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WNBA Will Lose $40 Million This Season and its NBA Investors Are Growing Impatient
New York Post ^ | Oct. 18, 2024 | Josh Kosman and Brian Lewis

Posted on 10/19/2024 11:21:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway

While the WNBA is getting sellout crowds for the finals between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx, the league’s owners will not be making a return on their investment for the foreseeable future, sources close to the situation said.

The NBA owns nearly 60 percent of the league.

When one combines the NBA owners’ personal stakes in WNBA teams and the WNBA itself, the amount rises to 75 percent, a source with direct knowledge of the numbers said. The NBA team owners have invested hundreds of millions in the WNBA since its 1996 formation, per sources.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; nba; revenue; sports; wnba; womens
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To: nickcarraway

Expecting to make a profit is white privilege, and if you let the league fail, that’s just plain sexism.

Am I doing it right?


21 posted on 10/19/2024 1:18:28 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: nickcarraway

The investors have a league of militant lesbians who hate Christianity and white women who are not genderbent or confused. These investors got what they wanted, a league of their own making which no one is willing to pay to watch.

Bring out the high school boys teams to play the eventual league champions.


22 posted on 10/19/2024 1:20:17 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Billthedrill
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23 posted on 10/19/2024 1:21:00 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: nickcarraway

As it should be...


24 posted on 10/19/2024 2:09:42 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: nickcarraway

It the Black Lesbo Employment Act .
Nothing more .


25 posted on 10/19/2024 2:17:38 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: nickcarraway

There’s no market for it and the salary demands don’t support a possitive buisness case.


26 posted on 10/19/2024 2:31:04 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: dfwgator

my first thought - total coincidence I heard this on youtube driving home today


27 posted on 10/19/2024 2:32:04 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: nickcarraway

And people wonder why the WNBA women don’t make the big bucks


28 posted on 10/19/2024 5:01:31 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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