Posted on 03/09/2025 5:28:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
WNBA player Angel Reese ignited a social media firestorm after claiming players are prepared to sit out games to demand higher salaries during her podcast Friday.
Reese and fellow WNBA player DiJonai Carrington addressed the next WNBA collective bargaining agreement.
"I've got to get in the meetings because I'm hearing like, 'If y'all don't give us what we want, we sitting out,'" Reese said.
Carrington added, "That's a possibility."
Reese has griped about her financial situation in the past.
"The WNBA don't pay my bills at all. I don't even think it pays one of my bills. Literally," Reese said.
Reese's comments incited heated debate on social media about a WNBA player strike resulting in higher salaries. The WNBA has never turned a profit in its existence and has been subsidized by the NBA.
Reese got in on the discussion when she called out conservative influencer AKA on X for a post that Reese said falsely claimed she demanded to be paid as much as NBA players.
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A dollar tree closing in Tennessee has more of an impact on the world than the loss of the wnba.
Hint: beating up and chasing out a player that was doing just that and bringing in the money isn't going to work.
LSU must be so proud to know she’s an alum.
The NBA subsidizes the WNBA, and even with their “breakout” season, thanks to Clark; they still lost money. And the NBA is losing viewers with their crap style of play.
Beyond a small minority, no one wants to see layups, attitudes, and slower play.
The end of the league
Getting enough money through endorsements to pay your bills as a WNBA player seems like a great blessing.
The WNBA salary may actually be less than she got paid in college
:)
If they aren’t careful, the money will dry up, and they’ll have to think about no taxes on tips or one of those sites their fans go to watch them online..
The WNBA lifestyle isn’t going to mirror the NBA lifestyle, so they’ll have to think about marrying an NBA player instead of marrying one of their own WNBA colleagues..
Great!!! Don’t play and the league will break up. No money or notoriety for anyone.
Okay. I’ll bite. What is the WNBA an who is Angle Reece?
The WNBA player who sit out will just be replaced by male trassexuals.
Careful what ya as for sista. They may end up paying you what you are really worth.Which if I had to guess is less than what they are paying you now.
2024 Minimum salary - Four years and over - $76,535
2025 - Minimum Salary - $66,079 - $78,831
Health insurance would be mandatory.
Pension - do not know
The 6 to 8 good players in that league might as well form a Globetrotters type of club and let the rest of them fold for good.
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound. Who is going to miss the WNBA?
$MINIMUM is around $60,000.????
THEY cannot live on that????
They should see what SOC SEC people are living on.
Beating on the star of the league because she is white won’t sell tickets.
Yeah no one watches the wnba so they could go on strike and no one would notice
Dijonai? Just can’t cut the mustard anymore- Dijonaise. Pardon me but only the NBA players get the Grey Poupon treatment. But of course.
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