This is Angel Reese’s account and I just want to see him play basketball

The WNBA preseason is underway and there’s already drama.

Both Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark made their WNBA debuts this weekend, but only one among the games was televised.

I think you may guess which one.

Although the WNBA app showed that every one preseason games can be available to watch this weekend, this turned out not to be the case and fans were upset, especially those that were hoping for Angel Reese’s debut.

Since the sport couldn’t be viewed on TV or on the WNBA app, a fan in attendance streamed the whole event live, and while gauging views on social media is not an actual science, the video was viewed by roughly 434,000 people on Saturday.

Imagine if the league actually counted those views.

Does the league realize how much star power it has now? As Lynx’s coach – Cheryl Reeve said in a Friday morning tweet encouraging people to watch the Lynx/Sky matchup, the league is greater than just one player.

It’s still unclear to me whether this was the fault of the WNBA itself or the tv network that owned the rights to the Chicago Sky or Minnesota Lynx games, but it surely was one other example of a wasted opportunity to make the most of all of the current emotions around women’s basketball.

We keep hearing that we want to do more to support the WNBA, and judging by the response on social media from individuals who weren’t able to see Friday’s game (just search the WNBA to see people furiously screaming at them), plenty of people that donated $35 to support the league.

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Why cannot they see all of the matches?

If there are strange bureaucratic structures that prevent certain games from being included on League Pass, everyone involved needs to come together and determine how fans – individuals who want to support the league by watching – can get their investment back.

I said it within the headline and I’ll say it again: this is the Angel Reese account. I just want to see her play.

The WNBA wanted all this attention and now they’ve it, but it surely looks like they do not have the horses to capitalize on all the eye, and ultimately, in the event that they don’t, recover from it, the players will suffer.

Monday was Angel Reese’s twenty second birthday. She spent the evening on the Met Gala.

She will play her second WNBA game on Tuesday night as her team takes on the New York Liberty, and since everyone caused such a stir on Friday night, the WNBA found a way to the sport is available to watch as a part of League Pass.

I hope everyone will tune in and watch our girl do her thing.

In the grand scheme of things, the dearth of availability of a preseason game may not seem to be that big of a deal, and that would be the case within the NBA, but within the case of the WNBA, the sport matters since the more eyes we will placed on it, Ladies, the more support we construct for the league and The more support we construct for the league, the more likely we’re to make changes that may translate into things like not having to fly ads to games and getting extra money for girls players.

There’s a fan base there. There is support. People are ready, willing and hungry for girls’s basketball.

WNBA, the ball is now in your court.

The development you’ve got been asking for is inside your reach. Are you ready to take care of it? Once you’ve got it, what are you going to do with it?