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Everyone Said The Same Thing About WNBA Players' 'Pay Us What You Owe Us' Protest
The Spun ^ | Jul 19, 2025 | Tzvi Machlin

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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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; hategroup; payuswhatyouoweus; racists; sports; wnba
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To: ScottHammett

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

I’d rather watch paint dry.


21 posted on 07/19/2025 7:48:41 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Blue Highway
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.
22 posted on 07/19/2025 7:51:46 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
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.

23 posted on 07/19/2025 7:52:22 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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...


24 posted on 07/19/2025 7:55:04 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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

:)


25 posted on 07/19/2025 8:01:06 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: dfwgator

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.


26 posted on 07/19/2025 8:03:00 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: verum ago

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.


27 posted on 07/19/2025 8:11:33 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
I already do -- zero.

28 posted on 07/19/2025 8:31:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: dfwgator

Nope

Not enough lesbians either.


29 posted on 07/19/2025 8:41:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: shelterguy

Its the real fact

Its not the wnba

Its the wLba


30 posted on 07/19/2025 8:42:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Its the wLba

LBA.

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

31 posted on 07/19/2025 8:44:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

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


32 posted on 07/19/2025 8:46:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dfwgator

Did you mean lesbians?


33 posted on 07/19/2025 8:56:57 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: MinorityRepublican

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?


34 posted on 07/19/2025 9:31:08 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: Old West Conservative

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


35 posted on 07/19/2025 9:47:13 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

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.


36 posted on 07/19/2025 10:15:24 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Blue Highway

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


37 posted on 07/20/2025 3:16:04 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think they should go on strike. Forever.


38 posted on 07/20/2025 3:33:57 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The league loses 40 million a year

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

-PJ

39 posted on 07/20/2025 3:38:42 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: MinorityRepublican
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.

40 posted on 07/20/2025 4:15:16 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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