smokebuddy [he/him]Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC?
tbf, Caitlin Clark is the only WNBA player that’s profitable.
People will bitch about how the men’s league gets paid so much, then proceed to not watch the women’s league…
If you want it to make money YOU need to support it 🫵
Todd BonzalezThey built a gender segregated system where all of the marketing and airtime goes to the men’s side. It’s an industry where women get less than 1% of the pay that the men did for the same job.
But it’s my fault for not watching?
The corporate overlords thank you for redirecting the blame away from them.
Are you suggesting they make a coed league where only the best get to play. How many female players will make the league.
NBA is coed. There is nothing in the rulebook banning women from the league.
agamemnonymousWhat about dogs?
If you teach a dog to dunk I guarantee you’ll find a market for it.
Yeah, did you not watch the documentary?
The WNBA is a marketing line item for the NBA. If the NBA didnt give the WNBA their hand out, the WNBA wouldn’t exist.
There is no rule stopping women from joining the NBA. It’s just that no woman currently is able to compete at the highest level when men are included; the whole point of the WNBA is that, without it, there are no professional women in the sport.
In other words, it’s not the same job: one is an NBA player, the other a WNBA player. The WNBA exists precisely because women can’t do “the same job” but there is a market for watching women do the job. It’s just not as big as the market for people playing at the highest level of competition.
You do know that professional sports is considered part of the entertainment industry, right? This is like you insisting that Margot Robbie and Christian Slater should be paid the same because they do the same job.
SpaceCowboyNope.
There is no rule preventing a woman from playing in the NBA. The NBA created the WNBA and has marketed it heavily in an attempt to get more women interested in the sport. Sure there’s a long term profit motive (more women watching basketball could make them some money) but the WNBA has operated at a loss for decades. But maybe next year will be the year it turns a profit!
Boycotting the WNBA doesn’t get women into the NBA, more the opposite. It’s just screwing over women basketball players because of false assumptions.