State Senator from Connecticut so even though it’s a clown take he might pick up votes for promoting the UConn grad
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There are real issues here where the NBA is holding the WNBA back from being a more profitable league and in turn being able to pay their players more. Do people just think it’s a coincidence that female professional leagues pay more overseas in every major female sport? An easy example is that the NBA owns all promotional rights for the WNBA, so they are unable to negotiate their own advertising and media deals. Because of this they get tacked on to NBA deals as no value added, where they produce a lot of value for their league if they controlled their own rights.
It’s easy to make jokes, but there are systemic issues holding back female athletes and their leagues ability to seek fair compensation.
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Im sure there are issues. None of them benefit from presenting a dumb comparison between Lebron James and Sue Bird.
wnba ratings aren’t good enough for as much as I think you think
aren’t they around bowling ratings, those guys don’t get shit either.
this whole equal pay stuff, the US women soccer team argued for it then when looked into it, they were actually making more than the men were, so they got offered even and got super upset about that. Tennis, they now get paid the same despite working less. Which is unfair to the men, who drive more money to the sport.
idk the economics regarding wnba salaries (other than the wnba does lose money), but many other places don’t have things like salary caps or luxury taxes, so the yankees or w/e equivalent or someoen who dgaf about losing a shit ton of money can do so.
In Europe women’s teams have many advantages. I imagine we’re basically just talking about soccer/basketball. That in Europe these teams are just the Barcelona, Arsenal etc women’s teams vs some random team playing in some random place is huge. If WNBA teams were LA Lakers women, played in staples and had been doing so for a while that would be huge imo.
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you mean the LA sparks which plays in staples in the wnba?
If they were the Lakers not sparks I think that would have substantial marketing value.
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There are systemic reasons holding the ratings back too. If you want to hear a good discussion around why women’s sports are held back in the US, this podcast episode is a good listen.
Another point worth considering
https://twitter.com/danmurphyespn/status/1435984454850424832?s=21
https://twitter.com/danmurphyespn/status/1436012488303202304?s=21
The NBA should heavily subsidize WNBA salaries to the point they at least get 50% of revenue like the men. It’s good for their game. It has to be a drop in the bucket to them to pay WNBA players better.
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I’ve done a 180 on the Rosas firing since yesterday, it sounds like he was a huge dickhead. Getting rid of him now instead of letting it fester is probably a sign of competence from Marc Lore, who was leading the effort to investigate him. Optimistic about Gupta and hope he can keep the job.
This is a reasonable point in some ways. The WNBA has a collective bargaining agreement with set salary scales for players and a salary ceiling and floor for teams that is harder than most other pro sports.
If any cap nerds want to deep dive, WNBA CBA and Salary Cap Explained | Statistics, Ranks, Game Logs and more Women's Basketball Insight from Her Hoop Stats
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2020 team floor was ~$1 million, hard cap at ~ $1.3
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No. 1 draft pick in 2020 gets scaled at $68k/season.
-2021 Supermax ( what Bird, Taurasi, and a handful of others make) is ~ $220k/season
Just for context, when Taurasi and Bird played in Russia, on the same team, they both made over a million per season and won European championships on the reg. The downside was that the dude who signed their checks eventually got taken out in a professional hit.
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I was hoping Larry Brown Sports was run by the old coach
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Good. Fuck him.
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So the season hasn’t started yet and we got wiggins won’t get vaxxed, ben simmons refusing to play for the sixers ever again, and married to other people twolves executives banging in the office.
I guess Colangelo didn’t get as far as he did without knowing how to cover his ass.
https://twitter.com/uninterrupted/status/1441570647868645378?s=20
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