Posted on 05/07/2024 1:57:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The WNBA is on the cusp of upgrading its travel logistics.
The league is discussing the parameters of all 12 teams flying by charter “as soon as this regular season,” USA Today’s Christine Brennan reported on Tuesday.
“Why now? The explosion of interest in the league, business growth and anticipated future revenue from the next media deal,” Brennan wrote on X.
WNBA commissioner Cathy Englebert quickly confirmed the report, telling reporters Tuesday that the charter flights will be up and running “as soon as we can get the planes in place.”
The WNBA has been in a pickle for several years about teams flying commercial.
Two years ago, the league fined the Liberty $500,000 for breaking the rules and flying private, as players crowed on social media about getting treated well by team ownership.
On one hand, the players become household names in college basketball, where in many cases they fly private.
On the other, the league is entering its 28th season and has traditionally lost money and been subsidized by the NBA.
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Yes, she, and all the other WNBA players should pay back the NBA. Why should players in the NBA earn less in order to subsidize the WNBA?
It's not a garnished wage when the WNBA players never earned it to start with.
Caitlyn is selling out crowds in opponents stadiums in preseason.
Watch, this gal is taking pro ball by storm. If you watch her she is good.
She is a Christian, with a fiance who is also a good bb player. yet the lesbians hate her, because she is whit, straight, and better then all of them.
You will eat your words, because what people see in her is someone who can take on the woke crowd and shut up the haters.
In preseason she is already taking it to the faggots playing in the WNBA.
Mind you, she was drafted by the worse team, so the team will struggle, but not because of her. yet I bet by mid season she has the whole team rolling.
She will raise the level of play by the rest of the team as she has done with every team she has been on since she was 12 years old playing with the boys.
Now she cannot compete with men today, but she was better than most boys in high school, and as good as 60% of the boys in College.
Mark my word, the very thing these lesbians hate will be the one that brings respectability to the WNBA. Or at least the games she plays in.
Lighten up, Francis. Caitlyn just signed with Nike for $20 million.
Nothing against the WNBA or the Indiana Fever, but just out of curiosity I’d like to see a matchup between them and this year’s Indiana High School Boys 4A champs, Fishers High School. They went 29–1 against some of the toughest competition in the Indianapolis Metro region.
Nah. AAU basketball 8th grade. The boys will still win in that match-up.
She’s going to make way more than that.
The revenue you generate is the pool your pay comes from. The WNBA made $200 million last year. That’s the entire league. And it was a great year, they doubled their 2022 income. So when the entire league makes less than the NFL salary cap players aren’t going to make very much. Now the good news for her is league was already on an upswing, and it swing faster with her. But they’re a long way from being able to pay anybody male sports money. Luckily she’s got endorsement deals, so she’ll make bank. Just not from her team.
So there is enough income to pay for the charters or is the NBA worried about their teams more?
Nobody in the NBA is being paid less. The CBA outlines what percentage of NBA revenues go to the players, I think it’s 60 but it might be higher. And it’s revenue not profit. Whatever subsidy the NBA is giving the WNBA is an a pittance compared to league revenue, and not coming out of players’ end.
It always comes out of the players/employees pay and compensation. Always.
Beyond the NBA largely treating it as a loss leader like any other rational business.
This material is spot on.
Toshiba lost money on every laptop that they ever brought to market.
Does the CEO of the laptop division owe back pay?
Now that the silliness is behind us.
Feel free to justify the largest producer the league has ever seen being compensated less than the folks that could not earn one net positive dollar.
If Toshiba was taking from another line of business to subsidize the failed laptop line, they might find themselves out of the market.
The NBA is a monopoly that's allowed to exist by argument. The taxpayers would be right to call for the NBA to pay a larger share of their stadium, roads, and law enforcement costs - seeing that they have money to waste on the WNBA.
I’m an elephant at the local circus.
We’ve been losing money forever but have a wealthy benefactor keeping us afloat.
I get paid peanuts.
Walt Disney showed up one night and said Dumbo I have a great deal for you. He pays endless sums of money and makes me so famous.
Ofc I still perform with the circus to help out my buddies.
The circus is now filling every seat. Things are going great! He’s still paying me peanuts under the guise I don’t need to be paid any more thanks to Disney.
It’s called Marxism.
‘from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs!’
No it doesn’t. You are, quite simply, wrong. That would violate the CBA and blow up the league. It probably comes out of the advertising budget, all the leagues want more women fans, they’re the under tapped market.
An EXCELLENT analogy!
They prefer to watch Tom Brady.
Not Caitlin Clark.
For many years, only lesbian fans went to the WNBA games.
The players' agents know women fans aren't coming and that NBA players won't make more money from throwing good money after bad.
No, they don’t. The CBA percentage is of gross revenue. Nothing is off the table.
The WNBA doubled revenue last year. Thanks to the evolution of the college games women’s game is catching on.
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