I posted the following on Facebook last night during Game 7 of the NBA Finals:
Watching a WNBA game right now. It’s awesome how these tall ladies hit almost every three-pointer. Huge crowd too. I don’t know why they say WNBA has trouble filling arenas.
I was hoping to conjure the image of a person who almost never watches basketball, flips on the TV, and finds the world’s best players (Indiana v. Oklahoma City) and then, due to all of the hype about the WNBA exhibiting the world’s most skilled players, imagining that it is a WNBA game. About six friends liked it and probably at least half of them are so disconnected from the world of pro sports that they imagined it to be in earnest.
Separately, who has something more interesting to say about the NBA final? Our kids were cruelly denied access to the final quarter due to it extending past their bedtime. I don’t think we missed anything, though, because the spread between the teams at the end of third quarter (the only one that we watched) seemed to be maintained.
Simultaneous to game 7 of the NBA finals, there was a regular season WNBA game between two weak teams (Connecticut and Golden State) that had the same attendance and similar three point percentages. Knowing that your primary entertainment is doing things you don’t enjoy and criticizing them, I assumed you were watching the WNBA game and tried to be critical even though the product and support was little different than the NBA.
What was the supposed joke? The NBA is little better than the WNBA? The WNBA sucks? look, I can make vapid social media posts, too?
The brilliant commercial minds at the WNBA scheduled a game to compete with the NBA final?
The average computer programmer Greenspun commenter has no idea the NBA finals are on, especially if the Celtics (MIT) & Warriors (Berkeley) aren’t involved.