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Victor Davis Hanson: This WNBA Controversy Just Got Bigger

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There is more controversy surrounding the Women’s National Basketball Association. Remember, the WNBA is owned by the NBA, and for years it had not shown a profit, and it was a subsidy provided by the men’s National Basketball Association to the women’s.

And then something happened. Caitlin Clark, the star college player from Indiana, joined the Indiana Fever. Now, there was a problem there, to be candid, because—it shouldn’t have been a problem, but apparently, the women’s basketball association is 65% to 70% African American, and people have argued that it’s also 35% to 40% gay.

So, you had a marquee player in Clark, who is white and heterosexual, joining a league which the American public didn’t really, to be frank, pay much attention to. Poor attendance, very meager TV revenues, almost no merchandising, just sort of an adjacent auxiliary charity, so to speak, of the NBA. And then everything changed.

Clark turned out, as everybody expected, to be a superstar. Her games in Indiana are sold out. When she plays on the road, many of those games are sold out. All of the players got a second look in the league, and their TV revenues and merchandising contracts soared. People have estimated that if you look at the television revenue, the merchandising revenue, the attendance revenue, and the private contracts individual players use themselves, in addition to the league revenue, that Caitlin Clark may have been responsible for a $1 billion surge in total league and individual revenues.

So, you’d think that she would be worshiped, but as we said before on one of our videos, she’s been beat up. She’s intentionally fouled. She’s had flagrant fouls. And the general impression that the public has after watching this is that she is a target because of envy and jealousy, that she gets so much public attention and media attention that the other players, who feel they’ve been in the league longer, have been neglected.

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