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the quote unquote w NBA pay gap. And by the way, if you've
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the WNBA held their draft. Women's National Basketball Association held their draft on Monday.
Caitlin Clark, who is a phenomenal talent who's changed women's basketball at the
collegiate level, and I think and hope that she will change it on the
professional level as well. As she's been drafted by the local team here where
we are, by the Indiana Fever, and it was released that her contract
was something like seventy six thousand dollars a year. This, of course gets
the predictable gasp response from the feminists, the leftists, the liberals, thinking
that this is an example, a clear example of the gender pay gap in
professional basketball. Now, there is a pay gap between the genders, but
it's not a pay gap because of her gender. It's a pay gap because
of the success of the two businesses. The NBA, i mentioned in the
previous episode, generates ten billion dollars with the B in annual revenue. The
WNBA generates sixty million dollars with an M in annual revenue, and it's still
losing between ten and twelve million dollars a year. Now, that's not all
bad. Well, losing money is not good, but it's part of building
a brand, building a business. If the NBA had a massive head start
on the WNBA, as far as you know, it's had longer to longer
of time to exist. But the NBA has gone through its struggles as well.
That's kind of where we left off the last time we talked about this.
But the WNBA is losing ten to twelve million dollars a year. NBA
subsidizes it to some extent. It's not clear to me how much or what
that looks like, specifically because they've recently gotten investors seventy five million dollars from
investors in the WNBA, So that's good. They're heading in the right direction.
And so I went through and explained where the NBA was in the nineteen
eighties, which was a bad financial position. There weren't a lot of players
that were connecting with the audience. There were some, I mean, Doctor
j of course was there. We had Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but nothing like
what they were about to embark upon with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and then
later the Detroit Pistons, the bad Is Michael Jordan. Those rivalries that these
teams had, these players had with one another, the fights, the Lakers,
Celtics games, the dream team of the nineteen nineties. I mean,
it became a phenomenon that didn't just stay within the United States borders, but
expanded around the world, around the globe especially in nineteen ninety two with the
Dream Team that had some of the best players that have ever played the game
of basketball, players like Magic Johnson, players like Larry Bird, Charles Barkley,
David Robinson, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan. Of course who else was
on that team. I think Mullen, Chris Mullen was on that team.
You get the idea, some tremendous basketball players. They built the brand.
John Stockton was on that team. They built the blank the brand. They
grew the show or excuse me, the league, and they experienced massive success
from that point in time. And I pointed out some of the ways that
they did it. They did it through competition, they did it through rivalry,
they did it through an intensity. These players were not taking off the
idea, the idea that Larry Bird or whoever Michael Jordan would have taken games
off to rest in nineteen eighty nine or whatever is. They would never have
considered that. In fact, Larry Bird's career was shortened due to a back
injury, an injury that was either first initiated or made worse because he was
working on his family's driveway in French Lick, Indiana, back in the I
don't know when that was. I want to say the eighties. He was
you know, porn concrete and all that, and he hurt his back and
it either aggravated it or it may have been the initial cause of the injury.
These guys don't do that today, and I'm not saying they should.
I'm not trying to do that. I'm just saying it was a dramatically different
world and the players. Back in nineteen eighty the average salary was one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. As they were heading into the nineties, that salary
increased about five times to around nine hundred thousand dollars. And then today,
the average NBA salary today is added around ten million dollars, with the league
minimum being one million dollars. So how did we in the past thirty or
so years have the average NBA salary increased ten times? Well, it's because
of the success of the NBA. Now, you may not like it.
I'm not here to defend it. I'm just here to say that they've had
unprecedented success in growing the league, especially when you factor when you factor in
the worldwide phenomenon right China. Some of these plays I mean, Kobe Bryant
was adored in lots of places, including China. Remember Yao Ming from China.
He played in the NBA. He had a very talented guy, big
guy, seven foot six. He had a shortened career because of injury.
But this increased interest or in the NBA around the world, and it's truly
a global phenomenon and that can again be traced back to the Dream Team,
the Dream Team when they played in the Olympics in nineteen ninety two. If
you've never watched the documentary on the Dream Team, I encourage you to do
that. They were signing autographs. They were signing autographs of other players,
for other players that they were playing against as they were, you know,
before the game, after the game sort of thing. People just wanted to
be, you know, shake their hands, have their pictures taken with these
guys. They were getting their autographs. They were beaten people by thirty forty
points. It was. It created a tremendous amount of buzz for the talent
level of the players that were in the NBA back in those days. And
now we've even expanded it further with international players, players like Luka Donciz and
Nikola Jokic and Giannis and Tenda Kupo, They're all over the NBA, these
these European or these foreign born players not from Europe but from Australia. The
Pacers have a player from Cameroon, Joel Embiid Cameroon. I mean worldwide phenomenon.
And you got to think about this, how do we get not only
fans in these places, but how do we get to the point how do
we get to the point where players are able to develop skills, because that
means not only is there a fan base, but there's the ability to teach
the game of basketball, not just in Europe, not just in Africa,
not just in Australia, but around the entire world. Now there's different,
a different brand of basketball. The European or the international style of basketball is
phenomenal because it teaches teaches fundamentally sound basketball. It teaches teaches things that translate
onto the court into beautiful basketball ball movement, great passing, spacing, great
shooting, all this sort of stuff. Anyway, so that can all be
traced back in this timeline of growth. The point is the WNBA has not
had much of any of that. Now, whatever degree that they've had in
that has largely been attributed to their association or connection with the NBA. So
but they've not had a chance to really go through what the NBA went through.
The WNBA hasn't what the NBA went through in the nineteen eighties and nineteen
nineties. That's where they are today. And so Caitlin Clark, as phenomenal
as she has been and as revolutionizing as she can potentially be to the WNBA,
it's not materialized yet. It's just like when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson
were drafted back in what was that nineteen seventy nine, I guess right when
they were drafted, that's where she is today. And when they were drafted
in nineteen eighty, the average salary was one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Some of these players were doing as well, like pouring concrete driveways or whatever
for their parents as Larry Bird was doing. It was a different, different
world. And that's what the NBA is today. WNBA is today. Excuse
me. Not only that the WNBA has fewer teams, they have twelve teams
versus the NBA's thirty teams, they have fewer fans, they have fewer games,
they have smaller TV contracts. Again, total revenue for the WNBA sixty
million. Total revenue for the NBA is ten billion, with the B so
dramatically different world. Now, I want to tell you some personal things about
about me. I mean, I've got I've got some well I've got i
got a daughter who who plays basketball. I've got we've got three kids.
I'm going to tell you a little bit about the connection here. This is
not a personal thing for me, but I it is personally. It personally
interests me. I hope the WNBA makes it. I hope they put a
better product out there than they have in recent years. I hope that they
quit trying to say for those that say this, and it's not necessarily the
players, but Britney Griner said that she could beat DeMarcus Cousins in a one
on one game of basketball, that's absolutely asinine. I don't know that she
would get a shot off, to be quite honest, she would be obliterated.
That does not mean that does not mean that the WNBA cannot put a
good quality product out there that people want to watch. Quit trying to be
the NBA specifically. The game is different there's post players in the NBA.
Excuse me, the WNBA really doesn't happen in the NBA anymore because how the
game has changed. There be who you are. Just look at this as
a great opportunity and capitalize on it. Deliver a good product, Let the
players develop rivalries, let them compete, and let's see what happens here.
Don't moan about the fact that you're not the NBA yet. You're not and
you probably never will be. But that doesn't mean you still can't have great
levels of success. So more to say about this. But before I do
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get back to the conversation here with the about the WNBA I mentioned. I
have a daughter. We have two daughters. Well, we have three kids.
Son, daughter, daughter, fourteen year old son, twelve year old
daughter, ten year old daughter. Son is he plays, He plays Soccer's
a powerhouse. He's kicks the ball so hard. I mean, it's I
don't want to be anywhere near it. It's like a missile. It's like
a missile coming at you, a missile that the Biden administration gave the green
light from Iran to fire into Israel allegedly. It's like that. He's into
aviation. He wants to be a pilot. He's on a simulator all the
time. Smart kid, you know, and good at soccer, but didn't
play basketball. I want to get into this in a moment. My oldest
daughter, our oldest daughter, she's twelve. She plays soccer, athletic.
She played basketball in the past. My son did too, but neither one
of them want to continue. She plays soccer as well, but she also
has crochet business. She has a serious crochet business. I'm not even kidding
about this. She kind of taught herself to crochet, I don't know,
a year or so ago, something like that. And I mean she's got
too she's made by hand custom two hundred and fifteen, I think, is
what she told me. I just asked her this morning, how many items
do you have? Evy two hundred and fifteen handmade items that she is,
you know, looking forward to selling it at Kraft around the area. She
loves doing this, by the way, very very talented. I'm blown away
by what she can do. If you're interested, if it's your thing,
if you're on Instagram, she's got a page called yarn Buddies by Evie.
Yarn Buddies by Evie. That's our daughter. But she's not into basketball.
She is. She's into that. She's into starting that business and running it
and making her her yarn buddies, as she says. But our youngest daughter,
she is a basketball player. She she has played soccer too, But
basketball, I think I think it's her sport, and she loves it.
She practices all the time, she thinks about it, she watches it,
she tries to learn the moves. I mean, she's she's pretty good,
and so I mean I care about the success of women's sports. I care.
I'm not saying I would never put any pressure on her if she even
wants to do it, if she wants to play at Cotton College or whatever,
then you know, I'll support her and try to, you know,
encourage her and help her to do that however I can. If she doesn't,
that's fine too. But I can certainly see where she's going to be
the one who's going to, at least most likely from our kids, be
involved in these things. And that's a good thing. And I want the
sports to succeed, and I would want if she was ever good enough or
whatever to be a professional player. I would like her to be able to
make as much money as she can. But we can't just wish something into
existence. These things have to materialize over time. It takes time to build
this. It takes time to build this, and you have to have the
right players. You have to you have to have the right ingredients, and
I think the WNBA has that right now. So I'm not against the success.
But what I am against is about pushing a narrative that has no basis
in reality. Caitlin Clark is not getting paid less because she's a woman.
That is patently ridiculous and absurd. It's demonstrated in so many ways I've gone
through in the past what one and a half episodes. Now, this is
not a legitimate criticism. And then of course people want to extrapolate that and
then apply that to everything else. And I know that it's well, I'm
going to say something, I'll probably tick somebody off, but hey, what
else is new? I know for some people it's you know, if we're
having difficulty or struggling, it's just easier to blame something, to blame the
gender pay gap, or to blame whatever it is instead of looking in the
mirror and saying, Okay, what are my skills? How am I using
those? Am I am I working my hardest? Have I sacrificed enough time?
It takes time. It just takes time. I've been doing this.
I've been doing this for almost nine years. It's amazing to me. I've
had people say, man, that's that's quick. You've you've you've had some
quick success. No, it might appear quick if you just heard about the
program last week, and you know your your historical frame of reference for our
program is a week. You think, man, that's pretty good. But
it's not been a week. It's been nine years, and in fact,
the dream can be traced back to the late nineties. So for me,
there's a lot of growth that happens below the surface, even when no one
even knows you're doing it. Our daughter's out here shooting and practicing, not
just I mean not just screwing around, like doing drills and stuff. Now,
the point is that's that's just part of the process. It's part of
the process for an individual player, but it's also the part of the process
for the league, for the brand it has to develop. It has to
be given time, and if I'm not succeeding, if I'm not personally succeeding
here, if you're not succeeding in what you're doing, we have to ask
the questions, what am I doing wrong? Have I have I Do I
not have the talent? Do I need to get better at something? Have
I not given myself enough time? These are all legitimate questions. Instead it
as saying, well, people hate me. Are the world's all a bunch
of sexists, or the world's all a bunch of haters of this group or
that group or anything else. We have to look in the mirror and say,
Okay, here's where we are, Here's where we want to get.
How do I do that? Right? That's the that's the adult way of
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my friends. When we get back, I'm going to continue this discussion,
maybe share a couple of little stories here. But there's so many teachable
moments about this WNBA contract of Caitlin Clark gender pay gap. It's right there
again. It's a catalyst, it's an open door. It's an opportunity to
have conversations with those that maybe normally have no interest in these things, but
it is an opportunity to share and to use this as a bridge to hopefully
getting people to hear and receive truth. But I've got to take a break
my friend. Sit tight back in just a minute, come back to my
friends. There is no gender pay gap in the w NBA. There is
a pay gap between well, there's no gender pay gap in the way that
they mean that, which is, hey, you're a woman. Let me
go to the the salary list of what we pay women and you open it
up and then you pay them that. No, no, no, no,
that's not it at all. The gender pay gap that exists, and
so far as it does exist, is that the WNBA has not had the
success of the NBA. Therefore they have less money to pay and therefore people
get paid less by the WNBA. It's not complicated at all. It may
be a hard pill to swallow for some people. I don't understand that.
I just I mean, I guess I do in a way because it's it's
as though there's they feel like they're saying that the women are inferior to men.
No, it's they've not had the success with the WNBA that they've had
in the NBA. The players aren't as strong, they're not as talented,
they're not as overall good. There are things that I think the women may
do better, but they're not better than the men. In fact, I
remember you remember Serena Williams. Tennis players or were in a different sport now,
but tennis. You know, tennis you're separated by net, so there's
no physical, you know contact, You're hitting the ball back and forth to
one another with the tennis racket over the net. And she made the comment
that she if she played Andy Murray, who at the time, I don't
know. I don't know if he was ever number one. He was very
highly ranked. He might have been number one for some time. She said,
if I played Andy Murray, he would beat me six six loves six
loves six zero six zero. Women play two sets in a match, or
well, they pay played best of three. Men play best of five.
So she was just even saying, you know, by the way women's rules,
she would lose six zero, six zero. And she said I would
lose in just a couple of minutes. She said, I can't. And
Serena was a strong, talented tennis player, dominant in female tennis. She
said, it's a different game. They hit the ball harder, you know,
they're they're longer. It's harder to get my shot past them. All
that kind of stuff. What's so hard about admitting that I just those guys
are better at tennis than me. The NBA players are better at basketball.
To me, I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop the most. The person
that sat on the bench the longest, the person a person who played in
the NBA five years ago, if he wanted to play me one on one,
I don't think I could get a shot off. I don't. Maybe
if I just threw it over my head and he wasn't, I don't know.
I don't know that I get a shot off. That's not some sort
of an insult to myself, perhaps as an insult to my game, But
I don't. I don't have a game anymore. I don't have a game.
We did win, and that's a story I was going to tell you
really quickly. Here nineteen ninety six, our team we won the sectional championship
at my school. This was back Indiana was single class basketball, so no
matter the size of your school you played for, there was one champion.
So the biggest schools played the smallest schools. In fact, there's a school
my class. We had ninety nine kids in my class. There's a school
that was just the next school district to the west of US called Eminence High
School. Look them up. I don't know how many kids they had in
the class, but I know that their senior pictures, their whole class senior
pictures are on the wall in the high school, and it looks about like
the same number of kids I would have had in a classroom. Say,
I don't know, twenty five, thirty five, maybe forty. I'm guessing
kids in the class. And that was Eminence. But they were expected to
play the team that had, you know, thousands of kids in a class
at in high school. That's what we did back then. Now we don't
have that. We have class basketball, but we had single class one class
back then. It was in fact, I think it was the last year
for it. Nineteen ninety six, our team had not won our sectional where
we were a small school, we had not won in fifty four years,
but we won it that year, my senior year. I got to be
honest, I didn't even know what happened. I knew we played, I
knew there was another round, but I didn't know what happened. I didn't
know where the game was we ended up playing. We played that game at
Indiana State University. The court that Larry Bird Built in Terre Hate, Indiana,
and it was packed. There was so much talent on the basketball court
that day, not for me, but from the There were players that you
know, played at multiple colleges, the Graves, White River Valley, they
were in that regional. We played Terre Hate North, We got beat Terrehote
North ended up going to the Elite eight or maybe the final four. Anyway,
it was a tremendous experience for us. Awesome, awesome ex experience.
Tons of people at that game, but I remember when we won the section.
All the game before that. You may have heard you've heard one of
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Frigie was a little bit of a talker, maybe even a lot of a
talker. Trash talker not afraid to jack it up. He was our sixth
man, and he he came in locked and loaded, ready to fire that
basketball up, run his mouth a little bit, all in good fun,
I mean, nothing bad. But when we won the sectional, I remember
this. We had our sectional trophy. See, we weren't supposed to win
that game because we played another school. It was Moresville was the name of
the school, which is in the same county as US, the next school
district to our east, and we weren't supposed to win. In fact,
the radio broadcast the night before had the two bigger schools in the quarter or
the semi finals of the chance of the sectional, and the people on the
radio said that that was I think the coach even said for Morsil that was
the championship game. Turns out it wasn't, and there was another game to
be played, and we won, and Freji wanted to take wanted to take
the bus into Mooresville, which was not far from where we were. Take
the bus into Morswill after winning take the sectional championship trophy to the Taco Bell
in Mooresville. Coach agreed with this. I was not on board with this,
but I was on the bus and I was gonna eat some Taco Bell.
It was probably eleven eleven thirty at night, I don't know, heck,
maybe midnight at that point, but we stroll in there in the bus,
get out at Taco Bell. I believe Friji carries the trophy in anyway,
Basketball is a sport. I love it. It's got a lot of
connections with with me. My daughter plays, my wife played coach today,
my dad coached me. I love it right, and I want there to
be success in women's basketball. But I also know that that doesn't happen just
by snapping your fingers and wishing. And it also doesn't come from trying to
pretend something is the truth when it isn't. And so what's going to make
women's basketball better is the competition, the rivalries the players like the Caitlin Clarks,
and maybe one day she can be the catalyst like Magic and Bird were
in the nineteen eighties to the NBA and make it a massively successive league.
But just like Magic and Bird did not benefit from the contracts that these guys
have today, Caitlin Clark isn't going to benefit if they have the same level
of success as the NBA did. Proportionally, she's not going to benefit the
same way that the future players are going to benefit, which leads to the
next question. The next thing that I find interesting this discussion, this incessant
discussion about who's the greatest player at this on Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant,
Wilk Chamberlain, Oscar robertson whatever. Your list of players at my starting five,
here they are, and people list them out, and it's fun to
engage in those discussions. I get all of that. But my friends,
the truth is, the truth is when you have a league that's successful,
then the next generation are the beneficiaries of that. So for example, I'm
always amazed we had that eclipse go over here last week. If you haven't
seen that, I mean I talked about that on the program. Absolutely once
in a lifetime, beautiful, mesmerizing event. Those few minutes of totality are
words fail me as to just how surreal and beautiful and just captivating that was.
Well, I'm always amazed at you know, today, we all benefit
from the knowledge of what NASA or scientists that we've built upon for generations.
But I think how diligent were the dudes that figured this out to begin with.
How smart were the people who looked up and said, no, no,
no, that's not a star, that's a planet, and that planet
is following in orbit. It's orbiting. It's orbiting the Sun. We're not
the son's not moving. We're moving and the son's not even really we're on
an elliptical orbit. So there's not it's not just that we're orbiting the Sun.
There's another. If you know anything about math, you know that there's
two points that things orbit around in the in the shape of an ellipse.
There's something else that's at the other end of that of that orbit, which
is a whole nother discussion for a whole other day. But the people that
figure that stuff out, we benefit from that. So we start based upon
their knowledge. So the players of the nineties started with the knowledge of what
they learned from watching magic. Johnson and Larry Bird did do magic. Johnson
and Larry Bird watched the players before them, you know, Jerry West,
Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, whoever these you know, Bob Coosey, I
don't know, but they they watched and they learned and they built upon that,
and that's where we are today. If Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and
Michael Jordan were growing up in today's world in basketball, their skill level,
they would be taught the same things that the current group of players are taught
that this generation is being taught. And they would have been, you know,
given a strength and training regimen that would have been they would have been
faster and better jumping and all this kind of stuff, better shooting, all
these sorts of things. They would have benefited tremendously. So we can't look
at these things. It's hard to comprehend the total improvement, the total impact
that a certain player, our a certain mind has on an industry, a
development of a society, development of a league. But you don't benefit.
The people that benefit financially are the ones that come down the road. I
gotta take a break, quick time out my friends back in just a minute.
You know, my friends. I remember when Rush Limbaugh used to say
he would get messages from the stick to the issue's crowd. They didn't like
it when Rush would talk about golf or something else, anything that wasn't pertaining
to the issues of the day. And I get it, I do get
it. Some of you might be thinking that we've spoken a little bit too
much about basketball in the past couple of episodes here where we've talked about this.
But I think and I can respect and understand you know where you're coming
from. But I think that that's I think that this is one of the
biggest opportunities and teachable moments that exist that can connect with the pop culture,
that can connect with people who don't normally have an interest in politics, and
so I think it's a tremendous opportunity. That's why we've spoken about it so
much. That's why I think there's so many things that this example of something
that's happening right before our eyes that people are talking about, arguing about,
debating. There's so many things that we can use as potential just potential lessons,
just overall teachable teachable moments. Because it's an open invitation to talk about
the gender pay gap or the perceived gender pay gap. It's an opportunity to
talk about how business works. It's an opportunity to talk about entrepreneurism and how
it's different to run a small business than it is to run a big business.
You know, entrepreneurs and CEOs were not the same thing. I mean
an entrepreneur, someone who starts something to pursue a dream, a passion.
Just maybe they started in their bedroom closet in twenty fifteen, started a podcast,
not knowing where it would end up, right, not knowing where it
would end up, not knowing if it would be picked up as a popular,
you know, radio show, any of that thing. Much like we
did here, there's no guarantees. We don't see the end of the story.
In fact, when you're reading some of these stories in the Bible,
if you read the Bible, you read some of these stories and you think,
oh, well, why didn't he just do this or why didn't she
do that? Because they didn't know the end of the story. My friends,
entrepreneurs don't know the end of the story. And I don't want to
say the WNBA is entrepreneurial, but it's it's kind of a pseudo thing,
right. It's under the brand of the NBA. The NBA, the Big
Brother kind of carried it along, protected it, financed it, all that
sort of stuff. But it was something new and there's something still entrepreneurial about
it. And CEOs of you know, corporate America, they deal with different
things than I have to deal with too. I'm not minimizing their job by
any stretch of the imagination. I certainly I couldn't do it. I'm not
wired for that. I'm not wired to have to deal with HR and compliance
and maybe a little bit too much like Michael Scott in that way, or
DEI or any of these things. So the WNBA is not the NBA,
but there's no guarantees. There were no guarantees for either. There were no
guarantees for the NBA in the nineteen eighties when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird stepped
onto the scene, and there were no guarantees for the WNBA when they started,
or even when today Caitlin Clark steps on the scene. We're talking about
people who have to take a risk to grow it into something they don't know.
You know, we have the hindsight. Now hindsight's twenty twenty. As
they say, the NBA, we can look back and say, oh,
yeah, well, now I can see why that helped or that didn't help.
But at the time, you don't know. You don't know how the
story's written or how the end is written of the story. You're living it
every day. It's exciting, it's what we do here, but it's also
very uncertain and just like Burden, Magic kind of took a risk. I
mean, they were getting paid, but they they took a risk to be
involved with something and to build something that is much different. They became something
much bigger and greater than it was when they when they started. And today
I don't want to make too big of a fuss about this, but you
know these NBA players today, it's a different world. They didn't have to
build it. In fact, today I would say that at least some of
these NBA players, if not more, have become prima donnas because they didn't
know what it took to build it. Reminds me of Obama telling Joe the
Plumber back in two thousand an eight. Remember Joe the Plumber, He told
him, you didn't build that. When talking to Joe the Plumber about Joe
the Plumber's plumbing business, he said, no, you didn't build it.
What happened was we built the roads that came in there. That's why you
have a business. But people like Obama, people like those that live in
corporate America that talk about golden parachutes, not to be confused with golden showers,
but golden parachutes, These retirement packages, stock packages of multiple millions of
dollars, have no idea the risk, the uncertainty, the turmoil, the
heartache that comes from being an entrepreneur. And entrepreneurs put it on the line
each and every day, each and every day. And that's really what Caitlin
Clark is stepping into it. It's got a foundation. I don't want to
overstate it, but there's something there that she's stepping into that just requires her
to have to put it on the line. It's going to depend upon her
and these other players and their involvement and their ability to grow this. And
I like the fiery nature of Caitlin Clark, and I think she's got the
capacity to do this. I hope she succeeds. I'm not in you a
fan of the NBA or wall Excuse me, I'm not a fan of the
WNBA in particular, but I've never been closer to being a fan of the
WNBA, and Caitlin Clark is a huge reason for that. She's gonna be
coming here to the Fever. I hope she succeeds. She's got this fiery
nature, she's got this ability to have rivalries, and she makes it interesting,
and she's competitive so much. Show that, so much, showed that
her dad mouth the words shut up to her from the stands at the w
NBA game or excuse me the NCAA game. And there's a part of me
that loves that part of me that translates to Trump as well. But I
don't have time to get into that. But anyway, my friends, I
gotta go SDG.