{"id":60570,"date":"2025-08-05T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60570\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:42:10","slug":"kelsey-plum-suggests-involving-500-billion-streaming-giant-to-help-fix-declining-all-star-game-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60570\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Plum Suggests Involving $500 Billion Streaming Giant to Help Fix Declining All-Star Game Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s an interesting time to be an all-star game in North American pro sports. Major League Baseball hit it out of the park, literally, a few weeks ago with its first ever home run swing-off. In February, the NHL\u2019s 4 Nations Face-Off was a resounding success. On the other side of the coin, the NFL\u2019s Pro Bowl became so unnecessary that the game is no longer played, while the NBA has been getting killed for years for the total lack of effort on display.<\/p>\n

The WNBA had its own All-Star festivities about two weeks ago, and it was a bit of a mixed bag. Ratings were down, probably owing to Caitlin Clark being sidelined with an injury. The league did get plenty of attention though for the fun and revolutionary StudBudz Livestream and the \u2018Pay Us What You Owe Us\u2019 warmup shirts the players wore in solidarity over the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations.<\/p>\n

As for the play on the court, it wasn\u2019t much better than what the NBA All-Star Game regularly offers up. Practically no defense was played, and as a result, the 151-131 score was the highest in WNBA history.<\/p>\n

Candace Parker blasted the effort of the players on her new\u00a0Post Moves<\/a> podcast with Aliyah Boston, saying, \u201cY\u2019all cannot come out there with those shirts of \u2018Pay Us What You Owe Us\u2019 and then do that in the All-Star Game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NBA has found it impossible to motivate its players to play hard at the All-Star Game, but Kelsey Plum dropped an idea on\u00a0All the Smoke<\/a> that makes a lot of sense for all parties involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking, the game is sponsored by Netflix, million-dollar pot,\u201d she suggested.\u00a0All the Smoke host Matt Barnes chimed in to say,\u00a0\u201cY\u2019all got a ton of money, right? I ain\u2019t counting nobody\u2019s pockets but Netflix is not doing bad these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

That inspired Plum to up the ante.\u00a0\u201cI know, I went small with a million-dollar pot. Maybe we should do a $5 million pot, split it 12 ways for the winning roster, and I guarantee people are picking up full-court.\u201d<\/p>\n

WNBA players make a pittance compared to their NBA counterparts, so if they could make more in one night than they do all season, Plum is right that the intensity would go way up. Barnes is also on the money that Netflix isn\u2019t exactly light in the wallet.<\/p>\n

Not only that, the streaming giant has made sports a real priority in recent years. It\u2019s about to begin year two of its three-season deal with the NFL and in December, it also secured the rights to the next two FIFA Women\u2019s World Cups.<\/p>\n

It also began broadcasting WWE\u2019s Monday Night Raw in January. Since then, it has become one of the top destinations for sports documentaries with the Untold series and programs like\u00a0Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Full Swing, Quarterback and Starting 5.<\/p>\n

Plum was one of many athletes to make a cameo in Netflix\u2019s recently-released\u00a0Happy Gilmore 2, so maybe someone in the Netflix office would be willing to listen to her idea. Stranger Things (also a Netflix show!) have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s an interesting time to be an all-star game in North American pro sports. Major League Baseball hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-60570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}