Liberty’s coach covers the WNBA audience milestone driven by Caitlin Clark’s return: ‘I love it’
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New York – He New York freedom He lost his first game of the season against Indiana Fever on Saturday, but in the great scheme of everything, Chief coach Sandy Bondello knows that the value of those clashes goes beyond victories and losses.
The fever gave the WNBA Defensor to the champions of the first defeat of the season Caitlin Clark’s star performance
The current rookie of the year fell 32 points of the season and made seven triples in the 102-88 victory, while Sabrina Ionescu scored 34 points for freedom.
Indiana’s fever guard, Caitlin Clark (22), five and five five years after scoring a triple on Saturday, June 14, 2025, during a match against Freedom in New York in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/Indiestar/USA Today Network through IMAGN images)
ESPN launched the TV classifications for early confrontation, which was the third WNBA game most watched in ABC with an average of 2.2 million viewers.
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The game reached its maximum point in 2.8 million viewers, an increase of 76% with respect to the regular season average last season on the network.
Talk to journalists before Tuesday’s party against Atlanta’s dream, Bondello was asked about the milestone of the audience. While he admitted that it was a game that wanted the Liberty to close, Brondello recognized the importance of reaching a broader audience.
“I love it. That’s what we have been trying to aim since the league started a long time ago,” he said. “It was certainly a good show, and Caitlin made a great performance there.”
The New York Guard Liberty Sabrina Ionescu (20) and the fever guard of Indiana Caitlin Clark (22) in the second half in Gainbridge Fieldhouse on June 14, 2025. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn images)
The basketball legend says that the onslaught of 3 points from Caitlin Clark left her speechless
Saturday’s audience numbers follow a trend that began last season, when the WNBA had its regular season more seen in 24 years and its greatest assistance in 22 years.
Much of that success correlated with Clark’s debut. She established league records for most assists in a season (337) and most assists in a game (19). He also became the first rookie in the history of the League to register two triples elves and established the rookie record of a single season for points and triple facts.
The rapid growth of the League has generated numbers of grades that rival other important sports leagues in North America.
Indiana’s fever guard, Caitlin Clark, applauds his teammates during the first half of a WNBA game against Chicago Sky in United Center on June 7, 2025. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Imagn images)
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The Atlético On Tuesday, the Stanley Cup final between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers reported has had average audience numbers in the United States between 2.3 and 2.6 million for the first four games in the series. According to the report, it marked a 25% decrease last season.
“The more people can see our game, they will fall in love with it because this is the best place in the world,” Bondello added.
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