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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: BradyLS

“…why don’t they divorce the NBA so they can get half of everything they own? 🤪”

Post of the week! You win the internet for a day.


41 posted on 07/20/2025 4:37:29 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: shelterguy

Without Caitlin Clark to get people to be interested they are worth about two bits, and they make that off the backs of NBA players.


42 posted on 07/20/2025 5:08:52 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Her teammate, Sophie Cunningham, is easy on the eyes too. From the affair with the Suns CEO, it appears she is also a breeder.


43 posted on 07/20/2025 5:31:46 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: Blue Highway

If I were forced to watch either a NBA or WNBA game, I would pick the girls. The NBA is ridiculous and a complete waste of time. Plus Lebron is cracked as he apes intelligence.


44 posted on 07/20/2025 5:40:27 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: Blue Highway

The NBA and the owners of NBA teams have been subsidizing the WNBA since its inception. They are finally at the point. They’re tired of doing so. So it’s very possible the WNBA could cease to exist. There’s no money to pay these people more than what they’re getting.


45 posted on 07/20/2025 5:43:29 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: citizen

Usually professional athletes want to play against the best competition. What makes you think she wouldn’t be targeted by “angry black lesbians.” in Europe?


46 posted on 07/20/2025 7:08:55 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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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..

47 posted on 07/20/2025 7:18:10 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: shelterguy
Ok. Here's a buck and a half. Now go fix me a sammich.

Shame on you! Everyone knows you wait until AFTER you get the sammich to pay for it.

48 posted on 07/20/2025 7:20:57 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

49 posted on 07/20/2025 7:29:34 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: MinorityRepublican

The original WNBA is now just a Welfare for Black Trannies Assocation. (WBTA). On any given night you can see men who pretent to be chicks with balls playing with themselves on the basketball court of appeals for perverts and democrats.


50 posted on 07/20/2025 7:35:40 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Sacajaweau
They don’t bring in the money that the men do. Why should they benefit from the men’s income.

Sadly, it worked for the US women's soccer team

51 posted on 07/20/2025 8:22:17 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: verum ago; Blue Highway
Why does the NBA need a 29 year tax write off?

Unless their tax rate is more than 100%, the WNBA is an unjustifiable business loss.

52 posted on 07/20/2025 9:17:59 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

When the WNBA’s higher future earnings depend on essentially one player that the other players and the officials are intent on pushing out of the game, demanding more pay seems a bit silly.


53 posted on 07/20/2025 9:27:53 AM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe |Hom)
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To: BipolarBob

You are absolutely correct Bob.
Only reason to watch this shit show that is the WNBA is to watch
Clark.
And the black Les beans are so jealous they are trying their best to hurt her.
Go to Europe and let the league die as it should.


54 posted on 07/20/2025 2:04:48 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Well, it's not sustainable because CC is constantly injured. So at this rate, she'll be forced to retire.

I remember when "another Clark" -- Bobby Clarke -- was getting roughed up in his first couple of years in the NHL and the Philadelphia Flyers built a wall around him with the biggest, toughest hockey players that they could find. The NHL was still in the mindset of the "Original Six" when skill players like Ted Lindsay & Gordie Howe also had to be ready to drop the gloves, because, let them play.

If I were the Indiana Fever I'd be building a wall around Caitlyn Clark. If the WNBA thinks they have a problem now just wait until a "hockey game" breaks out during their feature telecast and they start carrying bodies off the court.

55 posted on 07/20/2025 5:26:51 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Most men don’t like to watch homely women play mediocre basketball.
And most women don’t like to watch women play any sport.


56 posted on 07/21/2025 7:26:32 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969
Most men don’t like to watch homely women play mediocre basketball.

And most women don’t like to watch women play any sport.

Caitlin Clark is the exception. The league is not sustainable without her.

57 posted on 07/21/2025 7:50:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Exactly. Caitlin Clark is the one player who isn’t playing mediocre basketball.


58 posted on 07/22/2025 12:57:22 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: GSWarrior

I don’t think Euro leagues would allow it.


59 posted on 07/22/2025 8:41:36 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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