WNBA is what you get when the product doesn’t pay for itself. Without the NBA funding it, the league would have folded ages ago
Yup.
And that the players put up with that, doesn’t say much for the NBA, either.
Contrast this with the multitude of attempts to establish a spring football league. Every one of them has gone down in flames, as will the present day UFL eventually, and all for the same reason: they cannot create a sufficient corporate and fan base. The WNBA would play without a single fan, for it is the virtue signaling protection racket for the NBA, a small price for them to pay to keep the race, gender, and alphabet hustlers from the stadium door.
Why do they fund the WNBA? It is one of their propaganda arms. The people that love professional basketball are willing to put up with that crap and pay inordinate amounts of money to these creeps. So, they either agree with them, or have way too much money to spend on “entertainment”.