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NBA Owners Reportedly Furious With WNBA For Losing More Money During Most Popular Season
BroBible ^ | Oct 19, 2024 | Grayson Weir

Posted on 10/19/2024 4:14:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The WNBA is coming off of its most-popular season in league history with the arrival of Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and the rest of the 2024 rookie class. It is still going to lose a lot of money and NBA owners are reportedly furious with the continued financial struggles.

They are tired of paying to prop someone else up.

According to the New York Post, the WNBA will lost $40 million this season. This is the 26th-straight year where it will fail to turn a profit. Never before has the professional women’s basketball league made a single dollar since it first came to exist in the spring of 1996.

The NBA owns approximately 60% of its female counterpart. That number is actually closer to 75% when the owners’ personal stakes are factored into the equation.

NBA team owners want to see a return on their investment into the WNBA. They are frustrated.

To be fair, the WNBA was projected to lose $50 million in 2024. It did $10 million better than expected — in a year that saw unprecedented viewership, attendance and popularity — and… still lost money.

The WNBA can’t turn a profit.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: profit; revenue; sports; wnba
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1 posted on 10/19/2024 4:14:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tribal infighting.


2 posted on 10/19/2024 4:16:44 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: hercuroc

As usual.


3 posted on 10/19/2024 4:17:53 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican

They had a money-maker.
They got rid of her real quick.
Ain’t nobody got time fo’ dat.


4 posted on 10/19/2024 4:19:02 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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The WNBA’s charter flight program is estimated to cost around $25 million per year for the next two seasons


5 posted on 10/19/2024 4:19:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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With all the wiggling, giggling and jiggling Harris and Tiny Timmy Tampon are doing, the NBA broads don’t stand a chance. Their only hope is to sign Tater Swuft and learn the lyrics to the Black Super Bowl National Anthem.


6 posted on 10/19/2024 4:20:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wait, you’re telling me that there’s a professional basketball league where the players are women?


7 posted on 10/19/2024 4:21:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The WNBA can’t turn a profit

Maybe they should start endorsing merchandise: Airhead Jordans.

8 posted on 10/19/2024 4:23:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They need some trans players.


9 posted on 10/19/2024 4:24:49 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Quit complaining, jettison the league, let it stand on its own; if it cannot survive financially, it should not exist. How long are you guys gonna’ cry? Quit bitching and get a load off your pants.
10 posted on 10/19/2024 4:24:51 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: MinorityRepublican

Black lesbian employment-act


11 posted on 10/19/2024 4:30:37 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: Fungi

Truth is it isn’t popular enough to stand on its own particularly at the salaries WNBA players are demanding. That’s too ‘non-woke’ to say it out loud. The NBA created this, popularized it (Tried to!) so they’re stuck with it. They can’t out and out shut it down unless they have a ‘plausible’ scapegoat to blame. (Note plausible from a political PR standpoint to blame it on!)


12 posted on 10/19/2024 4:31:32 PM PDT by Reily
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To: MinorityRepublican

Would be interesting to see a cash flow balance sheet of revenues and expenses.
Those ‘independent’ WNBA femmes need the men after all to prop up ‘a league of their own’. Then again who wants to spend good $ watching Democrat Dykes with attitudes bouncing basketballs and each other.


13 posted on 10/19/2024 4:31:34 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I helped. You’re welcome.


14 posted on 10/19/2024 4:31:41 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Simple solution: Pay them all minimum wage...


15 posted on 10/19/2024 4:33:44 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The WNBA All-Star game should be the ladies’ best players, vs a random selection of Philadelphia boys JV players.


16 posted on 10/19/2024 4:33:52 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If I were an owner, I’d point out that I already send money to an organization that hemorrhages money to the tune of trillions and sell my team.


17 posted on 10/19/2024 4:34:35 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Imagine how much it would crater if white Americans stopped owning, coaching, playing, and watching the WNBA. Give the league to the race that feels it’s theirs.


18 posted on 10/19/2024 4:34:57 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To be fair, the WNBA was projected to lose $50 million in 2024. It did $10 million better than expected

Lol. It’s the “inflation is down” argument.
19 posted on 10/19/2024 4:36:58 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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The players should go on strike and demand double their salary.


20 posted on 10/19/2024 4:37:00 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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