Correct, you are only paid what you agree to be paid by your contract with your employer. In this case, the WNBA is in a position of loss of 40 million bucks. For there to be money to be paid to the employees, the enterprise has to have the revenues and income to pay them. The WNBA does not have those revenues and refuses to protect its assets (the top player). They deserve to go out of business post haste. Then let them make new T-shirts.