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[DatHomieYouHaTe]

Sports is all about stars. I don’t know what it is, but WNBA hasn’t been able to develop a worldly superstar. Candace is the closest. Womens tennis is going through the same thing post Williams sisters era

If Masai can get this one on our WNBA team it could be huge for the city and the sport!!

[Westside Gunn]

I said it before and I'll say it again, the WNBA is better off in a smaller town/city with no sports teams within a 200km radius. Establish a team in Winnipeg, Regina, Ottawa, Halifax, wherever. Towns that have no basketball, but will spend money on a game to support a couple of sports teams in their cities. Small towners will treat the brand like its family. Torontonians are brand whores. The only reason why this became a subject was because Drake brought it up. A big brand name in the US.

The entire strategy of the WNBA is messed up. They have teams established in cities with major league teams in every sport. Relocate to sport hungry towns, and your attendance will skyrocket.

The feminists mostly dont GAF about the WNBA. The eyes are always on the big boys club.

[Brinbe]

WNBA would be an easy success here. Trying to use the US market for any real gauge for how it'd go here is so fn stupid, it hurts my head.

The women's game is growing year-by-year and the timeframe in which the season is held (may-august) would generate lots of interest here since it doesn't conflict with the Raps/Leafs and would be a solid third to the Jays/TFC during the spring/summer months.

Hope it happens soon!

[Kingsway_fan]

Huge for the city and for the sport in Canada.

[brownbobcat]

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I should probably know who this girl is but I don't. A Canadian player?

Paige Bueckers - highly hyped D1 player.

[ReggieSlater]

I'd go to games in the summer if I was in town. Might watch a bit on TV. I really like the idea. To those saying it should only be in small towns, understand that the current structure of the league is to run in the offseason and only when the NBA isn't playing. Not much spill over so doesn't have to be in smaller towns. The idea of a WNBA team in Ottawa is funny. Wouldn't work.

[WaltFrazier]

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I should probably know who this girl is but I don't. A Canadian player?

Paige Bueckers - highly hyped D1 player.

Yeah I learned that since I posted, plays like a guy, close friend of Suggs growing up. I think she injured her knee this season too?

[Shaazzam]

lol lol Basketball is big in Canada / Ontario especially. Womans basketball too has been exploding over the last decade as well. It will be supported well.

We don't have a NFL team, no way you say that if we were getting one. The point to getting a WNBA team is because we don't have one.

The NBA is pretty popular in Canada and especially the Raps and many people also play basketball, but all that doesn't mean it will translate into these same people tuning into WNBA games. How many years have people said that women's hockey is growing and gaining popularity and yet its still the same as it is like 10-20 years ago. I doubt the WNBA will do any better here.

I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong if it does well, but I doubt it. Maybe if women and girls really take to a Toronto WNBA it might do OK, but considering most women don't follow sports and those that do usually follow men's sports, I'll be surprised if they don't take losses like the rest of the WNBA does.

Womans basketball is big in Ontario right now, basketball from elementary all the way up to the collegiate level, is big right now. Those parents along with their children are going to support it. Basketball fans are going to support it. Plus it's in the summertime, it's 100% going thrive here.

We have the CBL + CBEL here growing, the WNBA is going to thrive here with corp backing. It's another advertising stream for several companies.

Basketball is cheaper too participate in than hockey. I wouldn't compare the two.

[brownbobcat]

I don't doubt that women's basketball is pretty popular in Ontario and maybe in Canada in general. I doubt how many of them will actually go out and buy tickets to a WNBA game and go consistently for a whole season like they would a Raptors or Leafs games. There's tons of females playing basketball in the US too aren't there? Probably millions and yet not even a fraction of them care to go to WNBA games there either or even tune in consistently to watch those games on TV. If they did in any significant numbers then the WNBA wouldn't be losing money since it came into existence and require never ending funding from the NBA.

It's not even a question of women's sports, necessarily. Soccer participation rates in the U.S. are pretty high all the way up to the collegiate levels and it's a pretty cheap sport to play. Still, a pro league like MLS has made very little headway to breaking into the big-4 leagues. Compare that to say, NASCAR. I don't know anybody that races at any level - does anyone? Doesn't matter, tons of people watch.

[DreamTeam09]

I don't doubt that women's basketball is pretty popular in Ontario and maybe in Canada in general. I doubt how many of them will actually go out and buy tickets to a WNBA game and go consistently for a whole season like they would a Raptors or Leafs games. There's tons of females playing basketball in the US too aren't there? Probably millions and yet not even a fraction of them care to go to WNBA games there either or even tune in consistently to watch those games on TV. If they did in any significant numbers then the WNBA wouldn't be losing money since it came into existence and require never ending funding from the NBA.

It's not even a question of women's sports, necessarily. Soccer participation rates in the U.S. are pretty high all the way up to the collegiate levels and it's a pretty cheap sport to play. Still, a pro league like MLS has made very little headway to breaking into the big-4 leagues. Compare that to say, NASCAR. I don't know anybody that races at any level - does anyone? Doesn't matter, tons of people watch.

MLS soccer is doing just fine, great actually.

A baseball game the other day had like ~500 fans in the seats...

[brownbobcat]

MLS soccer is doing just fine, great actually.

A baseball game the other day had like ~500 fans in the seats...

Depends on your definition of "fine". MLS TV deal is less than $100M annually - individual teams get that in baseball.

[Tor_Raps]

As long as the wnba team can self sustain and not take anything away from the Raptors (assuming its the same ownership group), I'm all for it.

[Kingsway_fan]

Basketball and soccer are the future of sports in Canada.... already prime amongst the under 40 crowd.

[Huskies1947]

I don't doubt that women's basketball is pretty popular in Ontario and maybe in Canada in general. I doubt how many of them will actually go out and buy tickets to a WNBA game and go consistently for a whole season like they would a Raptors or Leafs games. There's tons of females playing basketball in the US too aren't there? Probably millions and yet not even a fraction of them care to go to WNBA games there either or even tune in consistently to watch those games on TV. If they did in any significant numbers then the WNBA wouldn't be losing money since it came into existence and require never ending funding from the NBA.

It's not even a question of women's sports, necessarily. Soccer participation rates in the U.S. are pretty high all the way up to the collegiate levels and it's a pretty cheap sport to play. Still, a pro league like MLS has made very little headway to breaking into the big-4 leagues. Compare that to say, NASCAR. I don't know anybody that races at any level - does anyone? Doesn't matter, tons of people watch.

MLS soccer is doing just fine, great actually.

A baseball game the other day had like ~500 fans in the seats...

Are you talking about Oakland with the 500 fans? If yes, that team's owner is openly talking to Las Vegas to move them there and never spends money to compete. On top of that they play in a terrible stadium built for multipurpose. This is the closest thing to the Montreal Expos.

I don't blame them.

[brownbobcat]

Are you talking about Oakland with the 500 fans? If yes, that team's owner is openly talking to Las Vegas to move them there and never spends money to compete. On top of that they play in a terrible stadium built for multipurpose. This is the closest thing to the Montreal Expos.

I don't blame them.

If anything, a trash org like the Oakland As receiving nearly as much TV revenue as all of MLS before a single ticket is sold shows how good the economics for baseball are.

[Huskies1947]

Are you talking about Oakland with the 500 fans? If yes, that team's owner is openly talking to Las Vegas to move them there and never spends money to compete. On top of that they play in a terrible stadium built for multipurpose. This is the closest thing to the Montreal Expos.

I don't blame them.

If anything, a trash org like the Oakland As receiving nearly as much TV revenue as all of MLS before a single ticket is sold shows how good the economics for baseball are.

Yup - NFL/NBA/MLB are no longer gate driven leagues. However, you want a good market to maximize revenues. This is a massive difference vs the 80s and 90s where ticket sales were a large portion of revenues.

MLS on the other hand is still very much ticket driven as that's the overwhelming largest piece of their team's revenues.

[WuTang_CMB]

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Interesting look at those odds

2 teams r going to get teams

[maternal85]

question is would they play at scotiabank arena?
or shuffled off to some other arena, coca cola collesim? Paramount centre
my bet is that its not Scotiabank.

I think it would be at S B.

No it wouldn't. I caught a Sparks game the other day. The stadium was literally empty. It was embarrassing. The best part was DeRozan bringing his daughter to the game. She actually fell asleep during the game. It was funny.

[maternal85]

Sports is all about stars. I don’t know what it is, but WNBA hasn’t been able to develop a worldly superstar. Candace is the closest. Womens tennis is going through the same thing post Williams sisters era

It's hard to market a superstar that can't dunk.

[douggood]

Sports is all about stars. I don’t know what it is, but WNBA hasn’t been able to develop a worldly superstar. Candace is the closest. Womens tennis is going through the same thing post Williams sisters era

It's hard to market a superstar that can't dunk.

steph curry