Revenues, on the other hand, should not be confused with profits. But interest is also clearly driven by media: If a network highly values a property, itll market and promote it as a way to build an audience. World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic says male tennis players deserve more money because the spectators love them more, and Indian Wells tournament ex-CEO Raymond Moore astutely observed the women's tour rides "on the coat-tails of the men". If the WNBA Players Association wants to opt out of its current collective bargaining agreement with the league and renegotiate terms, they have to do so by Oct. 31. Grls smh, Lucky Jan 30, 2022 at 3:54 pm, basketball girl Feb 11, 2022 at 10:43 am, Hayden Feb 18, 2022 at 1:56 pm, David Feb 23, 2022 at 9:15 am, Lmao everything he said or typed here were cold hard facts. Yet much progress has been made on this front, and the league has found particularly innovative ways to promote its players, grow its fan base and tap into new revenue streams. WNBA players, who continue to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the league, also have been outspoken about the wage gap between their pay and that of the men's teams. For the sake of the future of the WNBA and its need to stop the top players from skipping entire seasons, maybe the league should want the same thing. The WNBA is 50 years behind in building its brand and working out labor issues. What I mean by that is, the WNBA has a total of 3 rounds with only 12 picks, while the NBA has 2 rounds with a total of 60 picks. And while thats not a dollar amount to sniff at, these women only have so long to earn money off their athletic ability. https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21701, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21599, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21584, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21591, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21594, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21598, https://thebablueprint.com/26107/opinion/equal-pay-wont-happen-for-wnba/#comment-21653. Elizabeth Cambage #8 of the Dallas Wings in action during a recent Dallas Wings Vs New York Liberty. [+] Prior to this season, Cambage last played in the WNBA in 2013. In August, WNBA president Lisa Borders said, While I encourage WNBA players to speak out on issues important to them, it is equally important that they understand the realities of our business., Nows a good time for players to advocate for themselves because the product in the WNBA has never been better.. This is something that the 150-ish WNBA players have been fighting to change for quite some time. In fact, theWNBAs big television contractwas itself a byproduct of the channelreworking its agreement with their male counterpart. Lets look beyond skill and size. And although we don't know every player's salary, it has been reported that average salary is about $75,000. 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With a net worth estimated to be somewhere between $5 million and $17 million dollars, Brittney Griner might be the highest paid female basketball ever. Here are three arguments of which you may not have thought. As many may not know, men get paid way more money than womens basketball does. She also said it would be a letdown of all the work the founders of the league put into it if the current players decided to forgo the league for increased earnings.. The men tend to play to impress or are just out there for the results, and we play for the process. Djokovic, also top ranked, won one Grand Slam, seven titles and the year-end ATP championships. , in large part, for the financial security it provides. A post shared by Kelsey Plum (@kelseyplum10). Thats right: These professional athletes have second jobs. Join now to unlock comments, browse ad-free, and access exclusive content from your favorite FDRLST writers. Last week, this exciting season of the WNBA ended after the Seattle Storm swept the Washington Mystics to win their third championship. Mar 1, 2023. 1. The yearly revenue is 7.92 billion dollars for the NBA, and the WNBA is 60 million dollars. So, I think people support us and recognize that women work too hard to get the little pay they do, but wheres the change? In essence, the owners arent making money off the league. I fault the narrative claiming that one group deserves as much money as another group solely because of gender the narrative that the utopic desire for gender equality trumps market forces. Of course TV ratings themselves are less important to this topic than dollars attached to theirtelevision contracts, and to theWNBAs credit, ESPN doubled the value of their contract with the league to $25 million a year in 2016. To watch all these spoiled assholes get their pay knocked down to WNBA levels would have each and every one of them blowing a top about why they should be paid more, to which then the feminists and WNBA players would chime in about how unfair it is. With top players earning more than $1 million nearly quadruple what they can make as a base salary in the WNBA Griner, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and Jonquel Jones have been . And theyre not done. While I empathize with the WNBA players desire for higher wages, if theyre not careful, the NBA will be forced to shutter the already unprofitable WNBA. Many. However, the WNBA actually loses $10 million a year as an organization, with costs outweighing revenue. In her defense, Wilson is a 21-year-old athlete who probably hasnt thought a great deal about economics. 53 points is something that happens every week in the NBA and they have guys that are 66 to 69 guarding them. Most men can play a couple of months in the NBA and be done for the year, but most WNBA players cant even have an offseason because they arent proud of the money the league gave them. Since the NBA formed the WNBA I can't see how they could not just pay the men less to pay the women more. Elizabeth Cambage -- the star center for the Dallas Wings -- recently made this observation on Twitter about pay in the WNBA: "today I learnt NBA refs make more than a WNBA player and the 12th man on a NBA team makes more than a WHOLE WNBA team.". If you've ever gone to a high school football game, you've probably seen some of the . The latest example of this economic fallacy emerged when Aja Wilson of theWNBAs Las Vegas Acestook to Twitter to pokeLeBronJamessnew contract with the Las AngelesLakers. Sports are a revenue-driven industry! well these wnba players are going on live tv saying they want a pay increase by comparing themselves to the nba salaries. I have limited time and resources. This is the first time salaries for women in the WNBA will achieve an average salary that is six figures (Glamour). It has been reported that more than 60% of the WNBA's players play in a league outside the United States when the WNBA season ends. Bradley Beal, who is also a professional player who currently plays for the Washington Wizards, is always finding ways to support the Washington Mystics. She is a WNBA champion, a 3-time Russian . Except I dont know a single person who believes that women should get paid less than men for being as productive while doing the same job. And it also appears -- in response to McCoughtry's comment -- the WNBA should be more competitive with leagues around the world. Proclaiming that women should get paid as much as men is a great way for a man to demonstrate his feminist bona fides. Lisa Borders, president of theWNBA, has even directlypointed to sexismas a driving reason for the discrepancies between the earnings ofmale and female players. Theyre making the most of it while they can. However, you cannot have equal pay when you dont make enough money to have the same amount of pay. Cant pay them the same as NBA players, thats just daylight fraud, Nate Jun 3, 2022 at 3:22 pm. Last year, total attendance for the WNBAs 12 teams reached 1,574,078, with an average attendance of 7,716 fans a new high for the 21-year-old league. All rights reserved. So even relative to other non-major professional leagues, theWNBAstruggles for relevance. So is the opportunity to grow the game. Per Deseret News, this could simply be economics: The WNBA season is shorter, and in general, the game draws far fewer eyeballs than the rival male league. If we also assume that what players have done so far (prior to Friday's games) allows us to forecast each player's final production of wins in 2018 (wins produced can be measured with the player's box score statistics), then here are the fifteen most valuable players in the WNBA (in terms of their forecasted season wins production and the estimate of their salary if the WNBA was paying players like the NBA): It certainly appears that if the WNBA paid like the NBA, the top WNBA players would be paid better than what we think the top NBA referees are receiving. If Im going to spend my time and money to watch professional basketball, why would I choose the Mystics over the Wizards? The league average in 2022 is just $102,751 for WNBA players. The most points scored in an NBA game was 100 points and the most scored in a game was 53 points. And we need more people at our table to fight with us, she told Wealthsimple. As someone who has studied the WNBA for years, only about half of WNBA franchises finish the season in the black, a market segment worth around $830 million, have argued that interest drives coverage, Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Committee Member - MNF Research Advisory Committee, PhD Scholarship - Uncle Isaac Brown Indigenous Scholarship. The figures used came from ESPN ranking and salary lists for NBA and WNBA players for 2021-2022. . If Women and Men athletes were paid more equitably then Britney wouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Perhaps the American public will come to appreciate thestrong fundamentalsof theWNBAand, as a result, salaries will improve. There is no difference between the girls college tournament and the WNBA. Sue Bird, a current player for the Seattle Storm, explained that most people think the WNBA wants the same pay as the NBA when thats not the case. It all has . Opens. Of course consumer preferences canchange. They shouldnt have to work so hard for so little. The simple fact is that more people want to watch the NBA. Nothing rude there. Jahniya Marion is a Junior at Centreville High and enjoying her first year on the Journalism staff. Those numbers are very surprising to hear but that is just the cold hard truth. without needing to get a second job to pay the bills. Many of the women dont get lucrative endorsements, and getting into broadcasting or some other sports-adjacent field once they retire is not guaranteed. On a recent episode of ESPN's "The Jump," ex-NBA player Chauncy Billups and ex-NBA coach Stan Van Gundy said that they believe that WNBA players deserve to be paid more money. However, the players union has the option to terminate the agreement after the 2019 season if they give notice by Oct. 31 of this year. Some progress is being made. Giving the WNBA time on TV means casual fans can see the players doing what they do best stealing the show. Against The Men By: Dave Seminara June 29, 2017 10 min read Over the next fortnight at The Championships, more commonly known as Wimbledon, 256. Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich? I want to get paid in my country.". For that to happen, the WNBA needs to make a new deal with its players. Comissioner Cathy Englebert (Comissioner of the Womens National Basketball Association), Diese Seite ist durch reCAPTCHA geschtzt und es gelten die Google. When it comes to me and my opinions, I strongly believe women should be paid the same amount as men maybe even more. Are there men that cook well and deal with kids well? Yes, Tennis Earnings At The Majors Are Biased. In addition to the comments from Plum, A'Ja Wilson and Diana Taurasi recently argued WNBA players should be paid more. The league minimum for a player with two or fewer years of service is $41,202; for three or more years of . So we need a change, and we need it now. This lack of media coverage has always hampered womens sports. These women should be paid more. A WNBA spokesperson reached out to HuffPost after this op-ed was published, however, and said the WNBA has lost significant money every year and has shared its financials with the Players Association. In the 2018 All-Star Game, for example, 32 percent of the roster identified as gay. In 2009, the WNBA decided to include sponsor logos on their jerseys. Machen Sie das auch? As Mark Tatum, NBA deputy commissioner, says, The league and its teams are committed to an open and good-faith negotiation that is rooted in the financial realities of our business., The pushback on that, and one of the more prominent arguments utilized by those who advocate for higher WNBA salaries, is that the NBA doesnt promote the womens league enough. The WNBA will suffer if they dont figure out some way to pay players more. Gender wage disparity arguments are a great way to virtue signal. The new CBA addresses this issue. , WNBA players make $75,000 a year in the league, with only a few players earning as much as $113,000. Sports have long mirrored society, and the gender pay gap has persisted in athletics just as it has in the professional realm. However, 48 million dollars per year is more than enough for me. Total revenue for the NBA hit $7.4 billion in 2022. And its something were going to keep trying to push and push and push until we feel that everything is equal. And I dont want to lose the WNBA or miss out on seeing the best female basketball players playing in the league. Pay disparities between men and women is totally unfair in most arenas, but NBA star Draymond Green argued a valid point as to why NBA player salaries outweigh their WNBA counterparts. The NBA's average attendance is 17,760, the WNBA's 6,535. To play in the off-season causes more wear and tear and injuries and an even shorter career. The WNBA does not have the amount of television contract and sponsorship money to warrant paying players more, having a longer season, and/or make other investments to the league. Wake up to the day's most important news. She is also not the only one to skip a WNBA season. "As athletes, we have to fight. The financial disparities between the leagues are undeniable. "And we need more people at our table to fight with us," she told Wealthsimple. As for the players, well, they deserve to be able to play the game they love (that theyre good at!) They expect the NBA to take salary from the owners and men to shore up the WNBA so they can have equal to what the men get. The WNBA has about 570,000 people that are watching the games. She was returning to Russia to fulfill her contractual obligations to her Russian Team. Until they get it, some of the worlds best female basketball players will be walking off of planes and onto courts as they meet the demands of a year-round basketball schedule. 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