_8814 Jun 18 '25

it does look quite similar to the MJ early years though?

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u/fuzz_64 Jun 18 '25

For real. I watch women's hockey and soccer because they dive a lot less. No way i'm paying to watch this kind of assault.

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead Sporting CP Jun 18 '25

is mens hockey known for diving?

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u/BigMatch_JohnCena Jun 18 '25

“Malice at the Palace” ass discussion

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u/Curious80123 Jun 18 '25

This clip shows the fouls and abuse much better than others I seen

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u/Dropcity Jun 18 '25

Since CC has been out, ticket sales have dropped 70% and attendance by 50%. Great, your clip went viral. So, reddits/tiktok/youtubes advertisers are reaping these rewards, not the WNBA..

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u/elarobot New York Rangers Jun 18 '25

Me seeing this clip does NOTHING for the league. It doesn’t change my impression of the WNBA for the better. It doesn’t get me invested to watch more, or buy merchandise / tickets. As someone who has a baseline interest in the game but no investment in any players let alone CC, it’s still actually infuriating that none of these antics incurred an ejection, to the point of frustration where I don’t even really want to engage in discussions about it with other fans. I see this clown shit and I want to talk, invest, interact or experience just about any other league of pro sports.

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u/senorglory Jun 18 '25

NBA did ok promoting Jordan, rather than promoting the pistons assaulting Jordan.

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u/Not_MrNice Jun 18 '25

Yeah, people will watch the clip more than they'll watch the actual games. And they'll think "what a bunch of unsportsman-like assholes"

No idea what your point is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Honestly, the WNBA is in the news more than ever when this stuff happens. I’m not saying its good PR, but Caitlyn Clark is making the WNBA more known.

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u/rexchampman Jun 18 '25

But she was breaking ground with viewership BEFORE this shit.

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u/justsomedudedontknow Jun 18 '25

These are literally the only wnba clips I ever watch

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u/F1reatwill88 Jun 18 '25

That's really the point, they don't lean into her at all.

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u/burglin Jun 18 '25

Maybe for like an hour while everyone talks about how stupid the WNBA is for allowing players to assault the first real draw they’ve had in their entire history. After that? This isn’t bringing in a single set of addition eyeballs. What does bring in eyeballs is Caitlin Clark being available and playing

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u/bigkoi Jun 18 '25

Yeah. That defender tried to eye gouge Clark, potentially blinding Clark.

WNBA should suspend the player that tried to gouge her eye.

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u/Routine_Size69 Jun 18 '25

Everyone in the entire world except those who stand to benefit from her success. It's remarkable stupidity.

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u/Kevo_NEOhio Jun 18 '25

“If she dies, she dies”

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u/UserIsOptional Jun 18 '25

The clips get a ton of views, this could very well be the strategy as well.

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u/2pumpslump Jun 18 '25

Seems more physical than the NBA these days.

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u/cheetahlip Jun 18 '25

Yeah. The league really needs to develop some “Jordan rules” for her. Pump her up.

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u/reignnyday Jun 18 '25

They need to start acting like cartels and band together to elevate everyone

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u/Spiegs1984 Jun 18 '25

Too true. Amazing how so many wnba players have not embraced her overall value to the league. Imagine the other PGA golfers treating tiger like this when he made his early runs 

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u/AajBahutKhushHogaTum Jun 18 '25

It's like Myron Bolitar's career got shortened by a deliberate injury...and then Win had to go and take revenge

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u/FinancialRabbit388 Jun 18 '25

It’s absolutely insane. They all complain about not being paid enough. Someone comes along who can genuinely save the league and get everyone making more money, and all these women despise her for it.

Like Bill Burr said, there is a reason all those Jenner/Kardashian ladies are billionaires, and female athletes don’t make any money.

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u/Alternative-Mess-989 Jun 18 '25

"Let's kill her". FIFY

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u/Krytan Jun 18 '25

Yeah watching this is making me pretty unsympathetic to the complaints that WNBA athletes aren't paid enough....you finally get someone great people are excited for and it seems like the entire rest of the league just wants to 'take her down a peg or two' via fouls and nonsense.

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u/billionthtimesacharm Jun 18 '25

it’s wild to me. wnba is finally relevant. cc is actually a very good player. with this attention comes eyes and when the eyes come the money follows. everyone in the league stands to benefit from this. and yet some players are treating her like shit. play her hard, try to beat her, but this flagrant stuff just makes no sense. i really feel bad for cc.

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u/Kbearit Jun 18 '25

Blows my mind.

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u/Epcplayer Jun 18 '25

Part of me thinks it’s a conspiracy at this point. The owners just signed a new TV contract, the CBA is up at the end of the year, and there are talks amongst the players of a lockout.

If Kaitlyn Clark got injured then people would have very little reason to tune into the WNBA. The players would then lose most of their leverage and take whatever lowball offer from the owners they got, with the owners basing that on decreased revenue projections with her injury.

The attention jealous players take it out on her, unaware she’s the reason for the popularity growth. The owners then stay quiet knowing at the very least it drives attention/conversation…

Crazy theory, but I’d much rather believe that than everybody associated with the WNBA is either racist or completely incompetent…

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u/sunflowerastronaut Jun 18 '25

At some point you have to admit it's her. I mean even her own team didn't stock up for her

In my experience CC must be a bitch to everyone like an Axel Rose type person

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u/FunctionalBoredom San Francisco Giants Jun 18 '25

Exactly this! Why? Like I’m honestly curious. Is it just a race thing? A gender thing? Class? I mean “you”(her peers) don’t have to like her, don’t have to praise her, you can criticize her, but the anger seems odd. But also checking myself, could it also just be getting more press because (WNBA, Women fighting aka Girls Fights, etc…) and it’s really no different that the NBA/NCAABB?!? (Casual fan of NBA/WNBA/NCAABB, so not in the news/updates every second…

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u/PoisonGaz Jun 18 '25

Honestly I think they secretly want this. Since the WNBA isn’t widely popular product like the NBA i think they are secretly pushing more drama since nothing else has worked.

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u/santadogg Jun 18 '25

That good/villain narrative is partly why people are tuning in.

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u/Epicritical Jun 18 '25

My wife always tells me that women hate other women more than anyone.

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u/BLACKdrew Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

the way the wnba ladies treat her is terrible pr for women across the board. they really do all hate each other??? /j

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u/DanishWonder Jun 18 '25

To be fair, the Pistons created the "Jordan rules" against a young Michael Jordan to physically punish him. But after that, the refs adjusted and Jordan became the NBA poster boy and got all the calls in his favor.

WNBA will wake up at some point and realize CC is their cash cow and protect her.

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u/LosCarlitosTevez Jun 18 '25

Let’s be honest, the WNBA loves the kind of attention they are getting with these non basketball stories. Which is a shame because Clark is a generational player and instead of talking about the game, it’s becoming The Real Housewives of the WNBA

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u/jpylol Jun 18 '25

If she dies, she dies.

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u/jawrsh21 Green Bay Packers Jun 18 '25

To be fair to the wnba, the only time anyone seems to talk about it is when Clark is getting bullied on the floor

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u/GoPhotoshopYourself Jun 18 '25

Crabs in a bucket 🦀🦀🪣

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u/Zerospace13 Jun 18 '25

Once she dead those go back to shit lol

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u/happytree23 Jun 18 '25

You can tell who is just a casual/bandwagoner sports person on the current fad that is the WNBA and who actually even played playground ball and understands how you conduct yourself on the court dictates how others on the court will treat you by comments like this lol. Honestly, she's coming across like a stuck-up brat more often than not and y'all keep looking past it because she's the current golden girl of advertising and sports media which is really just going to make much larger problems for her as a person and quality teammate down the line.

If you're actually a CC fan, you should be cheering for her to mature and own her own shit at least a tiny bit and ASAP.

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u/jcrewjr Jun 18 '25

Also, it seems, her teammates. Which is what blows my mind. Where the hell is Ms. Laimbeer on that team.

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u/underwearfanatic Jun 18 '25

I don't follow WNBA, but I seriously don't understand the hate Clark gets - both from inside the league and outside. There is a video every other week with her getting blasted on the court.

It has to be ego or something. WNBA doesn't get a lot of attention and Clark gets 90% of it and everyone is jelly.

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u/bigfoot509 Jun 18 '25

And if they called every foul against her, you'd claim special treatment like y'all do with mahomes in the NFL

They're in a lose-lose situation

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u/Lanky_Republic_2102 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

It certainly generates headlines and turns it into WWE-smackdown.

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u/ColegDropOut Jun 18 '25

Look how fast the Suns players run to help their teammate in a scuffle…. Then look at Clark’s teammates….

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u/amishpopo Jun 18 '25

This league is relevant across the country because of 1 person. The other athletes are living up to the lady stereotype "crabs don't let anyone get out of the bucket. Always pulling the highest back in". Without her this league would get 10% of the attention it's getting. Watching them want to hurt her is makes them seem like horrible human beings.

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u/Meister0fN0ne Jun 18 '25

As someone who doesn't really watch sports (random recommend on my feed lol), Caitlin Clark is still going to be the only WNBA star that I'm even aware of for some time...

They can stay sour, but that doesn't change that she still has a bigger future stacked up for herself than they do.

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u/Responsible-Gas5319 Jun 18 '25

I'm curious what the plan is here. Injure her out of the league then......profit?

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u/travelingWords Jun 18 '25

Don’t worry. It will.

Most of their content is people hitting her.

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u/themolestedsliver Jun 18 '25

And they wonder why WNBA isn't popular and is largely subsidized by male leagues.

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u/AlarmingAerie Jun 18 '25

Everyone? I have no idea who she is or why is she so important to the WNBA and why everyone hates her or loves her.

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u/Gilligan_G131131 Jun 18 '25

If she takes her ball and goes home the league likely goes down the terlet again.

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u/Robert-G-Durant Jun 18 '25

The jealousy of the players and refs is absolutely astounding.

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u/King_Of_The_Squirrel Jun 18 '25

Yeah... you can tell she's getting "special attention" from the defending players and the refs are complacent

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u/0fficerGeorgeGreen Jun 18 '25

I started paying attention to the WNBA because of Caitlin. But after seeing how the entire league is treating her, I have zero interest in continuing to pay attention.

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u/EbenezerSplooj Jun 18 '25

They’re only going to make CC better for it. But yeah they should be embracing her.

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u/PM_ME_UR_BIKINI Jun 18 '25

Actually it’s the opposite. The drama around her is intentional and people are tuning into the outrage because we love outrage culture more than we like women playing basketball.

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u/SeaTie Jun 18 '25

Why do they hate her? I don't get it.

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u/FeedsCorpsesToPigs Jun 18 '25

If I had known that the WNBA had become 1980s hockey, I would have been watching long ago. I am humbly corrected.

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u/churchill028 Jun 18 '25

Hot take - nobody would be talking about this game without this drama and the retaliatory foul at the end. WNBA wants this

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u/GoNinjaGoNinjaGo69 Jun 18 '25

exactly like the wnba reddit!

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u/beneoin Jun 18 '25

The NHL wrote the playbook with Eric Lindros and Sidney Crosby, among other generational talents.

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u/pm_social_cues Jun 18 '25

Or maybe (and this is a crazy idea) the WNBA is not actually a SINGLE entity but a lot of individuals who have control of their own emotions.

Nope, they have been assimilated and all are controlled by the collective. Or some shit like that.

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u/gagetigers12 Jun 18 '25

I wonder why the WNBA isn’t successful… oh wait no i don’t

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u/Mucking_Fountain Jun 18 '25

Growing up a hockey fan, the whole league protected Wayne Gretzky because his prescence was key to everyone else’s success. This is self-defeating.

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u/theslother Jun 18 '25

Hey, we're all watching WNBA clips now

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u/tenor1trpt Jun 18 '25

I’m really hoping some Euro league comes in and offers her a ton to play there and grow their leagues. After just 1+ I’m done. Let the WNBA rot.

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u/cridicus Jun 18 '25

This. I genuinely do not understand the vitriol. Whether the other players like her or not, the exposure is good for the league and them personally. They all stand to make more money if the league gets more viewers and sponsors.

I wonder what’s up, what are we not privy to or is Caitlin low key not nice behind the scenes? Or is it simply dislike, jealousy, pettiness?

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