I followed some of the teams when the league first formed. I was a big fan of the Toxic Shock, which was the Detroit franchise that later moved to Tulsa and was coached by Nolan Richardson. They moved the team to Dallas, earning Red Wings as their new name. The Milwaukee Froth were pretty fun to watch when they were in the league. They had a guard named Michelle Yeestie who had an itchy shooting finger and used to put up shots from everywhere. The Santa Fe Taco were a pretty good team but they folded, as were the Chicago Flow, who are also defunct after bleeding money and operating in the red for years. They can't seem to keep these teams afloat for long enough to build a fanbase, unfortunately.
They should make a basketball lingerie league
There was a court behind my dorm in college that had some of the better pick up games on campus and occasionally some of the players on the women's team would come out and play with us. They were cool with the style of play and if you left them open they'd hit their shots, but otherwise, they just weren't strong enough, fast enough, or athletic enough. And these were D-1 players going up against a mix of former HS players and guys who never played organized ball after 8th grade. I'll happily watch women's tennis, gymnastics, skiing, softball, lacrosse, and even soccer, but not women's basketball (professional or college). Hell, even back when she was playing basketball, my daughter couldn't stand watching the WNBA.The league is an exercise in futility. Unless you are inventing something new you can't create a market for something out of thin air. Basketball already existed. If people wanted to pay big money to watch women do it, someone would have already offered it. It's pandering - plain and simple. It has to be subsidized by the NBA to even exist.
Someone posted a non sequitur (meaning here a formal fallacy not a punch line) that the women could "beat anyone on this forum." And? So could any NBA player or for that matter any 15 year-old all-state basketball player. Both of those category of people would incidentally also thrash the elite of the WBNA - as routinely happens when women's world cup teams warm up with U15 boys teams. They do this because the level of play of those boys exceeds the level of play they will see in the World Cup Finals.
Simply saying "they are better than you" in no way indicates they are worthy of having a league dedicated to their play and get paid for it - especially when that pay is largely a by-product of other people's superior achievement. Everyone in the Olympics is better than me at Curling but I couldn't keep a straight face if I were to suggest we needed a professional league with TV coverage for it.
Proving the point yet again, that people will do anything for money.A few years ago a bunch of sharps in Vegas made some serious coin on the WNBA.
They realized the odds were made without much research because no one bet on it. After studying the teams they were way ahead of the oddsmakers and exploited the lines.
It must have been a huge profit to endure the agony of becoming a WNBA expert.
THIS times 100. Sports are good for kids. I was talking to a fella the other day about all things BEYOND just skills you learn from being on a team. I loved seeing my little gals show the boys they could play in PE. At times my best athletes and even football players BB and softball were girls. One year my gals could beat my boys in soccer and I had some good boy athletes. My girls just played smarter and one actually played in a league. She convinced the other girls they could be good and BY GOD the got good.never been to a basketball game other than a gator mens game. and I'm probably going to get some **** for the following sentence.
speaking as the father of two girls, one of which is now gaining interests (lion king, the girl with long hair, driving her little electric car around), if the sport can get young kids (girls) interested in athletics (no matter how un-athletic and uninteresting the players are), let the NBA keep losing money on it. its not like you're their target audience ox.
You're just being kind. I was so jealous of what you wrote I wanted to spit........You are missing your calling I swear. I have read comedic writers and you have a REAL talent.I give you a series of brilliant puns, punctuated by an incredibly clever and perfectly crafted "Father of the Blues" pun, and this is the best you can do? You need to come out of the closet already, Alvin. The strain of hiding your furtive, anonymous sexual encounters has left you with no sense of humor.
Alvin...........he werent talking seriously. His first post was a fckn masterpiece about women's womanly stuff. You stayed in the hills WAY to long. You may shoot straighter than most men but you aint got a clue about what Pasty was talking about......You take this joke WNBA and dare to speak seriously on the topic?
You mean THE NBA pays her well. That league cannot sustain itself.I have a buddy's who's wife is a dietitian/nutritionist and she works part-time for the Mystics (the DC WNBA team). They pay her well, surprisingly.
I have a buddy's who's wife is a dietitian/nutritionist and she works part-time for the Mystics (the DC WNBA team).