With an NFL Sunday in the mix, Clark’s first playoff game against the Connecticut Sun on September 22 drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers. In Game 2, she broke that mark with 2.54 million viewers. But, Clark was sent home for the offseason after the Indiana Fever and he lost both of those games.
The New York Liberty, the Minnesota Lynx, the Sun, MVP A’ja Wilson, and the Las Vegas Aces are the teams still in the running for the WNBA championship.
The Aces and Liberty’s first meeting was a rematch of the WNBA Finals from the previous season.
Even yet, it was historically good for a WNBA playoff game without Clark, since it outperformed all of the TV ratings for the two teams’ previous year’s championship games.
Meanwhile, only about 650,000 people watched Game 1 of the Sun-Lynx series.
Viewership for those two games has also lagged far behind some of Clark’s regular season contests. Early in September, during a Friday night NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers in Week 1, Clark’s Indiana Fever faced the Minnesota Lynx in front of a television audience of 1.26 million viewers.
