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WNBA Gives the Finals a Lunch Break and the Dream Wants a Better Reservation
· New York time
The Atlanta Dream criticized the WNBA for scheduling a Finals game on Thursday afternoon, prompting reactions from Flavor Flav and Hillary Clinton. The dispute turns a championship schedule into a question about when fans can actually watch. A weekday afternoon game meets a very different calendar from an evening event. Some viewers may be available, while others have work, school or other commitments. The Dream's complaint puts those competing schedules beside the league's task of staging its biggest games. The appeal of a championship is that it feels like an occasion. The difficulty of a lunchtime start is that many potential viewers already have an occasion booked, usually under the less glamorous title of work. A fan who wants to follow the game may have to fit the league's marquee event around a meeting that was scheduled without consulting the standings. Public reactions have given the timing debate a larger audience than an ordinary calendar dispute might receive. The league gets the attention it wants for its Finals, although some of that attention is now directed at the clock. The Dream's objection is a request for a championship-sized spotlight, preferably one that does not have to share the table with a sandwich and an unread afternoon agenda.
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