I read a while back that one player wanted the government to force the WNBA to pay them the same as the NBA players.
BTW, after their disrespect to veterans and other patriots I won't watch either one of them.
The average yearly pay for the NBA is $7 million, for the WNBA it's less than $100,000. The WNBA operates at a deficit, covered by the NBA, although I don't think they are transparent about how much. So NBA players are contributing towards the WNBA players' income. I don't know how they could be able to manage income parity.