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[QUOTE="crewbear742, post: 2700011, member: 7435"]
Women's Tennis has the advantage of an audience. Even the USWNT has an audience albeit once every four years. The WNBA just got removed from MSG. For E-Sports. Why? Because the opportunity cost was just too high. The WNBA didn't deserve the venue. The WNBA can try to demand what it likes, but what leverage does it possess? The "cause" of Women's Basketball can only get them so far.

The problem with the WNBA isn't bad marketing or lack of exposure or any of the other excuses offered up. The problem is the product. For good or ill, the population that drives sports consumption in this country has no interest in the WNBA. There are reasons for that reality. Some of those reasons may be considered socially acceptable. Some not. That doesn't make them any less real. And they can't be ameliorated by a "consciousness raising" campaign.

The WNBA is a niche sport with a very low ceiling. Trying to make it into something it can never be is only going to lead to frustration.
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