LisaRaye McCoy knows her way around a strip club ... and says the skin biz is doing better than ever ... thanks to the heavy-hitter of making it rain.

LisaRaye, who starred as a stripper in "The Players Club," told us ... where there's big money, there's opportunity -- and she agreed with our photog that there's one athlete in particular who's attracting more and more women to exotic dancing.

She even thinks his extravagant spending is helping the country's bottom line. So, give that man another lap dance, please ... for America!