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[QUOTE="Matrim55, post: 5244673, member: 3376"]
1) Don't be a rube. Every league claims it's "losing money!" because that's what billionaires do. The reality is most sports teams are run dead even or at a slight loss while the owners collect local tax breaks on property, get the state to pay for facility upgrades, etc. All of which boosts the asset value.

As for the WNBA, virtually every teams is owned by the same owner/ownership group that owns the arena it plays in. But the gameday receipts don't go to the team, they go to the ownership group via the arena. So there's, what, 16 WNBA teams? x20(ish) home games each? Waaaaaay more than $40m just in gameday receipts. Probably triple.

Owners have been doing this for more than 100 years.

2) The "media hype" is based on ratings, popularity on search and social media.

Here's the past 20 years of "WNBA" as a search trend. You can see it was steadily growing:

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Then Clark happened and she, it turns out, is their Magic/Bird moment.
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