The WNBA is the top 0.02% of their profession just in this country. Not exactly easy... And at 0-2 years you're only making like $60k Those jobs you only have to be in the top 10% to make $150-$200k
3 months? The games are the fun part. You don't really think they only work 3 months out of the year do you?
The WNBA season is 3 months. They are free to earn additional money in other leagues in the offseason.
Yep. And risk getting abused, raped, abducted, held hostage, etc... in foreign countries. Good times.
Who is a woman and who isn't? Most male college football and basketball programs lose money. Only big name schools are money makers. And Griner is still a hostage. A Black gender non-conforming married lesbian in a country that brags about persecuting people like her.
personally I think it's wrong to arrest anyone for using or having cannabis products on their person and wrong to persecute people for sexual identity or race but let's be objective here....Pussy Riot was jailed for making rock and roll, where women and men and were jailed for protesting Putin..Putin's political rivals are jailed for running against him....non were black and who knows how many were hetero or not...the issue here is whether Grimes was dumb enough to break the law or whether she's been set up ..Elton John performed there many times without being arrested at the airport..not going to make that assumption. We had just taken a lot of Putin's money away just before this happened so there is a good chance it's political but also a chance she just broke their law and got caught. As it is I hope they let her go and the only thing they've done if it's political is scare off any foreign athletes from accepting contracts there.
According to female players who have gone overseas that stuff happens far more often than here. Hence the whole point of this thread...
People questioned value of WNBA because they don't always draw crowds but neither do men's sports. And none of us know if Griner is guilty. They also frame people.
I think it's noble to want to pay the women as much as the men, but the reality is that their product is not as popular as the mens. Salaries come from revenue so where does this money come from? Does the NBA have an obligation to subsidize the WNBA salaries?
link? Who said this? Griner doesn't seem to think the US is that safe to begin with. https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...nba-stop-playing-national-anthem-this-season/ “Yeah, we’re here to play basketball. But basketball doesn’t mean anything in a world where we can’t just live. We can’t wake up and do whatever we want to do. Go for a run, go to the store to buy some candy, drive your car without the fear of being wrongfully pulled over."
Nobody suggested paying them as much as the men. Just paying them more than a garbage man. Pay them as though they are among the best in the world at what they do. I suggested the NBA players pay enough toward the WNBA to ensure the average WNBA player would make about 30% as much per game as an NBA player. Which would give them about 10% of the annual salary of an NBA player.
Are you talking about specific teams in the NFL/NBA/MLB/etc not drawing crowds or are you talking about other men's sports?
Yeah, I'm sure she totally prefers Russia. Watch the ESPN 30 for 30 Dream On. They touch on it in part 1 at about 16:30 seconds in. They specifically said players talked about physically abusive coaches, sexually abusive coaches, racism, etc... But that kind of thing doesn't make the news over there either. Imagine if a coach slapped a player in the WNBA? Here, that's a big problem. Elsewhere, it's not news... It's just one example, but Sheryl Swoopes hated it in Italy. She chose to come back here and work in a bank instead.
Griner's there, isn't she? She only hates it because she got arrested for having illegal drugs in a country where they are not allowed. Didn't seem to have a problem with it before that. Every place sucks if you get arrested there. And you'd have to pay me to watch a 30 for 30 on the WNBA.
