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This is evident in the lack of "highlight" plays that the WNBA is able to offer up. It doesnt have to be the same as men at all. We use all the fundamentals that the game was made for. Berri points out that Major League Baseball players were underpaid until, behind Marvin Miller, they built the strongest union in sports. So we need a change, and we need it now. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Lisa Borders, president of theWNBA, has even directlypointed to sexismas a driving reason for the discrepancies between the earnings ofmale and female players. In the six Olympic Games that have included womens soccer, the U.S. has captured four golds and a silver. While the NBA is quite profitable with a blockbuster $24 billion TV deal, billions of dollars in advertising and a robust revenue sharing system only about half of WNBA franchises finish the season in the black. 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. Britney Griner as the 5th ranked WNBA player is paid 227 K by the WNBA. And in sport, just as in society, women are fighting back, working towards the day when pay equality is achieved. 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. However, in the 1971-1972 season the year the NBA started drawing the same number of fans that the WNBA attracts today the average salary was $90,000, which would equate to roughly $500,000 today. They make it to the WC and have to split the revenue with the womens soccer team. So is the opportunity to grow the game. In 2017, the team threatened to boycott the 2017 IIHF World Championships if a settlement was not made with USA Hockey for equal treatment to the mens team. And although we don't know every player's salary, it has been reported that average salary is about $75,000. Its a heavy responsibility, but its one that we gladly take on, Becky Sauerbraunn told ESPN following the 2019 SheBelieves Cup. The guys are 10 times more athletic than the girls too. They shouldnt have to work so hard for so little. If the WNBA doesnt make a profit, and ESPNs sources confirm that it doesnt, then it bears to reason that the players share of the EBRI will be lower. A post shared by Kelsey Plum (@kelseyplum10). 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. I choose to ignore them and not attend the games because, to be blunt, the product isnt very good. As Phoenix Mercurys Brittney Griner wrote on Instagram earlier this year, I do believe we should get paid more in the WNBA before players decide to only play overseas and rest our bodies during the summer.. WNBA players want what NBA players spent decades trying to obtain. The WNBAs current collective bargaining agreement wont expire until October 2021, with the maximum salary paid to WNBA veterans set to increase $8,000 from $113,500 to $121,500 by that year, which barely keeps pace with inflation at its current rate. Wake up to the day's most important news. The highest-paid NBA players, by comparison, make in excess of $40. The main reason why WNBA players are paid less is WNBA is not as famous as NBA. Per The New York Times, the womens players were barely making living wages and were left out of pre-Olympic marketing plans despite their success on the ice. Nobody has put any effort into making sure that women can at least get paid more than the amount we get. The conversation continued recently when a WNBA player compared the championship bonuses earned by LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm. The WNBA might be the most boring form of basketball I have ever seen. Plenty of signs indicate that will happen, and it should. Until then, women basketball players should perhaps look for markets that place greater value on their skill. In a perfect world, yes, yes they absolutely should. This also helps explains whye-sports playersare making more money than the best players in theWNBA. Cant pay them the same as NBA players, thats just daylight fraud, Nate Jun 3, 2022 at 3:22 pm. 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. Basketball. Solely because theyre women? Instead, she has a very reasonable argument for why the players deserve more: Kelsey Plum was a guest on The Residency Pod where she laid out an obvious and easily fixable discrepancy between the NBA and WNBA. Heres the thing: the WNBA is not nearly as profitable as the NBA. Is it possible, however, that this simply shows an inherent sexist bias by consumers against womens basketball? INFO What are differences that cause WNBA players to get paid Are. The simple fact is that more people want to watch the NBA. Ever. On average, WNBA players make $75,000 a year in the league, with only a few players earning as much as $113,000. Of course the real issue has nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with the fact that theWNBAsimply isnt very popular with Americans. As The New York Timesreported in 2016,only half ofWNBAteams have managed to become profitable 20 years after the leagues founding. That same year, however, only 2 percent of airtime on the stations flagship show, SportsCenter, was allocated to womens sports. These women should be paid more. Lets look beyond skill and size. Prior to this season, Cambage last played in the WNBA in 2013. All they want is better pay equity. Before winning a historic gold medal in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games, the U.S. Womens National Ice Hockey Team was battling off the ice for equal pay. But using league revenue, economics professor Dave Berri was recently able to calculate a significant gender wage gap in another respect. And it also appears -- in response to McCoughtry's comment -- the WNBA should be more competitive with leagues around the world. But WNBA players only take less than 25 percent of the total earnings of their league. Nothing rude there. And while thats not a dollar amount to sniff at, these women only have so long to earn money off their athletic ability. In 2014, the WNBA launched the first marketing campaign in professional sports to directly appeal to the LGBTQ market. Kelsey Plum currently makes $200,000/year as a point guard for the Las Vegas Aces. While the men are getting about half of the total money they help the NBA earn, the women are getting less than a fourth. The WNBA's average base salary is around $130,000, with the rookie minimum at $60,471 and the veteran minimum at $72,141. In fact, theWNBAs big television contractwas itself a byproduct of the channelreworking its agreement with their male counterpart. But obviously, her pay doesn't match her performance. And we need more people at our table to fight with us, she told Wealthsimple. Obviously, the players would want to receive a larger share of league revenue. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Jean Piere Dec 25, 2022 at 7:09 pm. Did You Ever Wonder How and Why the Left Is Able to Push Their Narratives Almost Unhindered? Currently,. You can make a case that WNBA players could be paid more, but some people are making an argument that they should be paid the same, or at least similarly. Last year, Minnesota Lynxs Seimone Augustus told The Undefeated that the reasons players continue in the league is for history and for the future. She is in grave danger and this petition is to try to make sure this never happens again. As someone who has studied the WNBA for years, Ive been excited to witness, over the course of this season, continued growth in viewership and attendance, along with sponsorship revenue. This year, all of the major professional sports leagues had a presence. Women represent 44 percent of NFL fans, while 28 percent of women say they follow pro baseball, and 29 percent report that they follow the NBA. However, due to aspects such as entertainment value and . The more exposure they receive, the more theyll dole out the cash for sponsorships, endorsements and advertisements. Many NBA players are vocal in their support of the womens league because of the quality of play and because they understand the hard work these women put into their game. That is more than $92 million a year for the rights to televise the USGA's championships, including the men's and women's U.S. This is Discrimination against women. This is the first time salaries for women in the WNBA will achieve an average salary that is six figures (Glamour). Stats show that in 2018, the top scoring team in the WNBA . Organizing and negotiating prompted that viable business. Specifically, let's imagine the WNBA gave 50% of its revenue to its players. without needing to get a second job to pay the bills. But let's talk about the competitiveness of the field for a minute, because, arguably, it's true: In many sports, the difference in skill and ability between the top women's athlete, and say, the 100 th-ranked women's athlete, is a much wider gulf than the same comparison between male players of similar ranks.For instance the recent women's football World Cup match between the #1 . Meanwhile, the women have placed in the top three teams in every Womens World Cup since 1991 (when the womens tournament began) and has three titles. 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. And I dont want to lose the WNBA or miss out on seeing the best female basketball players playing in the league. But we are so glad they did, and were thankful because they could have done less But they did the right thing and did it across all of their events.. Hell yeah. While leading to the WNBA finals in a sell-out game, Kyle Lowry, Ja Morant, Ty Lue, Alvin Gentry, and Demarcus Cousins all attended the WNBA finals this year. We play as a team and, most importantly, we play off each other. And there is seemingly no end to the people who tell them to be quiet, who disparage their talent and work and even lie about what they have said to make them seem petty or jealous. Many people don't like the WNBA just because they have low talent but the girls don . As women, we work just as hard or maybe even harder than men do when it comes to achieving our goals. The womens team has far exceeded the success of their male counterparts, who failed to even qualify for the FIFA Mens World Cup in 2018. Boys and men pick on the league every day. Join now to unlock comments, browse ad-free, and access exclusive content from your favorite FDRLST writers. The Players Association wants a higher share of the estimated basketball-related income (EBRI). The 5th ranked NBA player makes over 42 million. 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. It all has . The Long Fight for Pay Equality in Sports. He'll need to connect with all of his players . [B]ecause I heard a bench player gets paid more than nvm.. As women, we have to fight," Diggins-Smith told Bleacher Report. WNBA players typically share less than half of the team revenue received by NBA players, according to Ebony. WNBA Vs NBA Justeen Cooley Justeen Cooley Mrs.Gil English 9 January 6, 2017 WNBA Vs NBA Understanding how and why the NBA gets paid so much. The WNBA is currently the top league in the world in terms of talent. The fact that NBA players get a much larger piece of the revenue pie does seem to say something about how each respective league values its players. And average pay in these leagues is at least three times the average pay in the WNBA. The WNBA brings in $25 million dollars a year, while the NBA brings in $7.4 billion. She is the second-highest-paid player on the team just behind Aja Wilson who earns $202,155. Las Vegas Aces point guard Kelsey Plum wants to change that. 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. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Sports have long mirrored society, and the gender pay gap has persisted in athletics just as it has in the professional realm. is not about comparing the WNBA to the NBA as apples-to-apples salaries. All rights reserved. According to ESPN estimates, NBA players receive around 50 percent of the EBRI; WNBA players receive around 22 percent. What would Cambage and other WNBA stars be paid this year if the league gave 50% of its revenue to its players? What a laugh. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images). Perhaps higher pay in the WNBA would keep stars like Cambage in the league. After all, sponsors want exposure for their brand. WNBA players want their equal pay, but no one wants to watch their games. It's not entirely clear what NBA referees make, but Yahoo.com reported a few years ago that salaries range from $150,000 to $550,000. However, 48 million dollars per year is more than enough for me. The figures used came from ESPN ranking and salary lists for NBA and WNBA players for 2021-2022. . Where is the fair day's wage for the fair day's work? Its not even because of skill it is simply because none of the girls could get a shot off at will. Marketing researchers have discovered that consumers respond more favorably to marketing initiatives that cater to their identities. Jessica Luther is a freelance journalist, an author and a co-host of the feminist sports podcast Burn It All Down.. Bradley Beal, who is also a professional player who currently plays for the Washington Wizards, is always finding ways to support the Washington Mystics. Playing overseas in Europe, Asia, or Australia can often pay substantially more than playing in the United States. Maybe I am wrong and the WNBA will blow up one day and make more money. Although that's true, there's still a substantial gender wage gap in professional basketball, even after you adjust for the revenue difference. 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. I know this is a controversial statement because women are never supposed to ask for more than they have, lest they be ungrateful for whatever theyve been given thus far. you gotta take a breath, kid. Meanwhile, for the upcoming NBA season, the minimum salary of a professional NBA player is $838,464. Hammon has earned $1 million with the Aces after leaving her past job as a coaching assistant with the San Antonio Spurs, making her the highest paid person in the WNBA league. They are not going to watch a game where the best team in the league would lose by 30 to the best high school team in the nation. 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. These women should be paid more. What many of the women are asking for is equity in revenue sharing, as economist David Berri has written about repeatedly at Forbes. Ryan Rolls Over on Tucker Over Fox News Content, We Need to Talk About Mark Levin's Interview With Ron DeSantis, MONDAY AT 3PM EASTERN: 'Five O'Clock Somewhere' with Kruiser, VodkaPundit - Replay Available, LOL: White House Official Shares Tweet From Biden Showered With His Daughter, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. In the NBA, the same ratio is about 4.7. But should they be seeing an increase in their earnings? The NBA player whose salary is closest . If you cannot draw the fans and advertising dollars on your own, why would you expect the NBA to be your support bra? Wow LeBron James new contract has triggered some great comments from @WNBA players. For example, if a woman made an NBA team, then she should get paid commensurate to her position and contributions to her team. And yes, clearly the WNBA does not have enough revenue for its top players to be paid like similar top players in the NBA. Old Joe Biden Has Never Told a WEIRDER Story Than This One, Et Tu, Paul? Many. These numbers were promoted by theleague as the highest since 2003. And we need men speaking out about these things., In 2016, six female big wave surfers Andrea Moller, Bianca Valenti, Keala Kennelly, Paige Alms, Karen Tynan and Sabrina Brennan founded the Commission for Equity in Womens Surfing (CEWS). If women are paid the same they will be treated the same. The NBA makes a profit. In addition, let's say all players in the WNBA -- regardless of productivity -- are guaranteed at least the league minimum; with whatever revenue that remains split among the players in terms of their positive contribution to team wins. 2 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. However, that is not going to happen. The average salary of a WNBA player as of 2017 was $75,000, whereas the average NBA salary is $30 million. In other words, if the WNBA doesnt figure this out, players are going to opt out of the league. are vocal in their support of the womens league because of the quality of play and because they understand the hard work these women put into their game. 2023 Womens Sports Foundation. Copyright 2023 PJMedia.com/Salem Media. Following the success of the 2014 Pride Campaign, the league has continued to reach out to gay fans, promoting stories about their LGBT players, and offering special merchandise for Pride Month and Pride Night games. The financial disparities between the leagues are undeniable. If you've ever gone to a high school football game, you've probably seen some of the . That's not a lot, and it's certainly less than even the lowest-paid players in Major League Soccer . Playing overseas in Europe, Asia, or Australia can often. And no one wants to see the WNBA die, least of all the players., The WNBA will suffer if they dont figure out some way to pay players more. 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. Has the WNBA made profit? She believes the athletes deserve more money. Prior to that he served as Deputy Communications Director for the House Financial Services Committee under Rep. Spencer Bachus and Rep. Jeb Hensarling. Every once in a while, you'll get someone who claims WNBA players should be paid like LeBron James and other elite NBA talent. Both basketball stars won their fourth championship in October but earned very different bonuses. And Britney Griner, in an interview with Landon Buford, echoed the sentiment . 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 . In contrast, NBA players receive about 50% of league revenue. They're better at dealing with kids. Diese*r Petitionsstarter*in setzt sich fr Dinge ein, die ihr/ihm am Herzen liegen. Playing overseas in Europe, Asia, or Australia can often pay substantially more than playing in the United States. Please everyone support our women athletes. By comparison, last years Professional Bowling League averaged650,000 viewers for ESPN. Swin Cash. WNBA players arent asking for NBA level compensation. After winning in Indian Wells at the weekend, Djokovic said: "We have much more. And shes not arguing they deserve NBA-sized salaries. Basketball is a game of athleticism and skill. "And we need more people at our table to fight with us," she told Wealthsimple. However, the WNBA isnt even remotely close to the NBA. You can not compare the cultures. However, you cannot have equal pay when you dont make enough money to have the same amount of pay. In 2009, the WNBA decided to include sponsor logos on their jerseys. In other words they would have to pay to play. 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. However, if NBA wanted to pay WNBA players more wages and salaries . This is a Gross difference between NBA organizations. And its something were going to keep trying to push and push and push until we feel that everything is equal. So not only are the players taking home 30% less than their NBA counterparts its 20% of a much smaller pie. Copyright 20102023, The Conversation Media Group Ltd. Doppler, the mascot of the Seattle Storm, waves a rainbow gay pride flag before the start of a game. In conclusion, the WNBA will never be paid the same amount as the NBA players. 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. The results suggest that WNBA star players and starters are generally paid according to their respective levels of productivity, although there is evidence that ine ciencies exist with regards to rookie compensation. But the notion that women deserve to be paid more just because theyre women is absurd and counterproductive to my daughters future earning potential. 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