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I love Jesus, my family, coaching basketball, motivating people, and being a #GirlDad.
Wake Forest, NC
Joined April 2017
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@3KyraParker @CarolinaWavesBB Sophomore season highlights! 2022 Combo Guard flying under the radar rising quickly! hudl.com/video/3/13448127/5e…
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🚨 THE WNBA GOT ITS DREAM FINALS STORYLINE WITH ANGEL REESE. NOW LOOK AT THE EMPTY SEATS.
Angel Reese has reached the WNBA Finals before Caitlin Clark, a storyline that couldn't be more convenient for the league's relentless promotion of Reese as one of its biggest stars.
But here's the brutal reality. The Atlanta Dream averaged only 9,695 fans across three home playoff games at State Farm Arena, a building that accommodates approximately 17,000.
Their postseason crowds have hardly demonstrated overwhelming demand for championship basketball.
Now we're being told Atlanta may have to host the WNBA FINALS in their 3,500-seat home arena, a venue smaller than plenty of high school gyms.
And spare us the suggestion that State Farm Arena is the only larger option in metropolitan Atlanta.
Georgia Tech's McCamish Pavilion seats 8,600. Gas South Arena in nearby Duluth accommodates up to 13,000. Both have been used in the past to accommodate professional basketball games.
And here's the most embarrassing comparison of all: Buford High School, in metro Atlanta, has a basketball arena that accommodates 5,000 spectators. A local HIGH SCHOOL has a larger basketball venue than the Atlanta Dream will use to host the WNBA FINALS.
Are we seriously supposed to believe a league convinced it has a massive championship draw cannot find a way to accommodate more than 3,500 paying fans?
The WNBA has spent years selling the Angel Reese phenomenon. Here's its opportunity to prove that the hype translates into sustained ticket demand when the championship is on the line.
Because all the publicity, social media engagement and manufactured superstar narratives in the world cannot substitute for paying customers.
If the demand is truly there, show us. Fill a larger building.
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3yrs straight all these vets & old guard fans really been trying to get a then 22, now 24yr old girl from Iowa to put an end to racism and solve all the world's problems for them.
Tell me she ain't the face of the league. She's the one everybody looks to, including her haters.
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At some point, we have to stop talking about Caitlin Clark as a phenomenon and start talking about her as what she has become:
One of the best basketball players in the world.
The crowds are real.
The ratings are real.
The attention she has brought to the WNBA is real.
But none of that should overshadow the basketball anymore.
Clark just finished her third WNBA season averaging 22.3 points and 8.3 assists per game, becoming the first player in league history to finish a season in the top three in both scoring and assists. She helped orchestrate the highest-scoring offense the WNBA has ever seen.
And when the MVP votes were counted, she finished fourth in the league, behind A’ja Wilson, Olivia Miles and her own teammate Kelsey Mitchell.
Think about how quickly the conversation has changed.
Three years ago, the question was whether her college game would translate.
Then it was whether she could handle the physicality of the WNBA.
Then whether all the attention surrounding her was bigger than her actual impact on the court.
We have those answers now.
Clark isn’t great because she brings people into arenas.
She isn’t great because millions of people watch her.
And she isn’t great because she can pull up from the logo.
She’s great because she controls games.
The shooting gets the highlights, but the passing, pace, vision and ability to create offense are becoming just as important to who she is as a player.
The celebrity came first.
The superstardom followed.
But now?
The basketball speaks for itself.
🤖 Made with AI
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In the future does the WNBA & media really think people are going to remember AjA & all her MVP awards or are we going to remember Caitlin who busted the door down to bring everything she has brought. The world remembers Princess Diana & Caitlin Clark will be the one we remember.
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Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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3 things the Bible doesn’t say:
1. Follow your heart.
2. Believe in yourself.
3. Do whatever makes you happy.
3 things the Bible does say:
1. Deny yourself.
2. Trust in the Lord.
3. Pursue holiness.
Because we don’t want to watch a bunch angry women that like to beat people up, not get called for it, play selfishly, flop and foul bait like SGA and have a lower hoop IQ. CC makes the game fun to watch because she makes everyone around her better and exciting to watch
Put A’ja Wilson on PRIMETIME with a major network and everyone will tune in just like they do for Caitlin Clark, she’s not doing anything A’ja can’t do 💅
Is what they’ll tell you..
Game 1 of the 2026 WNBA Semifinals between the Valkyries and the Aces drew approximately 500,000 viewers on NBC and Peacock.
For context, the audience was less than a QUARTER of the 2.1 million average viewers (peaking at 2.6 million) that watched the Aces face the FEVER in Game 1 of the FIRST ROUND just a week prior.
If Caitlin Clark’s not involved not many people are watching, why?
