Average WNBA Attendance Hits Record Low; Playoffs Also Thin
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WNBA Averages Record Low
Attendance Of 7,480 This Season
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The WNBA has seen a “steady decline” since posting a record average attendance of 10,864 during its second season in ’98, and the league-wide average “hit an all-time low this season” at 7,480, according to Natalie England of the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS. Slightly more than 6,000 fans attended Storm-Sparks Western Conference Semifinals Game Three on August 22. The “level of talent in today’s game –-see Lauren Jackson, Diana Taurasi and Tamika Catchings –- is far superior to what the league boasted in its early days when only a couple of players dominated.” But England writes, “The pace of a typical WNBA game goes like this: shot-miss-rebound-turnover-miss-rebound-foul-free throws. Furthering the boredom is that most teams still average in the 70s, although the switch to the 24-second shot clock this season did quicken the pace somewhat” (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 8/28).
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