ESPN added Caitlin Clark vs Angel Reese to its national TV coverage by including the Fever-Sky game on June 1 to its list.
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have been resetting records in college basketball over the past two years. When Clark’s Iowa battled Reese’s LSU in the 2023 NCAA women’s championship, the game hit an eye-opening 9.9 million views. A year later, they had their rematch in the Elite Eight and didn;t disappoint, reaching 12.3 million views.
Two weeks after their final square-off in college, Clark and Reese joined the 2024 WNBA Draft and, unsurprisingly, TV ratings increased. Fans tuned in to see which team they and their fellow draft eligibles would play for. The event drew 2.45 million views, easily the most-watched draft in the history of the league.
Despite all the hoopla and the unquestioned popularity of the two, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese didn’t have a nationally televised game in the WNBA. Realizing the error, ESPN rectified that and made the June 1 match between Clark’s Indiana Fever and Reese’s Chicago Sky the headliner.
The news was promptly greeted with reactions:
“Gonna be off the charts definitely gonna break some records.”
One fan couldn’t resist taking a dig at Clark:
“Hopefully, Caitlin stops shooting tour dates by then”
Another fan guaranteed what will happen:
Another fan guaranteed what will happen:
“We gonna see another record for the WNBA”
History might happen if the WNBA could do this right, according to @VisitAtlas
“If the WNBA can Bird-Magic this, they got something”
The Fever and the Sky opened their 2024 campaigns with losses. Indiana was blown off the court 92-71 by the Connecticut Suns, who trolled Clark’s fans with the audacious “Bandwagon Cam.” Chicago gamely put up a fight before succumbing to the Wings behind Arike Ogunbowale’s fourth-quarter explosion.
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese’s respective debuts were full of hype and expectation. Clark, who was on national TV, was the star that pushed over two million views on ESPN. Reese didn’t have the same coverage, but former and current NBA players and a handful from the entertainment world came to see her.
Fans comparing Caitlin Clark’s story with Angel Reese to that of legendary Larry Bird-Magic Johnson rivalry
In the late ‘70s, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were at the center of collegiate basketball’s biggest rivalry.
Their NCAA championship showdown in 1979 remains the most-watched title game in the men’s tournament. The two icons carried that animosity to the NBA, where they helped usher in a new era in basketball.
Bird and Johnson were the main characters of the ‘80s NBA. Most would say that they saved the league from going out. They were the foundation that allowed Michael Jordan to have a platform to make the league what it’s now.
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese could be on that same trajectory. They will have to perform well to sustain their budding rivalry, but if they keep it up, they could elevate the WNBA to never-before-seen heights.
Regardless of the outcome on June 1 between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky, women’s basketball, particularly the WNBA, will emerge as the winner. Clark and Reese are giving the league a boost the way Bird and Magic once did for the NBA in the ‘80s.
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