"Why do a number of women's sports succeed, yet basketball fails?" Where does basketball go wrong? I comes down to what is wrong with the above video; Basketball is NOT Basketball.
The WNBA has long compared themselves to the NBA and there in lies the problem: you're not the NBA. Your skill level is is lower, your athleticism is lower and your ability to dunk is nonexistent. But for some reason you WNBA are still alive and beating and it's because of the underlined sexism.
If we put aside the fact that there are women and even the fact that the people who support the staying alive of this sport are mostly women then all you are left with is a failing business.
Like any business minded person, I understand that after a decade and some change of existence and my books aren’t safely in the black, I’m going to start weighing my options and find a way out. But because men don’t want to be mean and women don’t want to lose their independence and fall back in time, we are stuck with a sport that nobody wants and is milking the NBA dry.
Here is what I want to say, can women's sport's succeed? YES THEY CAN! Should women be allowed to play and grow in their own sport and own way? HECK YEA! But stop feeding me this lie that the game is the same. Ladies should be able to be ladies and not draw comparison to their male counter parts. You don't see Mia Hamm challenging David Beckham to a match. And when Serena Williams or Maria Sharapova are out on the court, you don't see them trying to compare themselves to Roger Federer or Pete Sampris. No, they just come out and play the game they love to play and they just happen to do a great job of entertaining us along the way.
In the blogs to come, I will talk more about the lack of sales in the individual cities which contributes greatly to the overall failure in addition to the bad timing of the WNBA (having its season in the summer during MLB and when most people are on vacation) and the advertising in the media.
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