Colin Cowherd Exposes Caitlin Clark!

Colin coward exposes an unbelievable fact about Caitlyn Clark's game Caitlyn Clark has been going through a lot for Indiana Fever started the season off losing three games in a row and in all three she had a negative plus minus right away there were a ton of headlines highlighting her struggles but let's be real the fever weren't losing because of Caitlyn they were among the worst teams last year so they were lucky enough to get the number one pick which ended up being Caitlyn with the first pick in the 2024 WNBA draft the Indiana Fever select Caitlyn Clark University of Iowa however we did see her struggle to adjust to the higher level of competition she has faced off against some of the wnba's best defenders who have hounded her and caused her to become uncomfortable her debut is an example of this Clark made history in her very first game but for all the wrong reasons she set a record for the most turnovers in a debut game with 10 the reality is that every WNBA player has heard the chatter for the past year or so about how this generational Talent is about to come to the league and take over and none of them want to be that team which allows it to happen then there is the whole targeting allegations from the outside it looks as if players are going out of their way to hurt and test Caitlyn we saw this with Kennedy Carter's flagrant hit a foul which was called the question is will they call it unnecessary Kennedy Carter I I think that's going to be a playr one and also when Angel ree struck her across the head the F2 definition would be unnecessary and excessive while people are busy dissecting everything that is going on with Caitlyn on the court Colin coward has a rather unique perspective published WNBA team evaluations how much are WNBA teams worth not much um if you want to see the Caitlyn Clark effect here it is bad team small market and they are worth more the Indiana Fever than the Los Angeles Sparks the Dallas Atlanta Washington teams and almost equal to a team in Chicago the Caitlyn Clark effect is the real deal the term actually started back during her College days there was a drastic increase in game ticket sales and revenue for the University of Iowa and the other universities that she traveled to Iowa's away away games average 13,000 fans which is more than double the attendance for non- Iowa games at the same universities the effect translated to the WNBA as well Indiana Fever has seen dramatic increases in ticket sales and prices since Clark's announcement the average price of a ticket to a fever game is now $144 which is up 133% from last year the get in price for the fever's home opener against the New York Liberty on May 16th was $487 additionally tickets for the draft in Brooklyn New York sold out within 15 minutes according to the WNBA according to Colin we might be missing the most important part of Caitlyn's game feel like I'm watching a little bit like when Tiger Woods a little bit came to the PGA Tour suddenly within a year or two or three all the purses all the golf purses started to explode it it it it lifted all boats you went on to say that what Caitlyn is doing is even more impressive than other major sports figures because she is not only making the sport more popular but in many ways she is saving the WNBA and there is some validity to what coward is saying the game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago sky was the most watched WNBA game on any network in 23 years the last time a WNBA game pulled in those numbers Caitlyn wasn't even born yet coward even pointed to the fact that Not only was the WNBA losing a lot of money before Caitlyn got there but many teams were forced to downsize in fact so much so that in 2018 teams moved to smaller Arenas in a city of 10 million people New York the Liberty were averaging 1700 people a game the WNBA finals this past year got 700,000 viewers about half but this year the Caitlyn Clark effect is in full force to to contrast the viewership number Caitlyn's WNBA debut attracted a record-breaking audience the game averaged 2.1 million viewers across ESPN 2 ESPN plus and Disney plus making it the most watched WNBA game on ESPN platforms ever according to the network furthermore the Las Vegas Aces the wildly popular Champions are moving their July 2nd game against Clark's fever from their home to a larger 18,000 capacity venue the Los Angeles Sparks originally plan to play their first five home games at Long Beach State due to Renovations at their usual Stadium they moved a trio of contest which includes a May 24th meeting with the fever from the Collegiate facility back to the arena that they share with the NBA's Lakers so far Clark has lived up to her side of the deal she is a game changer there are more eyes on the WNBA than ever before thanks to the exceptional rookie class which is spearheaded by Caitlyn this is why it was baffling for many to see that Caitlyn was left off of the US Olympic team it's almost as if they were appeasing the WNBA vets and showing favoritism this confused the entire basketball World Michael Jordan and the Dream Team famously use the Olympics to make basketball a global game and many believe that the women's organization is messing up by not including Caitlyn but it seems like Caitlyn is taking it in stride after a rough start to the season she has started to ball out Clark surpassed 100 points and 50 assists becoming the fastest rookie to achieve this in WNBA history she was awarded the wnba's Rookie of the Month in May averaging 17.6 points 6.6 assists and 5.1 rebounds per game during that month now that is some High Praise but it is hard to argue with coward she may not be good enough to be on the Olympic team but she is easily the greatest player without even playing half a season she is the greatest player for business in the history of the league and it's not close Caitlyn Clark is clearly the future of the WNBA if not the present it's true that she won't be winning a championship or an MVP this year but she is clearly the biggest superstar in the league already her games continue to break records and the scary thing is is that she is starting to adjust to the WNBA competition it seems as if with each game she produces better and more efficient lines soon enough she could very well be the most profitable player in the league and the best player in the league now that would surely make Collins closing remarks come true so right now the Indiana Fever is worth 90 million and they've been around for years these will triple these will triple within 24 months the evaluations of these teams will triple maybe Caitlyn should look into getting some ownership rights added to her contract because she surely deserves every penny for bringing such popularity to the WNBA she has also changed the WNBA as a whole before this season WNBA teams flew commercial and could only charter flights in limited circumstances last season they could Charter during the playoffs for back-to-back games requiring air travel and for the Commissioners cup recently the league announced that they would be introducing a new chartering program which would allow all teams to fly private Caitlyn really is a GameChanger

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 23 2024