According to the article, the maximum salary for a WNBA player is $228,094. Brittney Griner was being paid just under that amount, so she wasn't struggling financially. You can live pretty comfortably here on that kind of salary. The media has made it sound as though she was just barely scrapping by, and had no choice but to go overseas to play basketball.
Agreed. $228K is not a bad salary. It’s not NBA money - far from it. But the WNBA thinks it should be more on par with the NBA. Ha!
Wait…$200+ Is what she’s making? What she is whining about?
“You can live pretty comfortably here on that kind of salary”
Hello.
In Yekaterinburg she was paid about a million plus luxury accommodations and chauffeured car.