The NBA was the dominant incumbent.
Yeah, I think women add a lot to the sport. They are more fundamental players. Better shooters. Fostering that experience and expertise can only help USA Basketball as a whole.
Yeah this is all fine and good but you can't get me to sit through a WNBA game. It's just not something I'm willing to watch all the time.
Nobody forces anybody to watch sports. Some people watch for the athletic freaks, some people watch for the fundamental skill.
I don't know?
All of that stuff is set up by fundamental basketball. Or it doesn't win.
I do too. I think they are talented athletes. The problem is sports business is about entertainment value. A certain amount of people/population thinks the WNBA is entertaining and that is reflected in their pay. It’s the most simple, straight forward situation.
Exactly. To many, the WNBA simply is not entertaining but there is a block that find it so. That reflects what they will be paid.
Half of NBA teams lose more money than the entire WNBA (before revenue sharing). Is that reflected in their pay as well?
The players salaries are a % of the league income, so yes, their salaries perfectly reflect how the league is doing. The WNBA can share revenue all day long and this is what they get. The NBA as a whole makes money. Because it is entertaining. Because people worldwide love it, buy tickets, buy League Pass, buy merchandise. Nobody is holding revenue back from the WNBA. THe league isnt secretly some massive money maker and the athletes are getting screwed. If anything, the NBA propped it up for a very long time. Which is also fine. But giving out $1M to be nice seems crazy to me. It might even turn people off even more than they are.
But the WNBA is a subsidiary of the NBA. Why is it ok to prop up half of the teams in the NBA but not a fewer number of subsidiary teams?
The teams in the NBA who lose money play against the other teams who make money. They are, in an indirect way, making the league money. Take out half the league and the revenue goes down. The league as a whole is a huge money maker. There are stars on bad teams who might lose money, who fly into a city and the stands are full because they want to watch him.
And getting more women into basketball would increase the talant pool here in the US. Which would help the NBA as well.
Now you're just reaching? Please?
I don’t see how that helps the NBA. Unless it means better women players means better WNBA which means NBA doesn’t have to support it as much?
Because women coach too. They train players. They can be executives. Great ones.
I'd fully support that as well. Though I don't think soccer makes as much money, and the number of players on a team is higher, so there just isn't as much money to go around for each player.
Nobody is arguing that. I'm not sure why you're even saying that.
Looks like your numbers are off by quite a bit...
But let's not look a gift horse in the mouth. Our goal shouldn't be to tear people down, IMO. It should be to use that opportunity to build people up.
This pretty much says they should be paid more. Not exactly sure the breakdown is correct because star players will always command more $'s. It does point to a need for raises at the base level which helps everyone eventually.
