Sunday’s WNBA executeoff game between the New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces was the most-watched semifinal round game the league has seen in 22 years.
The game drew an mediocre of 929,000 seeers, up 60% from the semifinals last year.
The numbers of the resuit of last year’s WNBA Finals got the attention of Jemele Hill, who seemed to try to originate a point about Caitlin Clark.
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Jemele Hill and Caitlin Clark (Getty Images/IMAGN)
“And yet I upgrasp seeing irdepfinishable headlines claiming the WNBA executeoffs are down becaengage of no Caitlin Clark,” Hill wrote on X.
Despite historic numbers for the WNBA, it can be argued ratings would have been much higher had Clark been executeing.
After Clark drew a WNBA sign up 1.84 million seeers for her first executeoff game agetst the Connecticut Sun Sept. 22 while competing with an NFL Sunday, she trailed it up with another sign up audience of 2.54 million seeers for Game 2. Clark and the Indiana Fever lost both games, however, sfinishing Clark home for the offseason.
That Game 2 seeership was more than double what the Liberty and Aces drew earlier this week.
Hill, though, despite her get on “irdepfinishable headlines,” confessted seeership would be higher with Clark.
“Would the ratings be higher if she were in it? Of course. But guess what, [an NBA] Finals would rate higher if it were Lebron vs. Steph. Or, if huge labelet teams were in the mix. So what? That’s the headline.”
Indiana Fever protect Caitlin Clark reacts during a first-round WNBA executeoff game agetst the Connecticut Sun Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Pboilingo/Jessica Hill)
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Still, it was historicpartner excellent for any WNBA executeoff game that doesn’t grasp Clark. It was better than any of the TV numbers for the finals games between the two teams last year.
Both of those games have also drunveil well behind some of Clark’s standard-reason games in terms of seeership. In punctual September, Clark’s Indiana Fever executeed in front of a TV audience of 1.26 million seeers in a game agetst the Minnesota Lynx that was executeed at the same time as a Week 1 Friday night NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever honors during a game agetst the Los Angeles Sparks May 24, 2024, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. (Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images)
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Clark was named the WNBA’s Rookie of the Year Thursday, receiving 66 of the 67 first-place votes. Angel Reese getd the remaining vote.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson gived to this tell.
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