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re: "How Griner's case highlights the WNBA's pay equity issue"
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:36 am to EZE Tiger Fan
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:36 am to EZE Tiger Fan
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:38 am to EZE Tiger Fan
The WNBA is an awful product and doesn't deserve to be highly compensated. The worst G-League team would destroy a WNBA team, as would a bad D-III men's team.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:39 am to 777Tiger
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Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:39 am to Free888
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as would a bad D-III men's team.
you're giving the dikes too much credick, most boys hs basketball teams would wreck shop in the WNBA
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:42 am to stout
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The Phoenix Mercury center’s detainment and conviction in Russia for cannabis possession has become a symbol of the pay-equity issue plaguing the WNBA, where even stars like Griner — a WNBA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time All-Star — travel overseas during their WNBA offseason for salaries worth more than four or five times what they earn at home.
I never heard of this woman until she broke Russian law.
This post was edited on 8/7/22 at 12:43 pm
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:45 am to Pandy Fackler
My man Pandy! How's it going?
That was seriously the first time you heard of her? She was a big name in Women's college basketball when she played at Baylor.
That was seriously the first time you heard of her? She was a big name in Women's college basketball when she played at Baylor.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:46 am to LSUBoo
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WNBA avg attendance 6700
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higher than id expect to be honest
Probably majority free tickets.
Might as well give away and hope for concession $$.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:46 am to Pandy Fackler
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I never heard of this woman until broke Russian law.
it's stupid to even act like they had an argument in this farce but up until the late 60s it was pretty common for NFL players to have second jobs in the off season to make ends meet, I met a guy that's in the NFL HoF and was on the first two SB championship teams that sold cars in the off season
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:47 am to Ikneauxnuffin
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It is currently estimated that the WNBA generates approximately $60 million in revenue, while $12.3 million of that revenue is distributed to its players
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:48 am to CocomoLSU
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The OP title is correct though, WNBA pay is definitely not equitable or has equity. Because equity is defined as what is “fair and impartial.” And since the WNBA literally loses money, they should be paid nothing and the league should fold. Yet people like Griner are making multiple hundred thousand dollars, despite the league losing money. That’s definitely not equitable.
League minimum is $58k and change. Why didn’t Brit take a pay cut so all of the WNBA athletes could make the same amount?
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:52 am to OweO
You have to be a pretty big sports junky to be familiar with the womens college basketball scene. Most people that post on this board were probably familiar but if you had polled a bunch of randos very few would have known who she was prior to being arrested.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:52 am to tduecen
Damn.. Average NBA ticket price is $89.. Average WNBA ticket is $17.
But the NBA revenue is $7.4B and the average salary is $6.4M. And NBA players have more value in general.. How many people are going out and buying shoes because a WNBA player is wearing them?
But the NBA revenue is $7.4B and the average salary is $6.4M. And NBA players have more value in general.. How many people are going out and buying shoes because a WNBA player is wearing them?
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:53 am to JetsetNuggs
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Seeing as the WNBA loses money every year and is propped up by the NBA, one could make the case that they deserve no money
This is the world we live in. The NBA created it, ESPN props it up, but the rest of society gets blamed for all its shortcomings.
Someone like Katie Lou Samuelson is portrayed as a freedom fighter, despite being only 25 years old, and making $80K in a part-time job for a company that has never been profitable.
In reality, she’s a greedy, disconnected, zoomer. Or at least that’s how the rest of her generation is portrayed, despite earning much less than she does.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:54 am to stout
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Before the Sparks’ home game against the Chicago Sky
If this wasn’t an article about the WNBA I’d have no idea what league those teams played in. Maybe that’s why they don’t make the big bucks.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:56 am to SoFla Tideroller
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These women are going to push this to where, inevitably, some grandstanding progressive congressman will start pushing legislation “to level the playing fields”.
They won't because the NBA has a CBA negotiated by a union. If the legislators want to move from virtue signaling and symbolic bills into actual meaningful legislation, they are going to have to unwind a lot of the labor laws they promote so much.
That's why this isn't a real push for this other than soundbites.
This is a "American society is terrible b/c THEY don't support women's sports" and not "the NBA is terrible because they make more money" argument.
This post was edited on 8/7/22 at 9:57 am
Posted on 8/7/22 at 9:56 am to stout
That's a Man
Posted on 8/7/22 at 10:03 am to 777Tiger
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I met a guy that's in the NFL HoF and was on the first two SB championship teams that sold cars in the off season
Jackie Moon had to use the profits off of his one-hit wonder "Love Me Sexy" just to keep the Flint Tropics going until the ABA was absorbed by the NBA.
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