You posted an article about the WNBA.
Posted on 07/03/2025 4:47:13 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark and her WNBA contemporaries just took a step closer to an offseason strike following a weak first collective bargaining agreement proposal from the league.
There have been rumblings for months that the WNBA and its players could be headed to a work stoppage after this season. How much players make has always been a hot-button topic around the league. And throughout its existence, its athletes did not have much leverage in CBA talks with the WNBA often taking losses.
However, Caitlin Clark and the class of 2024 rookies helped expand the league’s popularity. And led it to record revenue and attendance last year. It gave WNBA players what they needed to push for increased wages in the next CBA. The current CBA ends after this season, and the two sides have begun talks on a new one. However, things have quickly gotten off to a bumpy start.
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“” Would anyone really care? “”
Lesbians hit hardest.
Womens basketball is right next to synchronized swimming on my list of favorite sports
Cut off the NBA subsidy and lets see what the real numbers look like.
The WNBA players would probably have to pay to play.
Not I. And the NBA players would like to get the $60-75M annual subsidy back so they can receive their share.
YES!!! Go on strike! Please, please, pleeeeeeeease! For the love of all that of us who work in sports bars, go on strike!
It’s an off season strike of course with this league that doesn’t make much difference.
I care. I'd be glad to get rid of that money pit clogging up the airwaves. The sooner they go bust (pun), the better.
Yep. Bye. All 8 fans might be upset though.
Wait, what? Off-season strike???
Nobody would really care, which is unfortunate. The general agreement should be contracts based on the share of the profits, with an eye on keeping the league in the black.
If the players aren’t happy with that, than they can risk their jobs and see if the league survives.
Dozens of fans will miss out.
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.“
That'll Show Them!
What is the big deal about people that can bounce a f-ing basketball? They don’t mean anything. Just sayin...
You posted an article about the WNBA.
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.
Great. No one is interested in that league anyway. Seriously. I see local media trying to hype it up. I see some online ESPN junkies pretending it is a thing. But it isn’t. No one gives a crap about the WNBA.
How DARE the WNBA not share their vast profits with the players . . . . . . . . . . .
They will have more time for scissoring with each other.
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