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  On 2/13/2025 at 6:23 PM, d2o said:

Pretty amazing some still have this view.   I'm not going to say you're the minority but the people who can name W players and view them as viable celebrity endorsers is a quickly growing group.   There is a reason the league now has a line of about 10 cities that want to get a franchise.    Its not just because of CC

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  On 2/13/2025 at 5:48 PM, chainsaw said:

I can't recognize or name a single WNBA player besides CC and perhaps Britney Griner (is she still even playing WNBA?) so I would be surprised if anyone but the highest salaried stars get that kind of revenue.

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Can't tell the difference between Dejuana Bonner or Juwanna Mann

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New CBA coming up I wonder if they will try to fight age restriction.   I doubt considering how few spots there are currently in the league but they need to.   Having to wait another 2 yrs to get Juju is not a good plan

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I don’t know how elite female athletes are spread among sports but you might think that if one women’s domestic pro league could ever seperate itself from the others with higher salaries, the athletes would tend to focus on that sport and it would grow organically that way.  Maybe wnba is slowly doing that and there will be fewer volleyball only athletes, or dual sport athletes that choose volleyball (or soccer/track/whatever but chose vball because of shared traits) as they progress into high school and college. 

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Aaliyah Edwards has destroyed some of the best player in the game on the way to the finals of this 1v1 tourney.   Now up 1 game (best 2 of 3) on Napheesa Collier.   200K for the winner.

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  On 2/14/2025 at 5:21 PM, d2o said:

New CBA coming up I wonder if they will try to fight age restriction.   I doubt considering how few spots there are currently in the league but they need to.   Having to wait another 2 yrs to get Juju is not a good plan

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I was wondering about this. They make it to where you have to attend college for 4 seasons? Watching Booker last night I'm like... shit... she could play in the W tomorrow. 

  On 2/14/2025 at 5:27 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

I don’t know how elite female athletes are spread among sports but you might think that if one women’s domestic pro league could ever seperate itself from the others with higher salaries, the athletes would tend to focus on that sport and it would grow organically that way.  Maybe wnba is slowly doing that and there will be fewer volleyball only athletes, or dual sport athletes that choose volleyball (or soccer/track/whatever but chose vball because of shared traits) as they progress into high school and college. 

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I think you're probably right. Outside of Tennis and Golf it's the only legit women's pro sports league in the US.

There are a few good women's soccer leagues overseas and I could see whatever the top tier is here gaining steam. 

I think what will mainly make it more popular is the growing star power of players like CC.

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  On 2/15/2025 at 1:35 AM, ztejas said:

I was wondering about this. They make it to where you have to attend college for 4 seasons? Watching Booker last night I'm like... shit... she could play in the W tomorrow. 

I think you're probably right. Outside of Tennis and Golf it's the only legit women's pro sports league in the US.

There are a few good women's soccer leagues overseas and I could see whatever the top tier is here gaining steam. 

I think what will mainly make it more popular is the growing star power of players like CC.

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Yep.  Juju and Hannah Hidalgo from ND are both sophomores and both could go to the W right now and ball out.

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The NWSL is a legit league as well.  At worst, it’s the second best league in the world and is without question the deepest top to bottom. Volleyball has never been more popular or competitive for girls. 

The best girl athletes generally already focus on one sport by the age of 13 or so.  You can dabble in another sport but you can’t really participate at the elite level in more than one the way the systems operate.

HS basketball is still a thing although AAU is much more important for recruiting.  HS soccer is entirely irrelevant for D1 level players who are increasingly not playing HS at all.  Colleges straight up tell their commits not to play HS.

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  On 2/16/2025 at 5:39 AM, alincoln said:

The NWSL is a legit league as well.  At worst, it’s the second best league in the world and is without question the deepest top to bottom. Volleyball has never been more popular or competitive for girls. 

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I don't think you understand how big women's basketball is getting in this country. 

I don't know one person who gives a single fuck about the NWSL. 

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  On 2/14/2025 at 5:27 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

I don’t know how elite female athletes are spread among sports but you might think that if one women’s domestic pro league could ever seperate itself from the others with higher salaries, the athletes would tend to focus on that sport and it would grow organically that way.  Maybe wnba is slowly doing that and there will be fewer volleyball only athletes, or dual sport athletes that choose volleyball (or soccer/track/whatever but chose vball because of shared traits) as they progress into high school and college. 

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It’s more about the WNBA separating itself from the NBA. Higher salaries won’t happen if that happens. And in the meantime, higher salaries are dependent on how much the NBA is willing to give. 

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It's shocking how fucking stupid Reese is. She's like pantheon-level idiot athlete all time. I hope - and am assuming - the rest of the league understands that a lockout wouldn't work. 

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