Posted on 07/19/2025 7:05:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The WNBA has enjoying an historic surge in popularity and revenue over the past year for a litany of reasons. Now the players are hoping to cash in with a new collective bargaining agreement.
Unfortunately for the players, that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon. Talks have stalled between the WNBA and the players' union, 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.
Amid the stalled talks, the WNBA players decided to protest the league's unwillingness to bend to their demands. At the WNBA All-Star Game today, the players came out onto the court wearing black t-shirts that said "Pay Us What You Owe Us."
The message was heard loud and clear by fans. Unfortunately for the players, the response has been pretty overwhelmingly negative. It has long been asserted that the WNBA has been operating a loss for decades and has never turned a profit.
So when fans saw players protesting their pay, many laughed at them and pointed out that the WNBA doesn't even have the money to give them any higher salaries to begin with.
"Name another multi-million dollar business that has been around since 1996 and NEVER turned even $1 in profit. In 29 years. I'll be waiting," one user declared.
"When will they pay the NBA what they owe them?? This league would’ve gone bankrupt long ago without the NBA losing money to keep them afloat," wrote another.
"The league loses 40 million a year so the players are lucky to get paid any money at all to play," a third mocked.
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“””I’d rather watch beach volleyball.”””
I’d rather watch paint dry.
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.
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...
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
:)
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.
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.
I already do -- zero.
Nope
Not enough lesbians either.
Its the real fact
Its not the wnba
Its the wLba
LBA.
You could say the main problem with CC is that she's straight.
Straight and white and able to play better than most other women
Did you mean lesbians?
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?
It’s a well known fact that CC needs to improve her perimeter defense.
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.
NBA, to the tune of a few player salaries, ie, $40 mil or so per year...
I think they should go on strike. Forever.
That's CBS Colbert money they're talking about!
-PJ
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.
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