It's the Brian Lairn Show on WNYC.

Welcome back, everybody.

I'm Matt Katz filling in for Brian today.

We're going to end today's show with a little WNBA talk.

With a month left in the regular season, the WNBA champion

New York Liberty are tied for first place in the Eastern Conference. But off the court,

there's an important WNBA story that we're going to look at this morning, and that's a pending

new contract for the players. Joining us to talk about the latest with the WNBA is Miles Erhrlich, who covers the WNBA for the WNBA news site, WinSider.

He's also co-host of the podcast, Pull Up with Miles and Owen.

Welcome to WMYC, Miles.

Thanks so much for having me, Matt.

Happy to talk W.

All right, here we go.

So start us off with the little lay of the land.

It was a monster year for the WNBA.

Last year, rookie Caitlin Clark took a league by storm.

Ratings skyrocketed.

How's this season going with the W?

So, yes, last year was the continuation of growth, but Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, too,

both came into the league and immediately we just saw this, this giant jump. Everything had been

going up in kind of a linear growth, normal sort of way, and then it was this just giant,

momentous, like, comet through the sky kind of jump that we

...