Woodsanity wrote:UcanUwill wrote:Woodsanity wrote:Well the wnba is losing money every year and is subsidized by the nba.
Wnba players are already using smaller balls so its not the same game anyway. If there were more dunks due to lowered rims, I bet viewership would go up.
At any rate its not like they are doing well currently anyway....
Lowering the rim IMO, is just basically giving up. Like, I shared many times that I have depression, and my psychiatrist sometimes say that I should get a dog or cat, but I feel, if I do that - that is just giving up. So yeah, lowering the rim, is an equivalent of lonely person getting a cat, I do not like the idea.
Also, WNBA is just not NBA. WNBA as mentioned, probably not even the most prestigious league in Womens basketball, it probably has some prestige because it borrows NBA's IP, but thats it, all the women players also play in foreign leagues, so will they just play 10 foot rim basketball for 7 months, but then gather to play WNBA 0n 8 foot rims for those two months? WNBA already suck as it is, it would be just nail in the coffin, I do not think many people would take it more seriously if they do that.
Do you know what typically happens when a business loses money? They go bankrupt.
I am sorry about your depression but this is a really bizarre and unrelated comparison.
The wnba is already different game from the nba already and women are different from men. Its natural that there will be some differences in sports.
Even in woman's tennis for example they play 3 sets instead of 5 in grand slams.
Now you can argue that some other change should be made instead of lowering the rim. They can do something else to increase popularity though I am not sure there are any changes they could make that would help that wouldn't cause blowback just like the lowering the rims.
Yes, you are correct about losing money part, I just do not think this is the solution at all, it would be just confirmation how non serious it is in my opinion. It would not help.
I do not know what can they really do, but personally I was never too scared that it is losing money, since NBA is basically the only actual basketball league that makes money overall, in the entire world. SO WNBA is just like all the other leagues, like what is the point for Real Madrid or Barcelona having Basketball teams, none from business perspective, Basketball outside NBA is not a business, it is just amenity that municipalities or big brands keeping alive to throw a bone to niche fans who might care about the niche sport. So, yeah, from logical and American point of view, Sports league losing money seems like dead on arrival proposition, but in reality, that is just state of Basketball. NBA will keep WNBA alive as a thing, just like Real Madrid keeping their basketball team as a thing, that is how I always saw it. We are nowhere close to Basketball actually being a global business of any kind, so, I do not really know, I do not think lowering rims would help any league.