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Five Things Other Leagues Could Learn From the WNBA
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September 04, 2000

Five Things Other Leagues Could Learn From The Wnba

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Keep your season short.
A 32-game schedule leaves no room for coasting.

Keep your postseason short too.
Here's hoping best-of-three series catch on elsewhere.

No prima donnas.
When the players make an average of $55,000 a year, you know they're playing with heart.

Make games family-friendly.
Affordable tickets mean mom and dad can bring the kids and their friends. Which is why eight thousand WNBA fans make more noise than an NBA crowd twice that size.

Play spirited but not mean-spirited.
No crotch grabbing, no throat-slashing gestures. It's called sportsmanship, men.

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