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Has anyone been following Caitlan Clark?
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2024 Jul 17, 2:10pm 1,136 views 48 comments
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She has the whole package and is already the on the court leader. She is all business. None of the ghetto jig stupidity.
Larry Bird
That’s the way I go also. I was a Lakers fan and love Magic, but his defense was pretty bad while Bird was very good defensively and gets the edge. Magic was the ultimate court general on offense and basically changed how the game was played.
Lady Brienne in GoT looks better than her.
Were we talking about looks? Is Larry Bird not great because of his face? Do you judge all atheletes by their looks? Or was that just a stupid comment?
I don't give a shit about most athletics. ESPECIALLY female sports which are all subsidized by male sports. So this is not a stupid comment.
The stupidy lies in those who assume shit w/o any evidence to the contrary that I mean what THEY imagine I must mean for some reason.
Because I can. The entire WNBA is bitches. Sorry I'm showing my sexism towards females. I've got one that's managed to be with me for 25 years and is happy. So I'm not that big of an ass hole based on data. Comedians can call women bitches but not some random on the internet? You woke now?
It's all fixed anyway. I've stopped watching ALL sports since nationwide gambling became legal. Players of any sport (male or female) are throwing games. Toss in the refs with that.
The people involved don't have to bet themselves. They have a proxy, generally not related and throw the games. This has been going on forever. Fine, they are really good athletes, but they're good actors as well. This is entertainment at the end of the day. Think WWE wrestling. That's all professional sports. Golf is the only one you can kind of get away with it, since it's individual talent. You just shoot a shitty round after a hang over after you know the odds.
Sports are dead to me. This is coming from a two time all state athlete. It's fake with some athletic people. It's about gambling and personalities that can sell.
Yup. DEI before that term was invented.
If Angel Reese wins ROTY, all will be fine.
If CC wins ROTY, the ghettos will burn.
She’s the WNBA’s Bird. Bird was stupid good. Bird may be one of the most underrated NBA players. I know that sounds absurd but, I’d pick him over LeBron.
If Angel Reese wins ROTY, the ghettos will burn and the looting will begin from JOY.
If CC wins ROTY, the ghettos will burn and the looting will begin from anger .
well i guess I should defer to you because you have the credentials to opine on caitlan's popularity.
To me the "GOAT" discussions miss the mark. It's less "who's the best athletically/ statistically" and more "who made the game fun to watch".
1) Magic - just fun to watch, especially early on before he got injured and jaded. Made everyone around him better. Steph Curry was like this in college.
2) Bird - the least gifted athletically, but it was so fun to watch him literally fuck with the better athletes. At his prime he couldn't be shut down, by anyone.
3) MJ - I never liked him even when acknowledging that he was the best athlete at the time. Would have hated to be his team mate. Gunner. Hyper competitive. Made the game all about him. Elevated by the NBA to fill the void left by Bird/Magic. If he took 50 shots a game he went to the foul line after 40 of them. Yeah his statistics, his rings. Good basketball should be fun to watch - not emotionally draining.
Kolbe - never watched a single game of his.
Wilt - too young to see him play but based on interwebz info he has to be in every conversation.
Lebron - haven't watch too much of him, but he's never transformed the game for me. I aged out of watching NBA before he got rolling.
This is why he's in my ride or die 3. He was making crazy ass layups before Jordan did and, like I mentioned above, he was stupid smart. The other 2 are just too hard to pick. Not sure how he and Jordan would get along on the court in their primes. Bird didn't back down to anyone.
You're not getting what I'm saying. WNBA, NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, etc. are all rigged and planned. No one would bet on my event, but as an individual it wouldn't be a big deal to have an "off" day and my buddy from my band bet $1,000 on me to lose and he get a 20% cut.
This is what sports are. I don't care about popularity. It's a math problem. There are more whites with money willing to go to a WNBA game. Blacks don't have money and then the players see a white washed stadium and get jealous. Their jealousy by default is creating even more popularity from whites because CC is white. A majority of the population is white.
Either way, as a former sports fan, I'm done with it beside golf since it's not a contract sport. You either win or you're broke. You fuck up on the final round, but the purse from 1st to 2nd is usually a 6 figure difference. Tennis is actually similar too. Contract sports are trash because there's no incentive to win.
So CC is popular, who cares? Her league is fixed. Good for her, but I ain't watching a game in my lifetime. Just clips.
Lebron is not a top 10, so just take that one off. I don't care regular season stats, which is all that guy has been doing the last few years and not winning when it matters, even with other hall of famers.
MJ, Bird, Kobe would be my top three in that order for fun to watch and on the Mt Rushmore of basketball GOATS. Shaq is up there for fun to watch. I was a kid and was watching live when he broke the entire basket rig or whatever it's called.
I don't give too much credit to the mid 80's and prior players. At least when the league was smaller as far as teams and literally height of players. I watch my son who is tall just toy with smaller more athletic players at basketball. Height matters. So it's hard to put Wilt up that high, though he was a good player.
But I did get the part when you felt inclined to state that you were a 2 time all state athlete as if that mattered to the discussion.
Last season, before CLARK, the Fever had the second-lowest average home attendance in the WNBA at 4,067 tickets sold per game, according to BeyondWomensSports.com. While it marked a significant improvement over Fever attendance in 2022 (1,776 per game), it was still one of the least-popular WNBA teams.
All of that changed upon Clark’s arrival. Since Clark was drafted by Indiana with the first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, ticket sales for the WNBA increased by 93 percent, other WNBA teams had to start relocating their home games against the Fever to bigger arenas. Meanwhile, Indiana saw record-setting ticket sales with massive interest in attendance at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, which has a seating capacity of 18,000.
I guess some people care.
This is correct. Yes it’s women. Yes even the all star women’s team couldn’t beat even junior college men’s teams.
But the games can be entertaining. While I don’t like anything shoved down my throat, CC seems to be the star the female sport needs. Nothing wrong with women having a sports showcase. Women’s tennis got its first real star in Billie Jean King in the 70’s and women’s tennis has been a thing ever since. Women’s golf as well. The players passion on the women’s soccer teams in the Olympics gave them a real stage.
CC seems to be the real deal. Her elevating the stature of women’s basketball isn’t a bad thing.
Never said it was a bad thing. It's not her doing it though. It's the league. They want attention because they don't generate revenue. So they turn it into a black vs white issue. People with money are white. She might end up being the GOAT of the WNBA. I don't care. She's a pawn because the league doesn't generate revenue and people lose their jobs at some point or the league crumbles.
Look at Lebron. He's only won when he jumps around teams, but the league wanted him to be great. It backfired. All this shit is fixed for gambling, marketing and sponsorships. It's money.
komputodo says
It's not about caring. I'd rather watch female volleyball 10 out of 10 times. I'm not into watching butch lesbians play basketball. They got a semi-attractive white girl that can play and are running with it. This is obvious as can be. Black people don't pay money or watch a mostly black league. Women don't watch sports for the most part. They don't play them either. Do you guys not go around and see women today? The WNBA got lucky with a Steph Curry type shooter. Steph won chips, but he won't be an all time great.
Fat women don't want to watch athletic women, so 30% of viewers are gone out the gate. 90% of men aren't watching women's basketball. This flash in the pan moment will be just that. Posted this so prove me wrong when the ratings drop off a cliff.
When i would travel with the wife and there was nothing to do in the evening, instead of going to see a suck ass movie or go to a bar, I would try to find a college sporting event like womens volleyball or mens hockey....cheap tickets and more fun.
100% agree
I'm an ass guy (for ladies). You know if you know with female volleyball. Looking doesn't equate to cheating. Wife likes volleyball and supporting women's sports. Win win.
and popcorn doesn't cost $8
Is this fake or real?
Honestly don’t know but the View regulars can’t shut up with their criticism of her.
It's a bunch of catty cunts. All they'll do is attack her for being good at something. Jealously is a hard pill to swallow. Females are waaaaaaaaaaaay worse than men. Even modern men are little bitches. A ton are jealous of my wife for fucks sake. There are plenty of successful women you could have gotten, you're just a loser and they didn't pick you.
Given the majority of the population is white, Asian or Mexican, females are probably more racist towards blacks than men. So a female league is doomed to fail if it's mostly black. Women don't want to watch black women play basketball. Guys want to see dunks and athleticism. You've eliminated 90% of your potential audience then factor in income and you're pulling from 1-2% of the population at best.
She is similar to Lebron. Hyped up as the league started dragging after Jordan, Kobe and Shaq left or were about to leave. Lebron can play, but he's not even a top 20 player all time (don't care about longevity stats and taking days off). WNBA needed a bump from a white girl and they got it. She's good, but not great. Winners win when it matters. We'll see how Clark does in the future, too early now.
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