If this weren’t an election year, possibly even Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
She’s been just that big.
Consider the following bullet points:
America hasn’t been able to get enough of her.
And the attention she’s drawn has transformed her sport.
Despite the billions that have been invested over the decades.
She’s made the league popular.
…
By comparison, last years WNBA Finals between the Aces and Liberty averaged 728,000 viewers.
But logic doesn’t apply to this situation.
The other “much-ballhooed Caitlin Clark effect” is that her career success makes people lose their damned minds.
Or with management, who announces another round of massive layoffs seemingly every month.
But I guess on some level, I get where David Dennis Jr. is coming from.
Playing to small audiences where everybody knew everybody else.
There was a personal connection.
They felt like they were part of something special.
Then the band had a huge hit.
And suddenly they started moving to bigger venues and sold out shows.
All the new fans came in acting like THEY were the ones who discovered this group and ruined everything.
So they lost that feeling of being in on the ground floor of a movement.
Reduced to being just another face in the maddening crowd.
There’s nothing David Dennis Jr. or any of the old school WNBA stans can do.
Caitlin Clark’s “toxic” fans are here as long as she is.
At least you still have your memories of those seasons BCC to comfort you:
