User:VaeLamp/sandbox

One of the problems with WNBA and reason for low ticket sales and salary would be marketing, if you look at the NBA they market their players differently than they do for the WNBA. In my research top NBA players are told to do certain things to come off ass appealing to the eye of the female viewer and homosexual  (male) viewers, by doing things like showing their body more when they wipe their sweat or how they wear their jerseys in their shorts, this is a form of marketing, people attending basketball games come for entertainment and excitement, in basketball scoring and the pace of the game is what brings these things as well as appearance. In studying the WNBA and the NBA the rules are different in the WNBA they are allowed to get away with a lot of different defensive movements than the NBA does, this makes it difficult for women players to score on their opponents. From statistical point of view WNBA players shoot at a higher percentage than NBA players. Cleaning up the game a bit will cause more points to be scored and bring more excitement to the WNBA. From the appearance stand point you can say the NBA has taken steps in the right direction. Moved away from the baggy jerseys and moved towards a tighter fitting jersey showing more muscles and definition in the body. When the WNBA still had somewhat baggy clothes. If the WNBA would move into the same marketing ideas as the NBA, which is the hierarchy of basketball, this would probably bring a bigger audience. Marketing goes from how the rules are applied to how they are promoted on the TV. Statically WNBA plays are better basketball players than NBA players, the problem comes from everything outside of the play of women. But, our society tries to say that women are not as good as men but this is not the case.