Cathy Engelbert
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This year, we're playing our first ever regular season game outside the U.S. in Vancouver. I know that might not sound like a big deal, but this is a regular season game that the Atlanta Dream will actually host the Seattle Storm up in Vancouver. And we've seen huge success selling out in Edmonton and Toronto on preseason games. So the sky's the limit globally.
We just want to make sure we have the right global footprint first. Nike just took Sabrina Ionescu over to Asia. She went to China and Hong Kong and I think the Philippines. And so, you know, that kind of you remember, Bill, what happened with the NBA when they brought Kobe there and Stefan Marbury and built huge businesses and huge followership in Asia.
We just want to make sure we have the right global footprint first. Nike just took Sabrina Ionescu over to Asia. She went to China and Hong Kong and I think the Philippines. And so, you know, that kind of you remember, Bill, what happened with the NBA when they brought Kobe there and Stefan Marbury and built huge businesses and huge followership in Asia.
We just want to make sure we have the right global footprint first. Nike just took Sabrina Ionescu over to Asia. She went to China and Hong Kong and I think the Philippines. And so, you know, that kind of you remember, Bill, what happened with the NBA when they brought Kobe there and Stefan Marbury and built huge businesses and huge followership in Asia.
And so I think we'll, you know, look at that playbook a little bit and make sure we're bringing our game to markets. I mean, we showed our games in India a couple of years ago and 24 million unique viewers watched our games in India and we didn't have one. player from India in the WNBA. So lots of upside globally for us.
And so I think we'll, you know, look at that playbook a little bit and make sure we're bringing our game to markets. I mean, we showed our games in India a couple of years ago and 24 million unique viewers watched our games in India and we didn't have one. player from India in the WNBA. So lots of upside globally for us.
And so I think we'll, you know, look at that playbook a little bit and make sure we're bringing our game to markets. I mean, we showed our games in India a couple of years ago and 24 million unique viewers watched our games in India and we didn't have one. player from India in the WNBA. So lots of upside globally for us.
The timeline is by the end of the year. So I feel really good. We've already been having meetings. I feel really good that we'll get something transformational done together. And you know, the players will posture in the media. But as I said on draft night, we're not going to negotiate in the media.
The timeline is by the end of the year. So I feel really good. We've already been having meetings. I feel really good that we'll get something transformational done together. And you know, the players will posture in the media. But as I said on draft night, we're not going to negotiate in the media.
The timeline is by the end of the year. So I feel really good. We've already been having meetings. I feel really good that we'll get something transformational done together. And you know, the players will posture in the media. But as I said on draft night, we're not going to negotiate in the media.
We're going to negotiate across the table and we're going to return as much as we possibly can with keeping in mind the financial viability of the league for many decades to come. And I think the players will want that too.
We're going to negotiate across the table and we're going to return as much as we possibly can with keeping in mind the financial viability of the league for many decades to come. And I think the players will want that too.
We're going to negotiate across the table and we're going to return as much as we possibly can with keeping in mind the financial viability of the league for many decades to come. And I think the players will want that too.
I heard that you said that.
I heard that you said that.
I heard that you said that.
You know, I threw out that stat about the Golden State Valkyries only having less than 5% of the fans that were season ticket holders that were Golden State Warrior fans. The actual, you know, look, the footprint is challenging. It's a Rubik's Cube, arena availability, broadcast windows. We got to do May to October. And I realized that goes into both the college football season.
You know, I threw out that stat about the Golden State Valkyries only having less than 5% of the fans that were season ticket holders that were Golden State Warrior fans. The actual, you know, look, the footprint is challenging. It's a Rubik's Cube, arena availability, broadcast windows. We got to do May to October. And I realized that goes into both the college football season.
You know, I threw out that stat about the Golden State Valkyries only having less than 5% of the fans that were season ticket holders that were Golden State Warrior fans. The actual, you know, look, the footprint is challenging. It's a Rubik's Cube, arena availability, broadcast windows. We got to do May to October. And I realized that goes into both the college football season.
So we don't generally don't play on Saturdays and it goes into the NFL season for sure. Although we ironically kept a weird pickup in viewership on Sundays when we.