Indianapolis, house to the league’s largest draw within the Indiana Fever, will host the WNBA All-Celebrity Sport for the primary time in 2025, ESPN reported Wednesday.
The WNBA is anticipated to make a press release later this week, in line with the file, with a Fever spokesperson telling the Indianapolis Celebrity on Wednesday, “Indianapolis has a really perfect historical past of internet hosting occasions.”
Town hosted the NBA All-Celebrity Sport this yr at Gainbridge Fieldhouse and could also be scheduled to host the 2026 males’s basketball Ultimate 4 at Lucas Oil Stadium and the 2028 girls’s Ultimate 4, additionally at Gainbridge. All the 2021 NCAA males’s event was once performed in Indiana with the Ultimate 4 at Lucas Oil Stadium.
The Fever took off in reputation once they drafted No. 1 total select Caitlin Clark out of Iowa. An NCAA record-setting scorer whose Iowa video games drew massive crowds, Clark has persevered to be a sensation in her rookie season.
The Fever lead the league in attendance at house and when they are away, with a 265 p.c build up from 2023 by means of averaging 16,898 fanatics at 11 video games at house (capability 18,000).
Additionally they best the league with 38 video games on nationwide tv and feature set viewership data for the WNBA.
Clark joined remaining yr’s best select, Aliyah Boston, and teammate Kelsey Mitchell for the 2024 All-Celebrity Sport in Phoenix, which drew a listing collection of audience in crushing the outdated mark set 21 years previous. A complete of three.44 million folks watched the sport on ABC, topping the former listing of one.44 million audience in 2003.
Ultimate yr’s sport, additionally performed in primetime and televised by means of ABC, drew an target audience of 850,000.
–Box Degree Media
