Cut off the NBA subsidy and lets see what the real numbers look like.
The WNBA players would probably have to pay to play.
Matt Walsh:
“So here are some basic facts to flesh this out. First of all, the WNBA has existed for nearly 30 years. It has never once turned a profit. According to WSN.com, a sports betting site, the WNBA generates about $60 million dollars in revenue. For the record, an article in Vox claims that the revenue is in the $100-200 million dollar range, which I find dubious. But either way, the NBA, by contrast, brings in $10 billion of revenue with something like three billion in profits. So that means that the NBA generates more than 150 times the revenue of the WNBA. And if you’re going with the, I think, quite generous a $100 million dollar estimate for the WNBA, then the NBA makes only, only 100 times that amount. So do the math here, by the way, and you’ll see that pound-for-pound WNBA rookies actually make about the same as NBA rookies. You know, 70,000 times a 150 is 10.5 million. But even then, they’re still overpaid because although the WNBA generates 60 million in revenue or even if it’s a 100 million, let’s say, it makes no profit.“
True that. And follow the money further to ask Xi if the CBA/WNBA talks will impact how much he's willing for China money to keep subsidizing the NBA.