Sunday’s WNBA playoff game between the New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces was the most-watched semifinal round game the league has seen in 22 years.
The game drew an average of 929,000 viewers, up 60% from the semifinals last year.
The numbers of the rematch of last year’s WNBA Finals got the attention of Jemele Hill, who seemed to try to make a point about Caitlin Clark.
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Jemele Hill and Caitlin Clark (Getty Images/IMAGN)
“And yet I keep seeing irresponsible headlines claiming the WNBA playoffs are down because of no Caitlin Clark,” Hill wrote on X.
Despite historic numbers for the WNBA, it can be argued ratings would have been much higher had Clark been playing.
After Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers for her first playoff game against the Connecticut Sun Sept. 22 while competing with an NFL Sunday, she followed it up with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for Game 2. Clark and the Indiana Fever lost both…