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Message: [QUOTE="ballerfan, post: 4308268, member: 11596"] UConn WBB is my favorite team, men’s or women’s, at any level, in any sport. But I love basketball generally. I watch women’s and men’s college basketball, the NBA (especially Golden State and the Bulls), the EuroLeague (ASVEL and Monaco; Kevin Durant and Emma Stone were in the stands at the Monaco game yesterday) … and the WNBA (Seattle is my favorite). I’m super bummed about E, and I hope she’ll be picked up by another team. But I’m not going to boycott the W and be part of the problem. The underlying problem in the WNBA is a lack of people in the stands and especially viewers on TV. Sure, the NBA needs to spend more money on promoting the women’s game, but the WNBA is getting more coverage in the press, and there are more games on TV now. It’s making progress, but it’s going to take time for the financial situation to change. Even if the number of players in the WNBA doubled from 144 to 288 players, it would still be extremely difficult to get on a team. Professional sports are like that. In all sports amazing players do not get on a pro team, or they do and are cut after a few years. Teams are trying to win. It’s not about fairness. [/QUOTE]