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Russian Laundering and the WNBA Village

Where is the WNBA after 25 years?

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Ethan Strauss
Mar 08, 2022
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At one point, 2009 to be precise, I worked for the WNBA as part of my NBA gig. I was a young and naïve PR grunt back then, but yet even I started to pick up on certain patterns. Something was off about the league. There wasn’t just an absence of enthusiasm for the WNBA, but also, a broader effort to obscure that apathy by laundering interest in the NBA as interest in its subsidiary.

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