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Message: [QUOTE="j66kicker, post: 3463395, member: 4447"] It has been said that the NBA has turned into a "star's league", and that this is responsible for its enormous popularity. David Stern gets a lot of credit for this, and they do a great job of keeping the [I]individual[/I] stars and their personal drama in the news 12 months a year via social media and obliging TV & radio sports talk gossips. May not be "purist", but the league is proactively moving in this direction because it is financially rewarding. In all other sports, including women's sports, we appreciate outstanding athleticism. But for WBB we pooh-pooh this and favor old school purist play which excludes ultra-athletic plays? Might not be for everyone, but if the WNBA wants to survive they might be able to learn something from the NBA about fan appeal....? [/QUOTE]