Joe Tsai

Because a basketball, any professional team is both a business and also it's an institution.

You need to keep the fan base happy.

So there's sort of this church and state element.

It's almost like running a news organization.

caitlyn clark definitely had an effect on uh the wnba all the metrics went up so this was last season right when she first came into the league from college and uh we've seen all of our metrics from viewership ticket sales sponsorship everything went up on like almost 4x

4X.

4X, right.

I mean, that's incredible.

That's incredible.

So the economic impact that she's made to the league is extraordinary.

Undeniable.

Undeniable.

But because of who she is, you know, she's a little bit of a different kind of...

You know, she's a point guard, she's a smaller player.

The knock on her was, was she gonna be able to withstand the physicality of the league?

And she's proven that she's able to do that.

Unfortunately, there's been, I think it's always good to have rivalries, right?

You know, she has this rivalry with Angel Reese that dated back to college.

But some people would like to pit it as a kind of a racial thing or is it this or that?

I think we need to look past that and just look at the skill set that's being brought into the league.