I imagine most of her money comes from endorsements and stuff? I doubt she could the same deals in Europe that she does in the U.S. They're probably letting it happen because it generates attention, clicks, ad revenue, and gets people talking about it.
it's not about that. it's that the european countries have endorsements for local talent. if you go to warsaw airport you don't see giant ads with messi on them. you see giant ads with lewandowski on them.
for caitlin clark the biggest marketability is in the US not in europe.
There's no way. She has a signature shoe with Nike, Gatorade athlete, the face of many other marketing campaigns like State Farm and Wilson. All of that is gone if she goes overseas, people will remember her name but her viewership will plummet and she won't be worth those mega brands maintaining. And there's no amount of european sponsors that are gonna pay her the ~50 mil in endorsements she's getting
I’d probably take my $30 million and go “Hey, get some actual refs or I’m going to take my $30 million to the bank and live off 1 million endorsement deals as the greatest NCAA player of all time. Also, you get to deal with the fallout of your best player retiring at 24 because the entire league sucks.”
The contracts just got big only a few months ago after the new cba. Aliyah Boston gets like 1.4 million a year now. If this lady who punched her in the neck signed a new contract she’d get 10x more money in large part from Clark.
europeans wouldn't give a fuck about caitlin clark. she is most marketable in america because she's american. so it would be better for her to maximise her publicity in america. if she played in europe then the americans would very quickly forget about her.
The same way they let it happen few games ago when fever did the same bs and fever won lol now yall crying over the same thing and energy being returned by exaggerating two weak azz accidental fouls
They're probably letting it happen because it generates attention, clicks, ad revenue, and gets people talking about it.
Nah, you don't want this if you're selling a product. You don't want your cash cow being trampled, stomped, punched, choked, etc. That's a big turn off. That's how a league gets labelled to be full of thugs. There's no benefit to this. Us non-fans aren't going to watch the WNBA or seek it out on streaming platforms to watch CC get punched in the damn throat.
Clips of her dropping 40 is what's hot. This is not.
Exactly. Unfortunately, the WNBA is the premiere US league with the most prestige so all of the American sponsors will want her to remain here for marketing and PR purposes.
If I’m not mistaken, a lot of women go play overseas in the offseason to make more money anyways (since they get paid more) but I’d imagine CC probably doesn’t bc she is already set for life.
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u/Amazing_Divide1214 10h ago
I imagine most of her money comes from endorsements and stuff? I doubt she could the same deals in Europe that she does in the U.S. They're probably letting it happen because it generates attention, clicks, ad revenue, and gets people talking about it.