What amount they're realistically asking for?
Also, wasn't Angel Reese the one who said they deserve to get paid like NBA players?
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Why do white people love Caitlin Clark more then any other WNBA player
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Also, wasn't Angel Reese the one who said they deserve to get paid like NBA players?
^^^
Agreed I think Caitlin threw them the alley oop of all time (Angel too to be fair by association). Its too soon to make doomsday predictions.
The most important thing is for them to build and sustain and grow because of Caitlin and the positive/negative exposure.
*I still think the NEED to make some type of peace around all this - UNLESS the media experts really think the hate jealously and racism is actually HELPING sell the product?
I appreciate the video King, and I was aware of the ask. The issue boils down to two things that gets in the way of the request:
1. The disparity in revenue is crazy…about 10-11 billion for the NBA vs $200 million for the W. Fifty times more profitable. Again…crazy.
2. Plum was talking about revenue share, but wait: the NBA negotiated their cut to about 52.5% WNBA is about 22.5%. Go back to the figures in the first point and if they are given a similar split as the NBA, the league would hemorrhage even more if that were even possible, due to the WNBA always being in the red. The W cannot increase their own profits, so why ask for a cut of something technically negative?
The WNBA is that friend that invites you out to lunch, orders from the right side of the menu with two apps, a neat drink and a dessert, and then lets you know that they left their wallet at home.
Please, compared that to their sales vs hers.
I don't believe that at all.
What countries she has fans from?
^^^ like I said she is the raising tide
but now if dudes are telling me they STILL losing money? So then yeah f**k it scrap the whole thing, i guess?
Maybe she isn't as powerful as we thought.
But I think she has been great for the league and the sport globally and inspired a new generation of women AND men to follow the sport
and that her spark should be inspiring to keep the league going.
But if it really aint do sh*t?
Whelp...
When did I say she wasn't?
She just so happens to come into the league at the right time because no way she would've been that high up in the standings with most jerseys sold.
Nike
State Farm
Eli Lilly
Wilson (first since Jordan to have a signature ball)
Gatorade
Bose, Buick, Hy-Vee, H&R Block, Topps, Shoot-A-Way, and Goldman Sachs,
Hy-Vee: She even has her own cereal, "Caitlin's Crunch Time," with the grocery chain.
The fact that the media talks about it now, and the wnba thread on here is multiple times longer than any wnba discussion we ever had, says it all.
Caitlin does have a fanbase, and by extension, the WNBA has a fanbase now.
I just answered your question about her popping before being drafted into the WNBA.
This is what it’s about.
Here's a breakdown of revenue sharing in major North American leagues:
Notice a difference?
That’s it.
Here's a breakdown of revenue sharing in major North American leagues:
- NFL: Players receive 48% of all league revenue, according to MDPI.
- NBA: Players receive between 49% and 51% of basketball-related income.
- NHL: Players receive 50% of league revenue.
- MLB: Players receive around 40% of the league's revenue, according to Tennishead.
- WNBA: Players receive a significantly smaller share, around 9.3% of total league revenue, reports MarketWatch.
Notice a difference?
That’s it.
Celtics arena ? Sold out
That's cool and all but I've seen way more with NBA players having a longer list. I'm just saying, she will never be on the same level as an NBA player when it comes to getting paid having endorsement deals especially the top NBA players.
A bunch of bandwagons because there's not enough teams to cheer for nor most states not having a WNBA team yet.
I promise you, I'll be rooting for philly WNBA team keeping it local.
All those things come back to one person though, the Caitlin Clark fanbase is the one buying all her merchandise buying up the tickets when she plays, all you have to do is check out the WNBA ALLSTAR game that just happened, once she was ruled out the ticket prices dropped
2+ billion over 11 years.
When you add the new TV revenue + sponsorships + ticket sales + merchandise + expansion fees, they could be in the black next year. So they won't be in the negative anymore.
The current WNBA CBA expires this year. Now is the time to try to get the money that's coming.
got it! but that was NOT what I said or meant. I was responding to @pookie about her complicated relationship to the league. The point I was making was the WNBA existed for her to have this continued career she has now. Without the blood and sweat from the OGs of the WNBA she would be playing in the Ukraine right now regardless of how well she played in college.
So in that regard she would not being popping like that after she graduated WITHOUT the WNBA being in existence.
And at the same time her career BOTH college and pro has lifted the entire league. To a point where they have a brighter future than BEFORE Caitlin arrived on the basketball scene.
Who owns TESLA?
That's chump change to what the NBA gets.
But I'm sure their salary will increase but we can't say the same about profits with only 1 WNBA player bringing in money.
Bro how in the f**k do you want me to reasonably argue AGAINST that?
I can't.
But what they gonna do when Caitlin gone? If Caitlin never wins a ring? If Caitlin becomes injury prone.
They gonna let this the players all hate her narrative continue? That aint gonna HELP.
They gotta make some type of peace.
So Caitlin can be a true ambassador to the sport for ALL PEOPLE.
Even when she stops playing.
So in MY OPINION that means stop the Caitlin hate stop the Angel hate.
And focus on OTHER players.
Be fun, cute, sexy, cool, engaging and don't be afraid of conflict.
But don't feed too much into the racial stuff. This aint the time for that.
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As far as the thread topic.
She's good at basketball, fun to watch and white.
That's why white people love Caitlin Clark.
Non-white Basketball fans like her because she's good at basketball, and fun to watch.
If your social media runs your world and dictator thinking, you won't like Caitlin Clark.
She's good at basketball, fun to watch and white.
That's why white people love Caitlin Clark.
Non-white Basketball fans like her because she's good at basketball, and fun to watch.
If your social media runs your world and dictator thinking, you won't like Caitlin Clark.
They are still losing money because only one player out of 150 is bringing in big money, if the NBA stopped subsidizing the WNBA today they'd fold in a year. The whole rising tides thing doesn't apply in the Caitlin Clark WNBA situation because her fanbase thrive off her being the only WNBA worth watching in their eyes, they say it all the time "IF CC NOT PLAYING IM NOT WATCHING"
She's in her 2nd year and already has as many endorsements as someone like Jimmy Butler who is at the end of his career
@therealjondoe you better never tell me sh*t again.
Cause you got me spending a Sunday afternoon on my phone defending Caitlin f*cking Clark
@REDLINE save me I'm out.
I'm taking the kids to the park again
Cause you got me spending a Sunday afternoon on my phone defending Caitlin f*cking Clark
@REDLINE save me I'm out.
I'm taking the kids to the park again
but like I said the NBA KNOWS that! They BEEN knew this.
@therealjondoe you better never tell me sh*t again.
Cause you got me spending a Sunday afternoon on my phone defending Caitlin f*cking Clark
@REDLINE save me I'm out.
I'm taking the kids to the park again
Do you know how much the NBA donates to charity every year, in their eyes the WNBA falls into that category, also I added to my original comment read it again
How long until the nba became profitable?
I think it's disrespectful how the same attention wasn't given to the ones who paved the way before she entered the league which makes it racially based of people saying she's a "GREAT WHITE HOPE" that overshadows the others who have talent as well but aren't white.
I was just making my point that they talked about her a lot on every network and having her in commercials when she was about to get drafted into the league which everyone followed her to the WNBA.
But we gotta look at it as the fans think white athletes are more talented than our own. Angel Reese has broken records in her own way playing a different postion but there's a lot of people who think she's trash or shouldn't be an all-star.
But if caitlin clark was to leave the WNBA today, you wouldn't hear about these sold-out arenas anymore because people rather support a white athlete no matter what.
So, that's why people saying she saved the WNBA regardless of who came before her because nobody wasn't paying attention to the WNBA at the time nor back then like they are now.
The difference is all those North American leagues generate billions of dollars every year except one
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