The WNBA made a huge mistake following their envy of Caitlin Clark and keeping her off the Olympic team.
Five women from the WNBA kept Caitlin Clark off of the 2024 Women’s Basketball team. They hate and envy Clark. They must, because at the time of the decision Clark had more threes this year in the WNBA than any player on the Olympic team and more assists than all but one player selected.
The envious women cost the sport of women’s basketball dearly in viewership and related revenues.
Sunday’s WNBA game between Caitlin Clark’s team, the Fever, and the Chicago Sky was the most watched WNBA game in 23 years.
Sunday’s Chicago Sky-Indiana Fever game averaged 2.25 million viewers on CBS.
It was the most-watched WNBA game on any network in 23 years, up 225% from the same window last season. pic.twitter.com/dNxv9jXJEx
— Front Office Sports (@FOS) June 18, 2024
But the WNBA has a long way to go before it surpasses Clark’s Iowa team’s viewership this past year. Three of the top six BASKETBALL games in viewership included Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes, including the most watched basketball game this year, Clark and the Hawkeyes verses South Carolina in the Women’s NCAA Championship game.
Three of the top six most watched basketball games (MBB, WBB, NBA, WNBA) so far in 2024 have included the Iowa Women’s Basketball team. https://t.co/JJVu1f08Cx
— Kyle Huesmann (@HuesmannKyle) June 19, 2024
The top WNBA games in viewership on six networks all involved Caitlin Clark.
6 networks have set personal WNBA viewership records this season;
CBS: 2.25M Fever-Sky
ESPN2: 2.1M Fever-Sun
ABC: 1.7M Fever-Liberty
ESPN: 1.56M Fever-Sun
Ion: 1.02M Fever-Mystics
NBA TV: 430K Fever – LibertyCaitlin. Clark. Effect.#WNBA pic.twitter.com/uoK3O3xcgg
— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) June 18, 2024
Hey Joe, love all your stuff about Caitlin Clark. I mentioned before you got me watching her about 2 weeks before the end of the college season and up till now I don’t think I’ve missed but one or two games. Thank you. I watched your 1 p.m. show as often as I can or catch the rebroadcast later that evening. When you talk about how good of a station Lindell TV is I agree but you never mention the 3:00 p.m. Eastern show with Will, let’s talk about it he does a good show. God bless you and your brother
Joe is a salt of the earth straight talking Godly man. He always talks about the important subjects. Everything that a care greatly about. Love his show!
It may be a blessing that Caitlin is not going to the Olympics. I wouldn’t put it past one of the other players planting drugs on Caitlyn to get her busted in another country.