Everyone Said The Same Thing About WNBA Players' 'Pay Us What You Owe Us' Protest

The Spun ^ | Jul 19, 2025 | Tzvi Machlin

[shelterguy]

“””I’d rather watch beach volleyball.”””

I’d rather watch paint dry.

[verum ago]

If they’ve lost $40 million a year for 29 years, who’s taking the loss?

The NBA, who's used the WNBA as a tax write-off from the very start.

Financially speaking, that's the WNBA's actual function, and literally always has been, period, full-stop: a tax write-off for the NBA.

The WNBA would not have existed, nor have ever continued existing to this very day, without the NBA subsidizing it.

The WNBA has existed for 29 years and has not in a single damn year turned a profit. It has an annual revenue of ~200 million currently, vs the NBA's ~ 12 billion dollar annual revenue.

The mean WNBA player loses her league ~$105,000 dollars per year against an average salary of $147,745 per year, while the mean NBA player generates his league ~83,000,000 per year, against an average salary of $11,900,000 per year.

The WNBA is a f*cking joke as a business, and that's being very, very polite to say the least.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

article: "… surge in popularity and revenue over the past year for a litany of reasons."

OMG! Yes, unfathomable. LOL. The reason that can't say it's name.

The popularity is due to the phenomenally talented white woman who puts
the natives to shame, spanks them all the way back to the cotton patch.

[SuperLuminal]

The WNBA, like the NBA, serves no rational purpose for either business or entertainment...

They serve only political purposes as a sneaky form of reparations...

[delchiante]

leaving the threat of a lockout or a strike on the not-too-distant horizon if a new CBA can’t be hammered out soon.
......

Won’t bleed money out that way..

Maybe they’ll turn a profit

:)

[iamgalt]

The WNBA has enjoying an historic surge in popularity and revenue“

This is an absurd exaggeration. They have had a small bump because of Clark. If the NBA stopped subsidizing them they go under within a month.

[Blue Highway]

Didn’t know about the NBA ownership and the tax write off aspect. No wonder they survived all these years. I’ve only realized there was a WNBA like a year or 2 ago.

[SunkenCiv]

I already do -- zero.

[Secret Agent Man]

Nope

Not enough lesbians either.

[Secret Agent Man]

Its the real fact

Its not the wnba

Its the wLba

[MinorityRepublican]

Its the wLba

LBA.

You could say the main problem with CC is that she's straight.

[Secret Agent Man]

Straight and white and able to play better than most other women

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Did you mean lesbians?

[KarlInOhio]

If they go on strike, will the other players be allowed to beat up Caitlan Clark with picket signs on the street instead of just bodily running her down on the court?

[GSWarrior]

It’s a well known fact that CC needs to improve her perimeter defense.

[citizen]

Idk much about women’s BB...I stopped watching NBA decades ago and college ball, too.

If they have European women’s BB Clark should go if for no other reason than physical self-preservation. All those dykes got it in for her and the league won’t police.

[Adder]

NBA, to the tune of a few player salaries, ie, $40 mil or so per year...

[dynachrome]

I think they should go on strike. Forever.

[Political Junkie Too]

The league loses 40 million a year

That's CBS Colbert money they're talking about!

-PJ

[Psalm 73]

Watched the 1st quarter of the All-Star game - what a joke.

4-point shots? You've got power forwards cranking them out from logo-land.

And the insufferable "will play for more cash" pleas.

College ball is so much of a better product.