R.WNBA is one of those championships that are permanently located at the crossroads. In the nineties, the league was affected by the challenge facing the American Basketball League (ABL), which paid higher salaries but was lacking in the marketing muscle in the American Professional League, but perhaps this victory gave a dose of contentment from us in the American Professional League and WNBA. The attendees fell steadily for several years, and went through the rotating doors from one city to another – or to a permanent stop.
Now, with the width of women’s sport in the middle of the prosperous growth and skills in Caitlin Clark, WNBA has an old issue: more money, more problems-or at least, more critics invoke more questions.
In voting on all-strat, Wnba Caitlin Clarak players occupied the ninth. Is this ridiculous?
We live in a media scene in which the “talents of generations” are so strong that the American Professional League fans began to panic around Cooper Flag when he had a weak performance in the first summer league. Anyone knows who follows her career in college, as she only has an unusual shooting range. She can dominate a game with her death, even if her shots are not falling.
Clark definitely has a lot of work that must be done before it runs the angle from being the league The most exciting Player to become the league better Player. In its upward year, Calculated basketball reference Its PER, which is a scale of total effectiveness, in 18.8, anywhere near the best four of A’Ja Wilson (34.9), Breanna Stewart (26.4), Brittney Griner (26.0) and Naphesa Collier (25.1).
But he tends to prefer the attackers and centers – his colleague in the Clark team in Indiana, 2023 is the best draft total selection of Boston, who was also ahead of Clark. Between the guards, it was in third place. She also led the league in help for each game with 8.4, with only Alyssa Thomas (7.9) anywhere. On the other hand, the league also led the rotation with an amazing score of 5.6 per game – Thomas again ranked 3.6.
This year, Clark struggles with injuries, and most of its registration numbers and shooting have decreased significantly. Looking at the short window, it is ridiculed for the WNBA season, it may not have time to withdraw its average season until it was last year.
WNBA actually has a trilogy of the “talent of generations” youth who entered the league in the twenties of the last century. The first was SABRINA IENESCU, a three-numbers 3-year-old record machine, which was a slow and exciting start in its professional career, but since then it has made the second WWNBA team three consecutive years-and certainly had a case to make the first team before Clark last year. Next is the Paige Bueckers, which almost collects the rising season on an equal footing with the Clark season last year. Within a year or two, depending on the date of its announcement of the draft, Wnba Juju Watkins will add from USC.
In a vote on the media and player, the player, the captain was a Buickers team in Dallas, Alisha Gray. It is funny how they seem to bear responsibility for the wings in the last position, yet critics wander around Clark because Indiana does not dominate.
So the fans were mistaken in Clark first and ionic Fifth. But the voices of the players were harsh on the stars (Clark) and the Olympic (Jackie Young was in the twelfth place; Kelssy Bloom AB Wilde on the sixteenth). For one time, the media may have obtained it properly, as its third arrangement.
Truth or imagination: truth
Does the league also depend on Clark?
In an unidentified survey of Wnba by The Athletic, most of the respondents said that Clark would be the face of Wnba within five years. But it was a small majority of 53.8 %. Watkins was second, and the seeds were third. After that he was the first not guard, Clark Nimis Angel Reese, Aga Wilson, who was just MVP in WNBA (for the third time) and Olympic Games in 2024.
However, WNBA is heading towards the highest average of its presence ever (see below), somewhat driven by Clark but also through enthusiasm behind Golden State Valkyries expansion. While the classifications Certainly dropping When you get wounds, they do not fall to the floor.
Perhaps the fact that Clark did not arise immediately as the best player in the league that made people realize that the veterans such as Wilson, Stewart, Grener, Coller and UNESCO know how to play some ball as well.
Truth or imagination: imagination
The lack of overcoming the league
In Futurma, a female computer feels horror when they learned that men who landed on the planet of all defense mocking women’s basketball.
“What?! Have you explained how the good basics of women are compensated for not being able to be without you?” The computer, expressed by Bea Arthur.
Men mocked this concept. But the basics of the WNBA players are already good, the most prominent of which are free throws – the American Professional League higher Total percentage for the past ten years (78.4 %, 2023-24) behind Wnba’s minimum (78.5 %, 2024, a decrease from 80.0 % in the previous year and 80.8 % in 2021).
WNBA is also a more league league than the American Professional League, which sees its stars shining with individual conjunctions. In 2024, 68.6 % of the field goals in WNBA’s play was the result of help. In the American Professional League last season, the number was 63.6 %.
In the American Professional League, you may see Anthony Edwards exploding after the defender of Donk. In Wnba, you may see Caitlin Clark Whip a Pass by seeking just humans did not expect. Real basketball fans are estimated at both, and the United States has many real basketball fans.
Truth or imagination: imagination
Was Wnba afflicted the ruling below the required level?
Wnba officials had their share of critics this year, among them the prominent players Angel Rais (Chicago) and Kelly Bloom (Los Angeles), trainers Natalie Naka (Golden State) and Stephanie White (Indiana).
The latter’s criticism followed a match against the sun of Connecticut in which Clark was revived in Al Ain in the third quarter, and the Clark striker had stumbled near the end of the game with no doubt about no doubt, which prompted a quarrel that witnessed three people who were expelled.
White’s complaint was a familiar abstinence: “The referees lost control of the game.”
Do?
The Eye Poke on Clark has put out a blatant mistake on Jacy Sheldon from Connecticut, while Clark and two Connecticut players got technical errors. At the last minute, Shieldon went to Sophie Caningham in Indiana, who pulled Shieldon to the ground.
Keningham Be able to He argues that Shieldon started calling by reducing her shoulder and shipping, such as running player or Rakhbi player, and that she fell off the accidentally while stumbling back. But she adopted her and the fever is the idea that Keningham Fill On the side of NHL, a star player protects when he does not. The sales of the Kningham shirt passed through the ceiling, and the sale of entrepreneurs Memorial shirts In her honor.
Maybe WnBA has found a new source of revenue?
Referees in WNBA are much lower than their American Professional League counterparts, so no one should be surprised if the men’s association attracts more referees experience. But the rulers are not the ones who escalate things even after stark and technical errors have been called.
The American Professional League rulers are not exactly on suspicions. Even if we threw the deviation of Tim Dunjhi, the sentence who spent time in the prison after a gambling playing, the USA referees were the subject of many vital violations over the years. Anthony Edwards in one season can pay many WNBA salaries.
Should Wnba Refs do more to protect stars like Clark so that Cunningham does not feel that he is forced to do it on herself? maybe. But they will also do well to avoid the absurdity of the nineties, when he can try to just try to protect Michael Jordan Safra.
Truth or imagination: mixed
This is not the easiest set of questions, and it is just part of the league tasks list now. WNBA has carefully managing expansion with a fair collective negotiation agreement to prevent work stopping.
But these are happier questions that must be observed than “Will you survive the league this season?”