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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3439490, member: 7631"] Good thoughts. The other thing that happened with tennis is that the marketers and broadcasters bought into the game. Wimbledon equalized prize money and put the women's final on Saturday and the Men's on Sunday, with the same time slot for both. Other tournaments followed suit. What does the NBA do? The NBA channel more often than not, broadcasts a 20-year-old NBA game rather than a marquee women's matchup. I do think the primary problem is one of marketing, and the first thing that has to happen is the NBA needs to buy in. Put more games on the NBA channel, press ESPN (or Turner, CBS, whoever) to broadcast some W games. As for price point for tickets: When my daughter was little and we were exposing her to different types of strong women, I wanted to take her to a Washington Freedom soccer match. If we wanted actual seats (rather than GA on the grass), it was gonna be something like $40 a ticket. This was during lean years when they were still trying to build a league, and I thought the price point was way too high. I found a women's baseball league, and the games were really fun. [/QUOTE]