re: How long before the WNBA finally dies?

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The WNBA has been a charity case for so long they run it like a club not a business. Hence why they are fumbling Caitlin Clark.

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Engelbert has desperately tried to make it a business. The NBA picked her (former US Deloitte head) for a reason and the players think she's a greedy penny pincher for that same reason. Unfortunately she's just not the personality you want running a sports league and an even worse fit for one with so many unhinged / delusional players

Thing is even if it remains an unprofitable failure, WNBA player salaries are so low that the magnitude of the failure just doesn't punish the NBA all that much. NBA subsidies for the entire league have historically ranged from $15-50m a year. Over 20 NBA players make $50m+ annually on their own

The NBA would rather (and have begun to) shift more of that check writing to new owners willing to waste their own money for social credit, but even if they stayed on the hook it amounts to just an annoying mandatory charity donation of ~0.3% of league revenue

But not sure they’ll need to. The last 3 franchise fees alone (a combined $750m) could fund league losses for decades

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The NBA would rather (and have begun to) shift more of that check writing to new owners willing to waste their own money for social credit, but even if they stayed on the hook it amounts to just an annoying mandatory charity donation of ~0.3% of league revenue

But not sure they’ll need to. The last 3 franchise fees alone (a combined $750m) could fund league losses for decades

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Yeah. The people that talk about it losing money the loudest dont seem to grasp the numbers/math. They probably just heard it somewhere and repeat it ad nauseum

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Then tonight the Fever coach making her dumbass comments about not knowing the difference between a man and woman and the Portland coach saying he would welcome men to the game.

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Liberals always always fly too close to the Sun with their virtue signaling.