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00:00What an incredible start to her debut from a sports betting perspective.
00:08I mean, Sam, you couldn't have asked for more.
00:10She landed almost right on the number as far as what FanDuel set their line at,
00:13as far as her total amount of points in Game 1.
00:15She'll play Game 2 tonight.
00:17And sports betting and sportsbook operators are probably, I'm going to guess,
00:20more action than they ever have before.
00:24Yeah, well, fans of hers and fans of women's basketball
00:27might not have been as happy with her performance.
00:29Certainly bettors weren't.
00:31To your point, books were very, very happy.
00:33They had her point total at 20.5.
00:35She landed right at 20, kind of struggling in her pro debut.
00:39And it was no surprise that she was the most popular player prop bet
00:43in the WNBA during her debut.
00:45It was actually the Connecticut Suns' first sold-out crowd in 20 years.
00:50So she's attracted a ton of attention at the books and in the stands.
00:54But it was also the first time in the middle of the NBA playoffs
00:57that you had a female basketball player be the most popular prop bet
01:02across the NBA or the WNBA.
01:05I've never seen that before.
01:07So she continues to kind of break records,
01:09generating betting interest like that.
01:12So she's going to be the most popular bet again tonight.
01:16I would be surprised if she wasn't across both leagues.
01:19Already we're seeing 99% of the bets coming in on the over for her points.
01:25And the interest she's generated in women's basketball
01:28has just been crazy carrying over from college and the WNBA draft,
01:32which saw over 322 times more money bet on it than last year.
01:37And betting on the WNBA is already up 350% year over year.
01:42You mentioned the draft earlier.
01:43I would be shocked if there wasn't more betting on the WNBA draft
01:47than the NBA draft with how little buzz there is this year.
01:51So.