Of course he would have, we would also be sending aid to Russia instead of Ukraine. He would have done what ever his hero wanted.
you may be right but in my view as it stands she's a prisoner ...they may use her as a hostage for leverage but she also may have put herself in this position by careless assumption...why the heck did she wait so long to get out of that country and why would anyone want to work there in the offseason? Russia has a terrible reputation of not paying players and terrible conditions for basketball players in general.
Rod Strickland coached there and said it was clowntown...of all the overseas teams you could sign with would you ever choose Russia over Spain? In the winter season?
news to me....looks like she is the one ending up paying though in the end. There was a scandal with one of the men's teams not paying foreign players a few years ago and I read the men didn't trust the Russian franchises to actually cut their checks...maybe that's all changed.
Brittany's salary in Russia was nearly five times her WNBA salary. I think only star players made such salaries though. I remember hearing that signing WNBA stars is about prestige for the huge companies that own the teams. I can't imagine we'll ever see another WNBA player return to playing hoops in Russia during the WNBA offseason.
She was being paid millions to play in Russia. She only make like $250k in the WNBA. Pisses me off that our WNBA players have to deal with that bullshit.
I think the bigger story here is how horribly we pay our WNBA players... There are 144 players in the WNBA. $1 million per year should be the minimum annual salary per player. The Lakers TV contract alone would cover that. But the WNBA loses about $10 mil per year... So...
Disagree. Title 9 is a good thing. Keeping women beat down and with nothing to dream about is not. Paying professional women athletes scraps is despicable. Each NBA player should pay 10% WNBA payroll tax. This should be structured so as not to impact players who live in high tax states as much. Ideally, remove the benefit of signing with teams in states with taxes arranged differently, so everybody pays the same tax regardless of which state their team is in, and the WNBA gets 10% of NBA payroll to pay their players.
This is the real life version of "you have to pass to a girl on the team before you can shoot the ball". The average WNBA salary is $128k a year. That's not bad. To think they are even close to being on the same level as an NBA player is ludicrous.
Nobody said they were on the same level. Or even implied it. $128k while being among the top 0.02% in a very competitive position is a disgrace. If we want them to do well and compete on the world stage it's an incredibly small price to pay. Not to mention it opens up huge opportunities and incentive for girls of all ages. Letting the WNBA die should not be an option. And paying the players as much as a garbage man who gets to come home every night and doesn't have to travel the country or deal with constant media attention is a joke. We should want the best athletes in the world to come here. I'd fully support tax credits to reimburse nba players for that as well.
Do you think CEO salaries should be capped? They are the top 0.02% in a very competitive position. Most people give zero fucks about the WNBA. Their league pass, is what, $25? Most people won't even know when the finals are (even when they are going on) or can even name who won the championship last year. Most people probably couldn't even name 5 WNBA players. I mean, cool for them they have their league and all, but to artificially boost their salaries for some kind of rah rah we're the same reasons is BS.
How is offering a legitimate minimum level of pay even in the same conversation as capping ceo pay? I don't think ceo pay should necessarily be capped, but income over something like $1 million should be taxed at such high rates that it's not worth earning much more than that... And that should be tied to inflation. It doesn't matter if they care about the WNBA. They care about the NBA. Nobody gives a flying fuck about Keljin Blevins, but he make $500k per year.