It’s supposed to be a basketball game that the fans come to see, but often enough—at least whenever the Indiana Fever and Sophie Cunningham are in the building—it’s more like people coming to the fights and having a basketball game break out.
So much drama is unbecoming of a professional caliber sport.
Caitlin Clark attracts a similar amount of attention, and between the two of them, the distraction level often enough skyrockets. It is difficult not to chalk this up to simmering racial animosity, jealousy, and just plain poor sportsmanship. In addition, it’s becoming reminiscent of an average soccer match, where choreographed tumbles and crying to the ref are annoying staples that waste time and cheapen the product.
Anyway, all these extracurricular activities are dragging down the women’s game. They take away from the game itself. People may well come to expect a certain amount of aggressive play, but judging from what ends up on YouTube and ESPN, there’s a regular diet of headlocks and fisticuffs and flagrant fouls. It’s gone way beyond just pushing and shoving, which may put butts in the seats and bolsters viewership, but somehow diminishes the value of the WNBA.
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