Katie Nolan has issues with WNBA players not being paid enough | Always Late with Katie Nolan | ESPN

Now that everyone is caught up on the news, let's get into our main story tonight, congratulations to the Seattle Storm who swept the Washington Mystics in three days as their third WNBA championship last Wednesday night was a sign of exclamation in the season after that difficult one. I fought in the semi-final against Mercury, so congratulations to them and greetings to homely Sue Bird. The WNBA turns 23 this year, which means it has a bright future and a ton of promise, but it needs to start paying people now that brunch is happening. I didn't release Kendal and I know you not only had water, there was a lot of talk during the season about salaries in the WNBA, you probably heard it at some point or at least started to and then someone used the phrase gender pay gap and you said, I get it, this is one of those loaded topics that everyone comes to with preconceived notions and it gets exhausting very quickly and it doesn't make it any easier when fake quotes attributed to WNBA stars are spread on social media like this one. that was supposedly Brittney Griner, you have a group of keyboard warriors who never picked up a ball in their lives badmouthing the NBA, you have mediocre

players

like Tyler Johnson who make almost 20 million dollars a year, we deserve more respect, I mean , she does not.

I'm not saying it, but it looks real

enough

, it has a fancy quote bubble, at least one set of quotes, and what I assume is a photo of Tyler Johnson, but I'm not too sure and neither is Brittney Griner, who refuted the quote. I'm not saying disrespect but I don't even know any way Tyler, I'm sure the heat is lucky to have you, the problem is things like this are shared a lot and it's the only part of this whole conversation that gets to the point. people and then we end up with this, she wants to be

paid

the same as Steph Curry, she says the same thing, no, she basically wants to be

paid

basically the same salary as NBA

players

, which is crazy right now, sorry Make the clip really triggering if you've ever done it. on a Tinder date, but at least you know he knows what he's doing because he's the loudest one, it feels like there are people on both sides of this argument shouting really loudly and what he's missing and all that noise is the real point, so let's look at what The WNBA salary conversation is all about if they don't want Steph Curry's money, well they definitely don't want money, but that's a good thing.

Steph could pay the salary of all the women in the WNBA and she still has

enough

left to sign the tax. Anyone can argue that a younger, smaller, less popular league can't pay the same amount as the NBA. What's harder is arguing that they can't pay the same percentage, which is what WNBA players are trying to tell you that they recognize the difference. and how much money each league generates, but they want a higher percentage of their league's revenue. Remember that NBA players make about 50% of what the league calls basketball-re

late

d income. A Forbes report from last year featured that WNBA players only make about 25%.

Bri, well Rachel, 25% actually says it very well, it's actually closing around 22% real quick, shout out to a medium for lobsters, actually has a woman ever heard 22 percent 22 % that's their slice of the pie, you could take 22% of a pie on Thanksgiving and no one would notice that 22% isn't a division of income, it's a decent tip for the delivery guy who pretended not to recognize you the second time. time he came to your house in one day, a big problem is that, unlike the NBA it is difficult to find solid financial figures for the women's league, we don't really know how much money they have or where it comes from, it's like an episode of house hunters , she's a yoga janitor and he's an amateur dog groomer, but I guess I'll just take your word that they have three million dollars for their dream home in Savannah, but we know the players' salary information and quick math They show that even if we underestimate the league's revenue figures based on the data, we have the correct information. information on theft and ticket sales, the players are not getting close to 50% and the reason we are hearing about this now is that the players and owners can opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement at the end of October, but When players ask for a bigger cut the most common refrain is that we don't have the money as Adam Silver said on Get Up in April, ultimately this is not a title 9 problem, it's a business problem, we still have multiple teams losing money and if the teams in the league are not making a profit, they can't possibly pay the players a lot of money like they do in the NBA, almost half of the teams in the NBA are losing money and then, even when you take revenue sharing into account, 9 of the 30 were in the red huh so we think several NBA teams are losing money every year for sure and several WNBA teams could be losing money every year and yet only one of them is easily accepted and talked about all the time, but I wonder why that is.

This is how Ferris Bueller spends an entire day ditching school, stealing cars, and bullying his classmates, but in the end his sister is the one who gets arrested, but look, I'd like to understand if a league has been around for 22 years and only has 12 franchises, some of which are still not profitable and attendance is less than 7,000 fans per game, you have to shut it down and move on, you tried, but it didn't work out well, so who's going to tell the NBA because those are your numbers? Since its 22nd year, the WMA is actually better off with increased attendance and a television deal, that's what men's professional sports in the US have struggled with before and when they make the conversation they rarely, if ever time, it deviates until we close it, take the MLS, for example, a league. which had difficulty gaining traction in the past due to a crowded domestic sports market in a highly competitive international market, its solution was to modify its salary cap rules to allow teams to make competitive offers to the best talent available to attract them to play.

In the United States, the WNBA already has the best talent in the world. Here in the United States, the problem is not bringing them but preventing them from leaving. The WNBA is the best women's basketball league in the world. Everyone wants to compare it to the NBA, but it is a league that stands up. on its own but we are not compensated as the best women's basketball league in the world. There is China, there is Russia. My sister played in Poland. I played in Italy in those leagues, as she mentioned, she could play twice, three times four. times, but up to ten times your WNBA salary.

China is not supposed to get our best basketball players. We start shouting to get Andray Blatche. Is that how it works. Look, if they want leadership to be successful and they keep saying yes, they need to invest in it. a good place to start would be to give players a revenue share comparable to other professional leagues in the US, stop making this women vs. men thing when it's really women vs. pies. Now, for the visual learners, this cake, this one, the NBA cake. it's a big pie and the players the players get all of this right so that's for the owners and that's for the players like you know LeBron Steph even JaVale McGee gets like a blueberry and this smaller pie here yeah , it's a WM bi NB, a cake it's not huge, but it's delicious and don't call it adorable, this small slice, you know what it's about, as much as NBA, WNBA players are gay, okay, and all they want is like that, a lot more, okay, the water, the land and maybe maybe they have more money. he invested in his wmba so maybe this is also part of his portion, you know, that seems like a good idea to me, okay, dodge enough, go check this out.

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