My fav running joke haha

They gotta keep it going to forever remind the people of how scummy Brett Favre is! (Allegedly)

Exactly what I was gone say why not 😂

she’s got endorsements, she’s good

That’ll set the wnba back watching people who stand little chance in the nba absolutely clean shop

The 5 million isn’t enough. He stock would tank if she goes out and gets killed in that league (which she would). She will make more playing in the W and raking in endorsements.

Barstool offered her 10 million

80s the NBA filed for bankruptcy then the 2 biggest stars known as Larry Bird and magic Johnson brought the league into prosperity . Caitlin about to do this for the wnba

The wnba isn't a business. It's a charity. Worse, really, at least people feel good about charity or should.

eh, you're not wrong in general but they should be getting paid more. WNBA has the worst cut in unionized sports; they're at ~25% vs the NBA's 51%. However, the WNBA revenue in 2023 was >300% that of 2022. The starting contract for a rookie grew by

@@bootskirusso1704 What profit?

​@@GaretheDen gross profit. I guarantee the WNBA is profitable in general, and has been for a while but disbursements, capex or other corporate allocation gives a negative PTAOI. They've outright said that they're spending upfront to make more money in the long term as team values increase. Even talking PTAOI though, the last time we heard publicly, the WNBA was in the hole $10 million with revenues of $60 million. Last year, they grossed ~$200 million. I'd guess they're definitely in the black now. But the player pay % has probably dropped even further than the 25% i mentioned before, now it's probably closer to 10%.

@@ap1027 Really? You felt compelled to waste 30 seconds of your life to make that comment? SMH….

​@@ap1027: No it didn't. You don't have a clue what you are talking about. lol!

​@@ap1027imagine disparaging someone for making factual statements even if they're redundant you absolute plebian. You disgust me. *tips fedora and storms off*

Expect she won't since way more people BY FAR watch college b ball than wnba. Wouldn't be surprised if she earns more while in college than as a professional athlete

Agreed and she most likely has more than that already from NIL deals from college…Even Angel Reese said she wasn’t in a rush to go to the WNBA

thats a high estimate too brother haha

I agree with your point, but "watching a game" would fit better. I've been a Colts fan for 15 years and never been to a game because I don't live in a state with a pro team.

No chance I go to one 😂

Bil Burr's take on the WNBA's lack of success is spot on.

How does that explain why other country's women's basketball league can regularly hand out seven figure contracts? The US is supposed to have the biggest media market in the world but these women can go over to Poland or Russia and make bank.

@@princessjen5190 There probably being paid more to live in Russia, now ask yourself would you like to live in Russia? I wouldn't, it looks kinda gross, full of Putin fan boys, gets a thumbs down from me. I also suspect less players in those leagues so more bank for each person.

You obviously did not watch the video with them mentioning that she made up her contract in jersey sales right away. So yes, your view might be a little clouded. Don't know by what. If you being there leads to sold out venues, you deserve to make bank. Basic economics.

A proper response that would challenge this notion is that women's professional sports have been around for only a decade or slightly more...while most male pro leagues have been around for 70 to 100+ years. Thus, the male leagues have had significantly more time to build an audience. Whether or not that argument is actually why is beyond the point.

The WNBA has been a company that operates at a deficit for decades. Maybe that has changed as of recent, but for the entirety of its existence, the WNBA has been a project funded primarily by NBA money. If it weren’t for the NBA it would have filed bankruptcy many years ago.

I don’t know what it is now but up until last year or so I had read that they lose millions every year and the NBA just subsidizes them and pays all the bills to keep their lights on. I don’t think they’re even in the green, let alone being able to pay salaries in the millions.

About to be more tbh. The viewership of the NCAAW broke records this year.

Biggest thing is the league isn't profitable

Thanks poindexter we'll crunch the numbers

Why do you hate women?

@@87lostfan hes right tho I love women, i just dont like womens sports. Caitlin Clark is legit entertaining tho

@87lostfan it's fine. Women hate other women more than men ever will. That's why they don't want to watch women working together in sports and would rather watch reality TV shows with them trashing and gas lighting themselves over drama they themselves create.

Actual total WNBA attendance last year was 1,587,488. Cool joke though. Always classy to punch down.

and if you read comment under. I give real suggestion to what I think would help the WNBA with attendance. I feel womens BB rim should be lower from HS to College to pros. Let the women flash and show skills like the men. will certainly help bring in fans. @@Doug_Hannon

They'll go way up for her games

They’ll go up for a month then people will move on….. women are boring to watch

Yep then maybe sports teams in general should stop giving out ridiculous mega bucks contracts to some of these pro athletes

sign it then 🤷🏻‍♂️

Caitlin, you can do it put yo shot into it

Yes to all of those except attending a game as they don't have a team in my city. But a lot fo people enjoy women's basketball or would enjoy it if it were more readily accessible. I personally buy the league pass to watch all of the games and some teams do well with attendance and others don't. But just because you and your circle don't care doesn't mean others don't. In addition, even if someone has never watched a game or spent money on a team, thay doesn't change the fact that this is a workers rights issue.

Never mentioned that I do not care. Simply asking some economic questions. What workers rights issues are you are referring to?

@@87lostfan Worker's rights? They do not have the money. The W operates at a massive loss every year. They can't suddenly give them millions at the "potential" of getting profit. The NBA can pay millions because they make billions. The W does not currently have the money.

Because nobody actually cares about women's basketball. Clark and Reese are just the viral thing right now

probably got confused with the "Brazilian Blur" Leandro Barbosa

like at one point nobody cared about Punters?????...

not one person cares about her real name bro lol Outside of Caitlin Clark girls ball is brutal to watch

@@mindyourbuisness8104 eh reese sucks too lol Clark only decent one

Bro she's literally making what anyone else at that draft spot would make it has nothing to do with her popularity lmao.

The contract isn't affected by her popularity at all.... that's not how rookie contracts work

She's making millions a year already, name image and likeness deals don't go away when you go pro lol

*A WNBA player.

The only reason why people even know about women's basketball, is because a man got caught with weed in Russia.

If NFL or NBA players made similar money to WNBA players the issue would be that the owners who are already wealthy beyond any normals persons wildest dream would be simply filling their pockets with even more money that other people work their entire life to perfect their style of play the NFL and NBA are extremely profitable and the players should share in the wealth. It’s actually very simple entertaining and great players bring in viewers viewers=money owners don’t bring in viewers why should all the money go to them.

Yes and they get to play a kids game 4months out of the year.

75k a year isn’t much. I make 100k and it’s still not enough due to inflation.

I'm honestly surprised it's that high

The WNBA doesn't profit any money. There is literally no more money for them to spend on the players. The league only exists because the NBA supplements it.

WNBA doesn’t make money because except for 2 team (LA and Vegas) they don’t push advertise these teams!

The NBA has been carrying cost of wnba since the start. I'd assume everyone has heard Bill burr rant about this repeatedly lol guess we all live in different worlds right next to each other 😂

@@BoxOffice22Caitlyn Clark herself proves that narrative wrong, look at the women’s viewership for college. everyone knows the wnba exists. Nobody cares because they needed something entertaining. They have the potential to have their magic/bird revival but they aren’t there yet

@@BoxOffice22 I laugh every time I hear somebody say that, as though people just don't know the WNBA exists and would flock to the games if they only knew. It's thee WNBA's job to publicize their sport. They have a contract with ESPN and it's ESPN's job to advertise the games. The truth is women don't give a damn about the WNBA, and neither to most men. That league would have shut down 15 years ago if weren't for the NBA welfare.

​@@BoxOffice22They did in the beginning but after the first few years interest declined

Leftover nachos aren't bad though. I usually keep some in the fridge

You must live under a rock.

@@commonsense3921no we just have better things to do, not like you.

ok

@@commonsense3921because they missed the WNBA draft? Lol you sound crazy

The NBA owns the WNBA just like the G league

Lmao caitlin would have to pay the wnba with that logic😭

CBA prevents that. yes, she signed a 4 year deal, but you didn't read the contract. She has an option after the 2025 season.

One of the goats

They should do what 100 loss mlb teams do to sell tickets. Give them away for free 😂

This is a very stupid comment. 1) the WNBA spent years trying to appeal to ANYONE, and recently has really ramped up marketing. 2) if you don’t support the wnba now as a woman, than you never will. You’re arguing that they need to use the quite literal most stereotypical sexist ideas to market with women, such as food since they cook and makeup and clothes since they shop. Just imagine a guy saying “I won’t watch the nba until the players drop merch fishing gear and video games to appeal to me as a man” that has nothing to do with basketball idiot 😂 3) these women have signature shoes and clothes readily available to buy right now. You just don’t care enough to support it.

Women support will never carry a sports league you have to have men its just math

Men watch sports. Women watch makeup tutorials. If a sport doesn't appeal to men, like old WNBA, it will fail.

boom thats it. Most women dont care about sports but they need to get the ones that do to go to the games. I have no interest in doing so

Preach.

Capitalism is not being ungrateful.

Gratefulness and laziness are first cousins. Step your game up.

To you and the other idiot that said preach, are you guys the top 1% in your field? Lemme answer that for you, you are not, athletes are therefore they get to whine all they want because they can and are specialized in a field 99.9% of the world is not

Being one of the best athletes in the world at a sport is a helluva lot more work to reach that level than someone who makes 30k a year... Being that level of athlete is a 24/7 job, not 9 to 5

She made 3.5M in endorsements just last year. Smart business choice.

Hundreds of millions? Lebron don’t even make hundreds of millions from endorsements a year lmao

Endorsements are not NBA contracts, smart guy. They can be worth a whole lot more than a few million. Look at Jordan with Nike, currys with under Armor. A deal can be worth over 100 million easy LeBrons endorsement was worth over a billion, not including his NBA salery. You have no idea what you're talking about. Please learn business before you ever speak on it.

@@WeylandLabs hey smart guy. Read what I actually said instead of what you think I said buddy

@SkidogMedia and conceptualize what I stated in the op. Please think harder. I never said a per year.

Brock purdy his contract is is a little over 3 .7million dollars the average yearly pay is 934,253

@@user-xl4tp5ef1w based on skill

What do you mean based on skill? If she’s the Brock Purdy of the WNBA people will be disappointed lol

​@eliyarrows2456 well being a starting qb and a good one is many times harder than being the best wnba player

We are now dumber for having to read this comment

also there in June I believe

And so far, there is a sizable amount of hate thrown at Clark from players and former players. partly because of Jealously, partly because she is white, and partly because they feel their place in the sport is threatened.

Men are insecure and jealous

@@robertperrotto870well she needs to earn respect which I’m confident she will do, the wnba players get it. They aren’t going to just give it to her because the media hypes her up.

@@hordy82 When the league you play for has been losing money for its entire existence, you do NOT publicly attack the player coming in who is going to be your cash cow. You take care of "earning" respect on the court, not on the sports shows, twitter, or other social media. You show solidarity.

I feel like the big 3 should work with the WNBA to get some of there stars to play 3on3 in the off season to provide more playing time and help supplement their income.

Good thing she’s in Indiana😂 you can get some good land for the money she’ll end up making

@@connorbronstrup5573and the a single endorsement deal can get you a McMansion fosho

​@connorbronstrup5573 She might not be able to afford to live in Carmel, but Broad Ripple is nice enough.

@@user-xh4lt8xq3u she will end up in Geist 😭that’s where all the players end up 😂😂it’s just a fact

Lol females should be supporting WNBA in mass but yall don't. Its yall fault WNBA has been failing, tht and fact they refuse to make any changes to game like lowering rim

Not about money anymore, she's about legacy.

@@nathanstevenson1190 Maybe she is making enough in NIL. I dont know. But poor people rarely alter the course of history.

Her dream / goal was always WNBA. Now, with her dream a reality, perhaps she doesn't want to risk getting injured playing against professional male players. Caitlin does not seem to let dollars dictate her actions... refreshing!