Las Vegas Aces' A'ja Wilson celebrates winning the 2022 WNBA Finals after defeating the Connecticut Sun.
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Las Vegas Aces' A'ja Wilson celebrates winning the 2022 WNBA Finals after defeating the Connecticut Sun.
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Visit the Las Vegas Aces website to see amazing videos of women's professional basketball stars scoring, running through stadiums, and striking epic poses. What you won't see are available season tickets.
“The back-to-back WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces announced today that season ticket memberships for the team's 2024 season are sold out, making them the first team in WNBA history to sell out their season ticket allotment,” the website states. .
The Aces are currently the winningest team in women's professional basketball. Last season, the team won its second consecutive WNBA title. If they succeed in scoring the third point, the Aces will close in on the Houston Comets, who easily won this tournament four years in a row from 1997 to 2000.
At the time, women's professional basketball was in a slump. Since the WNBA was launched in 1997, its teams have battled for traction with fans and sponsors who tend to dismiss women's sports.
However, women's basketball has made remarkable progress recently. Last season, average attendance at WNBA games increased 16% from the previous year. WNBA games averaged more than 6,000 fans per game. The Aces hold the highest average attendance rate in the league, regularly drawing nearly 10,000 fans to each game.
“This is a very special milestone for our franchise, as it truly represents the culmination of years of effort by our players, coaches and front office as we strive to build a championship culture on and off the court. “We foster impactful relationships within our communities,” Ace President Nicky Fergus said in a statement to NPR. “Las Vegas truly showed up and stepped up for this franchise, creating a bond between the city and our team that is unparalleled in the WNBA.”
Women's basketball is in great shape with the rise of a new generation of stars, including college standout Caitlin Clark, who herself will enter the WNBA draft. The Big Ten women's basketball tournament sold out for the first time earlier this year. The WNBA currently receives an estimated $860 million in sponsorship. There is also talk that a new franchise initiative is in the works, which would add 14 teams to the league in 2024.
As for the Las Vegas Aces, the team is scheduled to play their first game of the season on May 14th against the Phoenix Mercury, with stars such as A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, and Jackie Young one of the few true players. Brittney Greiner will compete. Celebrities in women's basketball. Good luck getting a single ticket.
Edited for the web by Rose Friedman
