Nneka Ogwumike challenges reporter, shines light onto undeniable success of and investment in growing WNBA

Nneka Ogwumike responds to a question about how to ensure future investors will buy into the WNBA and highlights the leagues undeniable growth over recent years.

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What do you think the players and the league need to do to show the future investors that it is worth continuing to do those things?

And can I ask you a question?

What do you think we’re doing right now?

That’s bringing investors in?

Do you, do you feel like we’re doing anything right now that’s bringing those people in?

Yeah, I do.

I think that there’s a blend of style and substance that I don’t think we had seen as dramatically as we do.

Now.

I think the All Star Game is a great opportunity to showcase those things.

How conscious are you guys of the box office opportunities and embellishing that so that investors do wanna keep pouring in, pouring in because you guys deserve for it to be pouring in.

I mean, if we deserve for it, I don’t really know what else we need to do.

You know what I’m saying?

That’s why I asked you.

I was like, if what we’re doing is working like, you know, when someone wants to invest the product doesn’t change, you know what I’m saying?

They just pay attention to the product in a different way and I think that’s what we’re experiencing right now.

Um I have to be honest, like that’s a question that I used to get a lot that really used to grind my gears because, you know, we grew up being like saying, like they should lower the rim, they should do this.

Y’all should wear skirts, y’all should wear booty shorts.

Like, you know what I’m saying?

Like, and I’m just kind of like we’re playing basketball, the level of investment is coming now because more people can see it, you know, it’s more visible, it’s more accessible and they see that we are driving culture in a lot of different ways.

But most and most importantly, we can hoop, you know, we can hoop, we like we’re playing basketball out here, that’s the product.

So, I mean, unless you wanna have like a five point line, I don’t really know what else we could really do.

We have people that are showing it from out there.

But um I don’t think that there’s anything that the players need to do more of.

Um I really don’t and I think that the league is responding in ways that we’ve experienced, especially this season that um that’s showing that that investment is going somewhere and we’re a part of a union that is also working to ensure that that valuation continues to, continues to be shown

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