KembaWalker wrote:One_and_Done wrote:Shock Defeat wrote:Lol so you are saying the players should be playing for free?
How many companies start off losing money for a long ass time? It's called being a startup and being propped up by VC money. WNBA is no different and yet they should be ponying up for Caitlin given her importance. They are lucky that she didn't choose big 3 or a oversees league didn't over her the bag.
Hopefully Caitlin elevates the status of the league but overall wanna is fortunate that Nike exists to pay her what she is really worth.
Your "real worth" is what the market for your services are. As a player the market for her services is relatively low, because nobody watches the WNBA and it loses money. As a celebrity her market value is much.higher, but it has relatively little to do with how good she is in the WNBA. She's being paid for being a charismatic winner companies can market, and as long as she doesn't damage that image too much in the WNBA it won't really matter if she's not a top 20 player. Good for her.
If the women's league wants to make more money they should just form a pro-leagur from the top college teams. That's how alot of old football leagues started. Then once it's stable you add some non-college based teams in big markets.
Her real worth is a lot closer to her free market endorsement money than her WNBA salary. Without rookie scale contracts or a maximum salary she would ask for and receive a seven figure yearly contract, easily. She’s getting extremely scammed by being a transcendent athlete
If she wants more money she's free to try and get a higher offer from another sports entertainment company; I hear the Russian leagues are recruiting.
You're getting confused again by not understanding the WNBA is all 1 business. Her "real worth" is what the market will pay her. WNBA salary scales indicate this is what she's worth. If she was not a rookie she'd make more, but it's also fair to say if true market forces applied to the WNBA it wouldn't exist at all. It's the runt of the litter surviving off the teat of the NBA.