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jcmaine72

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13. With what money?

Reply to MichMan (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 24, 2022, 04:57 AM

Jun 2022

No reason the starting salary for a male NBA player is $1 million a season, while the average salary for all female WNBA players is only $108k. The WNBA minimum is $60k.

Yes, there is. The NBA generates almost $8 billion a year in revenue while the WNBA generates a shade under $60 million.

If the average starting salary (or salary period) per player in the WNBA was artificially elevated to $1 million per year without an significantly higher revenue stream to back it up, the WNBA would operate at such a massive loss that the NBA would probably dump it altogether.

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Most Americans support gender equity in sports scholarships, poll finds [View all] BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 OP

There is no women's comparable to men's college football Deminpenn Jun 2022 #1

Well as you know, they have been trying to work through BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #2

Need pay equity in other sports too MichMan Jun 2022 #3

Pro sports is different than college athletics Deminpenn Jun 2022 #5

I agree BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #7

With what money? jcmaine72 Jun 2022 #13

Merge the revenues and combine the players in the same bargaining unit MichMan Jun 2022 #14

Apples and oranges Deminpenn Jun 2022 #4

"Trying to equal out college scholarships between men and women is problematic" BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #6

The schools even it out by offering some womens' sports but Jose Garcia Jun 2022 #10

If education were no cost to everyone I wonder what would happen to college sports. twodogsbarking Jun 2022 #8

As capitalists BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #9

College athletes can now be paid through endorsements MichMan Jun 2022 #11

They "know nothing at all" about the law that they are angry at? I know who to blame for this. Initech Jun 2022 #12