Lots of fuss being made over Clark's WNBA salary
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I hope Clark torches that league. The crap she has taken from current and former WNBA players is ridiculous.
She won't. She will be playing against players who were all the best player on their college team. It will be the same as when a 5 star recruit starts playing P5 college football. He doesn't keep having the video game numbers he had in HS where he was always the best player on the field.
With all her hype, I'm assuming she'll come in a marked "man". The veterans will likely be eager to put her in her place on the court. Maybe she'll be good enough to do her thing anyway.
I don't know what Clark fans were expecting. Thanks so much for coming? This is competition at the highest level. There are only 12 teams. So, these are the top 150 Women's players in the world. With the attention Clark is getting every guard in the league is itching for a chance to outplay her and get some recognition for themselves.
Yeah, she may have been christened the best ever by the media, but she'll have to earn it in the WNBA. She just might do that, I dunno. The pros aren't gonna hand her anything, though, just b/c she's everyone's fave right now.
As far as the WNBA is concerned, this is their single greatest shot at relevance since the league was founded. Maybe their last shot. They desperately need Clark to be every bit as good as advertised. She boosted women's college basketball ratings by being otherworldly every single game. Will folks consistently tune into WNBA games if she's just really good and not otherworldly?
I don't think the conditions will present itself for her to be like she was at Iowa especially right away. She was the clear #1 player by a lot. Everyone, including the coach deferred to her and let her take all the shots that she wanted. There will be other players on her team looking for shots and if she takes those logo threes she better make them. There will be a lot of team dynamics that she will have to navigate that she hasn't had to deal with before. That's why I think players from programs like a UConn or ours transition better when they go to the league. They are coming from teams where everyone was good.
Kamilla wasn’t eligible for NIL I heard because she isn’t from the United States. I’m not sure how true that is but that’s what I heard!
I believe it is more about where she is from and their government than not being a US citizen. I could be wrong though. But it seems like that is what I heard on the radio or TV.
I'm not an expert but I think it has something to do with her visa. People here on a student visa can't earn money while they are here if I understand correctly.
"At publishing time, the Indiana Fever franchise was brainstorming ways to increase attendance to be able to pay for Clark's salary, including showing men's basketball on the jumbotron during games."
Babylon Bee - Caitlin Clark Becomes Highest-Paid WNBA Player In History With Lucrative Four-Figure Annual Salary
Babylon Bee is the definitive source of fake news you can trust.babylonbee.com
Ergo Dawn’s effusive praise of CC. The lady is doing everything she can to push the envelope for WBB. Very bright lady.
It might be the publicity or lack thereof, moreso than biological differences.
I do agree that the salary gap between the MNBA and the WNBA is valid based on revenues. And this is different than a project management role at say, Dominion Power.
Is there a similar pay gap between MNBA and WNBA coaches and office staff?
Thank you for posting this thoughtful message. It's posts like this one which keeps me engaged on FGF.
Yes, who is that star player on Purdue's MBB team from Canada? Also ineligible for NIL.
Yes. The WNBA players are smart enough not to be asking for a share of the profit because they know there is none.
Yes, sir, they did. I thought about the NFL players because, on the television broadcasts, announcers were fond of mentioning regularly what players did for money in the off-season.
None of the former and current WNBA players want to talk about profit. They know that the WNBA is and has been nothing more than a charity. The players are damn lucky to have a job.
They are fully funded and supported by men. According to some on here in the past, the NBA keeping the WNBA afloat is a smart move for them to help generate interest among women in basketball and grow the NBA's female fan base. Only thing is, women don't give a crap about the WNBA. So I'm not sure how that works.
I suggest that the MNBA underwriting most of the WNBA expenses gives the MNBA a lot of positive publicity.
With who???
I live in a town with a WNBA team. I have never seen a single person wearing a hat, shirt, jersey or anything else related to the team. I chat up sports with a lot of folks as we have all major sports teams. I’ve never had one single person bring up the WNBA.
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What is the MNBA? There is the NBA and the WNBA.
Does the number of additional tickets sold to NBA games or money generated from televised NBA games exceed what would have been generated had the league not subsidized the WNBA? Do the total gains from that enterprise outweigh what is expended for the subsidization?
Foreign players are not allowed to receive NIL money. That is a bigger issue than the WNBA salary structure.
Given the almost complete lack of interest in the WNBA, I have to imagine whatever financial gains the NBA made are negligible at best
If they are actual gains, they can be justified on the strength of that negligibility.
Sometimes people push the absurdity of their point too far that they expose themselves as not even believing in their own position.
