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265 sats \ 4 replies \ @Cje95 23 Jan \ on: Top sports agent says WNBA salaries are 'blatantly unfair' to players Stacker_Sports
Wild take esp since the league has been losing money for almost all of its existence. The NBA was keeping them afloat for over two decades. Some teams have turned the corner in recent years but the league as a whole still looses money.
Where I do see some room for change (granted I was reading the WNBA wiki so it could be wrong) is with the revenue generated since only 40% goes to the teams and players with the rest going to the NBA and outside investors. Now the league expected to still lose $50 million this year so this change would be much more long term than short term but it is still a change we should see nonetheless.
Some WNBA players have been smart and have pointed out that they want to get the same revenue share as the NBA and part of me thinks hey do it and if you are not generating crap and you are hemorrhaging money well it will relate in your salary. First though you would also need to factor in paying back everyone that kept you employed for all these years but I do think only getting roughly 20% of the revenue is a little on the light side.
I broadly agree with you. I don't really agree with "First though you would also need to factor in paying back everyone that kept you employed for all these years".
I don't think this should factor in. NBA kept WNBA afloat in hopes it would expand the basketball fanbase to include more women and the women's game would grow and eventually be profitable for the NBA. Or they did it for good PR. Either way it was an investment from the NBA like any company would invest in R and D for a new business line. I don't think current players should be penalized financially because the business line sucked for the last 20 years.
But I do agree they really shouldn't be whining too much because no one watched that league until last season when Clark arrived.
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So I was looking at the whole payback idea from the point of if they want to shift to how other leagues are where the NBA isnt a party. More or less give the NBA its investment back so that they are not a party when deciding how to split the pie.
Now I know that they would never do something like this because it is a huge cost to them but in my mind if the players want to treat the league like how the NBA is treated then you have to remove the outside investors/NBA and just go with the owners and players. If that makes sense.
Yeah not a huge fan of reparations.
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