Coinbase treated women’s sports fans to a comparatively sober night out.
Women’s sports bars around the United States were packed with cheering fans as the Minnesota Lynx defeated the New York Liberty at the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Commissioner’s Cup Championship on June 25. The merriment came courtesy of Coinbase, which also sponsored the game.
At the Sports Bra in Portland, Oregon, the bar was filled to its capacity of 56 people, who enjoyed bar food and one free glass of beer or wine — no free cocktails, not even for Cointelegraph — and received a free T-shirt after they responded to invitations from the WNBA or Coinbase. Similar scenes unfolded in bars in New York City, St. Paul and Seattle.
Coinbase has supported the NBA and WNBA for the last three years as part of a multiyear deal. It was good timing. “The growth in the league [WNBA] has been huge. Selling out stadiums — that’s the first time it’s happened in the last couple of years,” Sports Bra operations manager Katie Leedy told Cointelegraph.
