We’re not sure if this qualifies as a Tuesday Teasings entry, but we’re going with it anyway. The WNBA is staging its “Commissioner’s Cup” championship tonight. Does anyone even know who the WNBA commissioner is? Probably not. Furthermore, this event is presented/sponsored by a cryptocurrency company, which means it is probably just as fraudulent as most cryptocurrency scams out there. Unreal.

The matchup? The first-place Minnesota Lynx versus … the eighth-place Indiana Fever, without their overhyped superstar (who is injured). How did this matchup come about as a marquee event? Good question. The Fever are 8-8 this season, but somehow the only games that counted for this Commissioner’s Cup were the ones Indiana somehow managed to win. We truly wonder how that convenience came to be.

Serves the WNBA right here to have no Caitlin Clark on the playing floor tonight. By the way, she is tenth on her own team in sabermetric value per minute played right now: this is a fact that anyone can verify, readily. Her teammates might play better without her, in truth. But expect the cameras to constantly be on Clark, waving her team towel from the end of the bench, just so the suckers can tune in and see her face.

For better or for worse, the WNBA has married its future to Clark, and the more she is exposed by opponents and sabermetrics, the less successful—financially—this marriage is going to be. But it’s too late now, as the league has announced expansion plans yet again to get the league to 18 teams by 2030, banking of Clark’s shallow popularity in the process. After not expanding for 17 years, this is it for the WNBA now.

Franchises in Portland and Toronto will join the league next summer (2026), and then it will be Cleveland (2028), Detroit (2029), and Philadelphia (2030) next. Heck, Detroit already had a team and lost it; why would the WNBA want to go back there? This is what the league has invested in the promotion of Clark, and that’s why it’s so obvious this game tonight was manufactured by the league to highlight her on the court.

We are proud to support the league through factual/honest coverage; as noted, too, we bought in to the Golden State Valkyries franchise as Founders Club season-ticket holders. However, the shady dealings of the WNBA—which should come as no surprise since the NBA itself is the primary financial backer, and we all know the shade the NBA has been throwing for decades—might have us thinking twice now, actually.

So, no, we are not going to watch the Commissioner’s Cup tonight, and we wouldn’t even watch it if Clark was playing: we see the huge flaws and holes in her game (33.5-percent shooting from downtown and 5.6 turnovers per game, career wise) that the lamestream sports mediots don’t acknowledge in their own desperate attempts at WNBA clickbait. We will keep watching the games from afar and up close, though.

Because we exist to share the facts … that’s all.