Clara Wu Tsai was once again sitting courtside at Barclays Centef Saturday afternoon to watch her New York Liberty win its third straight game and the first this season at Barclays Center on ABC. As usual, the co-owner of the Liberty and Brooklyn Nets was seen with big names like women’s tennis icon Billie Jean King.
The Libs like the rest of women’s basketball are riding a wave of dramatically increasing fan interest, one she believes could turn the Liberty into “the first billion dollar women’s sports franchise” she said this week.
In speaking at a meeting of the Harvard Business School’s New York alumni club, Wu Tsai, who holds and MBA from Harvard, predicted that everything is lining up for the big jump in valuations, starting with TV viewership.