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CNBC Sport: Why the WNBA needs the rich to get richer
CNBC Sport Newsletter ^ | 03 July 2025 | Alex Sherman

Posted on 07/03/2025 9:20:59 AM PDT by zeestephen

This week, the WNBA revealed three new teams will be coming to the league - The investment strategy for WNBA owners is to build equity for future value gains - These teams won't make money for a while, and ownership is fine with that.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: womensports

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1 posted on 07/03/2025 9:20:59 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Great! Now there’s three more teams I will never watch!


2 posted on 07/03/2025 9:25:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: zeestephen

“These teams won’t make money ever, and the owners are fine with that....”

fixed


3 posted on 07/03/2025 9:26:43 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: zeestephen

Everyone is watching because of CC. And they’re trying to beat her up. Right now, CC is not playing due to her injuries.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 9:28:12 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: zeestephen

Just like baseball, keep watering down the sport with more and more and more worthless, inferior players.


5 posted on 07/03/2025 9:28:49 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: zeestephen
The hope is equity appreciation more than makes up for the yearly cash burn.

The same stupid people who invest in vanity project newspapers are now investing in vanity project WNBA teams. Once the cash starts flowing, the players are going to scream for an outsized share of it and cry racism when they don't get it.

6 posted on 07/03/2025 9:29:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

That’s how idiotic the left is.


7 posted on 07/03/2025 9:47:33 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

WNBA will never make money. They are subsidized by the NBA.


8 posted on 07/03/2025 9:48:11 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: zeestephen

The WNBA is the virtue signaling, money laundering arm of the NBA. Clark blew it wide open by mistakenly believing that the purpose of the WNBA was to promote well played women’s basketball.


9 posted on 07/03/2025 9:53:05 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: zeestephen

“We lose money per unit sold, but we plan to make it up with volume”


10 posted on 07/03/2025 10:45:13 AM PDT by um1990 (Under attack from within. We must fight on.)
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To: zeestephen
Why watch a sport where someone the likes of Angel Reese, a hateful person, is thought of as star?

She is a rebound leader because she misses most of her layups and gets her own rebounds. She has a 2” vertical leap, she gets away with traveling, and it is not even questionable, but miraculously missed by the refs.

The league is just a total $hite show, and is a microcosm of leftist political policies.

11 posted on 07/03/2025 10:52:51 AM PDT by dznutz
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As long as there are bigger, stronger,faster players few will watch the wNBA.
What would help women’s basketball would be a four quarter game with mixed teams. Each city has a mens team and a female team. But not mixed on the court.
The men vs men only in quarters 1 and 4. And the women vs women only in quarters 2 and 3.. No trans involved . Final score would be composite of both men’s and women scores.
Details could be worked out later. Things could dicey if there are romances going on with players on different teams who just happen to be playing against each other. Be more inclusive than current setup.
Just sayin’
If they can make Olympic sports out of curling, synchronized swimming, half pipe snowboarding, rhythmic gymnastics with idiotic twirling paper ribbons,would this idea be any stranger?


12 posted on 07/03/2025 11:28:06 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: zeestephen

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.


13 posted on 07/03/2025 12:31:38 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: dznutz
Re: "Angel Reese - She has a 2 inch vertical leap, she gets away with traveling..."

Very few people have watched what happened during the five seconds BEFORE Reese and Clark had their dust up.

One of Clark's team mates - I think the center - has perfect position for a defensive rebound off the board.

Reese approaches the center from behind and shoves her so hard she almost falls down, ending up out of bounds and BEHIND the basket.

A ref is standing 10-15 feet away, staring right at the flagrant foul, and does not make the call.

Clark instantly looks at the ref and points at the center who got shoved.

The ref still does nothing.

Meanwhile, after her flagrant foul, Reese steals the rebound and starts dribbling for the lay up.

Clark aggressively rips the ball away from Reese. Reese starts throwing punches. Clark walks away. The ref calls a foul on Clark.

Incomprehensible. Deliberate cheating, and 90% of the people who watched the tape think Clark fouled Reese.

14 posted on 07/03/2025 12:54:54 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: zeestephen

They need men’s league to gift more money. Maybe they should earn it from them?


15 posted on 07/03/2025 1:33:27 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: zeestephen

The fix is in, just like with everything else in life with them, never had to survive on their own merits, everything handed to them.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 4:54:26 PM PDT by dznutz
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