Best of luck to them then. My assumption would be that if they aren't presenting any facts then the facts probably don't support the slogan. If they are getting hosed, I hope they get a better deal but if they want public sentiment to help them they need something more than t-shirts.
The league has never turned a profit and is kept afloat by the NBA.
In general, business owners at some point took on substantial risks, in a way that most/all employees never did or will. Should them deciding how they allocate that wealth to support the success of their franchise be subject to the free market or dictated by some outside force? Why is someone playing a sport for a living supposed to provide them any implied rights greater that someone working at Amazon, for example? Seriously trying to understand the line of thinking.
Again a quick google search. Amazon has 1.56 million employees. The NFL has 1,696 players. Slices are just bigger in pro sports.
Thanks for the sincere response. I struggle with coming up with a "right" answer on issues like this. On the one hand, I don't want anyone telling me what to do with money that I've earned, and generally believe in free markets while recognizing that trickle down is BS. Even between sports I can consider the idea that football is very physically demanding/damaging while also holding onto the idea that they are free to choose their profession.
I nominate Sophie Cunningham.
Yes. The guys/girls doing the work deserve to get ALL of the money in this industry and all others.
My guess is they'll wind up roughly doubling the $60,000 minimum and $147,000 average salaries. Which isn't bad money. I also predict the networks paying these fees are going to lose their a** on the deal.
How isn't it? They are asking for a salary not based on the market value of their services, but instead on what they perceive to be just and deserved.
But they are not asking tax payers for the money, they are asking a private industry for more money . Your assertion is silly.
I guess you are using a different definition of "political" than I am. Businesses make political decisions all the time that have nothing to do with taxpayer money. It's not a bad thing.
The same reason colleges sponsor women's basketball and a bunch of other unprofitable sports. It's good politics.
The owners of the NBA are shrewd. There’s some form of compensation or expected future compensation potentially coming back to them.
I think they have done quite a bit of that. Sounds like the league needs to help them get more side endorsements,
Yes - exactly my point.
We used our allotment too quickly
I don't watch much NBA although I respect the incredible talent required to play in that league. I prefer watching State play and I have other sports I prefer (football, baseball, soccer--that's enough). The WNBA, a league that has talented women still has an athletecism deficiency compared to the NBA. I'd have to really have a team I'm emotionally invested in to support the WNBA and I don't. It's not as good as men's college basketball and I already have a team to follow. I'll watch the our gals play because I'm a State fan before I watch WNBA. I do have some interest in watching Caitlin vs the haters but not enough. Plus these women seem to think they're worth more than their actual value based on current interest in the WNBA.
There is certainly some part of their compensation that is arguably a result of values being out of whack, but mainly it's just that their product is very scalable and for products like that, the top .001% of talent can capture an outsized share of the value.
College sports are different or at least they were until recently. I suppose one could argue that the public should now subsidize some pro-sports that lose money but I'm not sure that would fly.
Partly for reputation (although that has worked out terribly as their reward for losing money for decades has been to be villified for not losing more money), partly out of the belief by some that 50% of the population is women, and while it is a risky endeavor, there is a big untapped pool of money if they can get them interested in women's sport at even a fraction of the level of interest by men in men's sports.
Yeah, that is roughly it.
So basically, my fault. Great. I downvoted every post I could. Still need some more though. Where's that Dave Chappell meme when I need it?
It's called Woke Responsibility. They feel the women need the help since they too were discriminated against early in U.S. history. It goes in the "Good Will" account on the books.
I second your nomination and also nominate
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Hahahaha are you equating letting chicks with dicks play sports to wnba players already being over paid?
Same 3 or 4 every time but paindonthurt gets the boot!!
It’s over 11 years and doesn’t fully start until 2026.
Yeah as long as they keep dongs out of women sports all is good bc we aren’t insane.
