Cathy Engelbert, commissioner of the WNBA and former Deloitte CEO, joins CNBC's 'Power Lunch' to discuss the WNBA's booming popularity, Caitlin Clark, and more.
I like how everything that she said makes business sense instead of just virtue signaling and talking about equity. They need to have a pro-business mindset to grow the league and to make the players more money.
but its been the same people in charge for years and has stayed the same - it needs a new commissioner to start with - and if the players want more money you need to get the supporters to want to watch and NOT alienate them against you like they have in the past, and to think not what I can do for myself - but what can I do for my team and league, where the league will grow along with pay,
@@kennethsmith6367 ohh she has a target on her back, lots of old WNBA players hate on her , im quite sure she will get a few "low-blow" under the games....
@@kennethsmith6367 lol :D league will not or will even ask them to do so controversary and media covarage comes with it , imagine how many twitter post and youtube video , podcast will talk about these moves... how many TV broadcast and shows will talk about it daily... the league will love it and not going to stop it
@@fullfradi95 The TV ratings for the entire season are far more important than a day or two of trending on social media. The NFL or NBA can handle a star being injured over a obvious intentional foul. The WNBA would be irrevocably damaged from such a scandalous situation, especially considering that they are renegotiating their TV rights deal at the end of the season.🤷🏾♂️
Caitlin Clark taught Dawn Staley, the head coach of the South Carolina how to play basketball and coach! That is the only way South Carolina beat Iowa!
The key is to make all the stars household names by using Caitlin. This is the first time I heard about Caitlin getting stock options. Very interesting.
Come on now, don’t disrespect these legends because they laid the foundation for CC. Of course CC took NCAA women’s basketball to another level and there is no doubt about She is going to take the wnba along with other draft players to new heights.
It’s a totally different environment that we are in; NIL, social media, media rights etc. A lot of these new stars had a big following on RU-vid, TikTok and instagram. That continues to follow them. So much more visibility.
@@kennethsmith6367 well she has do such an outstanding job so far "NOT" and would still be in the same boat if Clark had not come along with her asking the NBA for another hand out at the end of the season. anyone in her shoes could grow the WNBA with Clark leading the way -
@@user-tr2sv8mb5w She’s done a decent job. She only been on the job for 4 years and has overseen pretty decent growth. She was the CEO of a pretty nice sized company (Deloitte)prior to taking this job.
Caitlin Clark is a superstar! Many of us only watch games, the draft, etc. because of her! Great role model to youngsters. Even some adults could learn from her…here that Taurasi and Swoopes?!!!
Never watch WNBA in my life I’m from Las Vegas don’t know that we are the champion and Martin with us, Caitlin Clark fun to watch sure I will be watching Indianna and Las Vegas team.
I think it's easy to predict another record next to Clark's name. At the moment WNBA tv viewership rating record is a bit bellow 1 million That's probably gonna be easily broken on the first Indiana Fever game this season.
Cathy's focus should be to cultivate youth/provide more opportunities for youth to embrace skills/create culture wherein all gain values that translate to the real world.
The Commish is right: Show up! If you’re whining about salaries, please show us how many games you’ve gone to in the last 20 years. If you want better salaries going forward, please go to the games starting now!
I also think that expansion of the league would help with growth of their product of basketball. If you spread out the wealth of great players, it would make the league more balance and give a chance for a few more good to excellent players to make it big. That too would provide more rivalries, excitement, gross revenue and in the end raise rookies on up more revenue sharing chances.
It’s hard to have a serious conversation when NBA mascots get paid 5 times more than Caitlin Clark and her colleagues. CC will start at 76K a year, topping out at 97K in year 4. While one NBA mascot makes 650K per year. Yes the mascot in the costume. Sad.
Caitlin is gonna be the first underpaid WNBA player because she is the only one who can sell out an arena. Anyways, the NBA mascot doesnt have a 25 million Nike deal. She is getting paid more money than she ever thought possible. This is just other women trying to use her to make themselves look more valuable.
People talk about the incredible amount of endorsements that Caitlin Clark has. My question is: for the typical WNBA team carrying 12 players, how many of them have endorsements? If someone were to ask me what’s my biggest takeaway on women’s basketball since I jumped on the bandwagon a couple of months ago, I’d say it’s the appallingly low salaries in the WNBA. Let’s hope that Caitlin can help rectify that.
Dumb question... why don't women BB players make as much $ as men... NO SEASON TICKET SALES = NO MONEY! Now they will make more money due to the Caitlin Clark Effect.
The WNBA commissioner needs to promote multiple Star Players.. not just Caitlin Clark, Caitlin Clark, Caitlin Clark, Caitlin Clark... All day long.. who cares if that's all the media wants to talk about.. YOU PROMOTE ALL YOUR STAR PKAYERS.. NOT JUST ONE..
But she was talking about other players…she mentioned Angel, Cardozo, Sabrina and Even Diana…so it’s not her fault as well that the media doesn’t take her que and follow on her lead and ask her more about those players she just mentioned. But I do know that Angel is getting mentioned a lot as well not just Caitlin. It’s very much those two that is pushing the ratings for the game and will continue to do so.
You have to get the media rights valued properly? No lady you have to put butts in those seats whole season. To do that you have to have a good product. You dont. You have a charity case.
