Exposing ESPN's Alternative Facts About The WNBA (ft. Katie Nolan) ©
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So the video I'm refuting originally popped up in my "Recommended" and there were so many blatant lies in it, I just had to make a rebuttal.
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Thanks Fam. It's obvious that the young lady is an entertainer posing as a journalist.
Interesting information.. but none of this matters. do you know why? because THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS ARE GOING TO WIN THE STANLEY CUP!
Great Video as usual BE!
Skip Bayless > Katie Nolan
Women are making a press for supremacy. Tell me, if I did a job that required me to work less hours, work a smaller database, and my work wasn't as good as my CEO's, would I have anyone defending my demand to the same percentage of revenue as my CEO's stock options? Even then, would anyone defend me and we aren't profitable yet because we're building up the company? That's basically what this is they're asking for. Smaller balls, bigger rims, shorter lines, less games, and less money brought in (actually losing money) with downward projection = Same pay in what world? A feminist's world. No logic.
lets be honest, if the WNBA just disappeared off the face of the planet, no one would notice.
I didn't even know they existed until a couple years ago 😂
Nick Graf and every sjw that has never watched the sport
Nick Graf activity*
💯
If the wnba made us sandwiches we would notice
Fun fact, Steph Curry has had more than double the amount of dunks in his career than the WNBA has had in it's entire history.
How many?
and he ain’t even no dunker
Mans has a 30 dunk rating
@@MrSimonvk Steph has around 25, and the WNBA has 11 total. From those 11, 5 are from Britney Griner.
@@marlkalone7361 wait are you serious?
Shoutout to the WNBA on being the first ever non profit professional sports league in the world. What an inspiration 🙌
This comment is highly underrated 😆😆
@@aude2sapere Fr only 18 likes..
Yet if someone steals this comment and posts it on a different video I could easily see it doing 2k plus
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You sir, won the internet 9 months ago when you posted this great comment!
You couldn't of said it any better in 20 words or less. Everyone of these TV personalities knows dam well the WNBA is a joke and that without the NBA supplanting them they would be a "REC League". It's typical SJW Virtue Signaling to show how "Woke" they are.
The WNBA has never made a profit in the 25 years that they have been a league.
Also WNBA Players: Yo why aren't we getting paid more?
Fr the league would literally cease to exist without nba subsidy money
Exactly.
They want to get payed from tax payers money that's where its going
It's like asking your boss for a raise when you're literally losing him money just by showing up.
I work with a guy like that. Loses us money on nearly every project, but claims he brings in all the revenue. Everyone knows it and he sucks
@@stinkyfingers1617 im just asking a question so I dont want to offend you but why isn't he fired
Hill Houston it’s just like why the WNBA isn’t shut down
@@hillhouston1746 without him these guys cant feel better about themselves
@@dunnixu_xu247 ok
Dude, imagine telling strangers at a party that you're the owner of a sports team, and then having to go on and admit that it's a WNBA team.
MosesMarlboro 😂😂
Lmao he would have to leave
Then they all give you money cause they feel sorry for you 😂
If that were the case I would say I work at McDonald’s rather than tell them I’m an owner of a WNBA basketball team.
Jaris Pai idk bout that one chief
This man deadass went onto her Instagram and called her ass out 😂😂😂 the amount of research that went into this is incredible. Good job my guy
Fukkkk dat liar! Gott herrrrrrrr
I love this.... I'm so tired of women claiming that EVERYTHING is a "WOMAN'S ISSUE". Not even doing research, then presenting incorrect im formation they heard some other woman say, like it's their opinion. Real feminism doesn't work like that. It's about advancing woman wherever possible and, necessary but, NOT downing men. Real feminist hate that kind of bullshit. So good for you for some great research and, well thought out points.
Wait he went and called her out
@@tinaradakovich5540 women are simply jealous they're not as good as men at most competitive fields.
@@YouAintGotNoTegridyBoi I'm jealous of the crime rate. We women won't catch you on that.
she's a WBNA-level analyst
Wonder how many WNBA games she attended, with all the hardcore stances she's making, surely she's a really prominent supporter.
She’s just reading a script, her writers are to blame to be fair
*Dan soder has left the chat*
I liked her more when she was on fox sports
Brilliant
I hate any host who talks in that condescending manner. They’re always wrong, but are so sure they’re right.
Michael Harvey Couldn’t have said it better myself
So I guess you don't watch much CNN or MSNBC huh.
@@davidwood2831 Tuning into MSNBC and taking a drink every time they say "the reality is" is a drinking game nobody could live through.
@@davidwood2831 Why did you leave out Fox News in that? They're the worst of the bunch. All of them are full of phonies that get paid to lie and talk shit about the other side of the aisle.
@@hollowgetsuga425 or Everytime Racheal Maddow cries.
I make more money than the WNBA; they make -25 million a year, I make 40k.
I’m 13 and make more money (get paid 100 a week)
Damian Rodriguez keep pushing young man. You started making money young. Soon you’ll be moving into your own apartment and buying your own car
Superfly Samoan I’ve saved up for a car
Lol my little cousin makes more money
I’m pretty sure I have a 20 in my wallet. So I can also say that I have more money than the WNBA
The NBA should cut ties with the WNBA and let them operate on their own and allow them the freedom to pay whatever percent they find fair.
Big truth my guy, if it wasn't for the NBA there would be no WNBA, they should be happy they get paid anything
The day the nba goes away is the day the wnba is shutting doors
@@34cvc exactly
good luck!. if the NBA pulls out they get sued for discrimination by the players and the LGBT and all the womans groups and the crap hits the fan. The NBA doesn't want that mess anyway the NBA is using that as a large tax write off.
@@tomthumb4232 Lmao LGBT? What? That has nothing to do with the leagues splitting.
I've noticed that everyone who demands more "investment" in women's sports, is never proposing to invest their own money. It's always someone else's money they want to be wasted on an ideological project.
And ALWAYS a man's money
They reject having a lower rim but use a smaller ball and a closer 3 point line. Cmon
@Marine Life Serena was arrogant and got absolutely humbled. Glad she took it like a champ and accepted the fact that women can never compete with men in sports.
@Marine Life To be fair i think she could be at least in the top 500 of men's player. She is definitely is better than most men. Which is saying a lot.
@@marcopolo2028 BUT WE ARE NTO COMPARING SERENA TO AVERAGE MAN. She is top woman player so we compare her to top man player.
Holy shit is this that hard to understand?
Mateusz Przybylski she played against a rank 300 in a warm up match and lost like 6-0 6-1
Marco Polo she lost to number 201 I think
imagine being 6’8 and missing a warm up dunk and you know that a 5’7 guy won the dunk contest in the best basketball league in the world ....
*enter solluminati’s voice : < That’s tufff >
You just hate to see it, said no one
Heeeeeeee
Spud webb
Nate, despite being 5'9, is without a doubt, proof that those WNBA players are lazy and untalented.
ask why Not lazy, they just aren’t physically like us...
The answer is simple. People don't want to watch an inferior version of a sport that already exists.
Well as much as it works in basketball I wouldn't completely agree with you on every sport. I mean I enjoy watching women's tennis for example not to mention women's MMA which often delivers fights better than men's MMA. There is plenty women sports I enjoy watching its just basketball isn't one of them.
MajicGecko PMPL Women's tennis and MMA aren't really inferior in regards to the men's counter parts, as you said women's MMA and tennis are both equal quality.
It really doesn't have anything to do with women as much as it does skill, and marketability off of that. There really isn't any high flying jaw dropping WNBA players at all.
The reason being is that women are playing against women, and they don't develop the same talents as the men who have to play against the men.
And that has no sexist connotation, it has to do with those men being the top rated basketball player's in the ENTIRE nation
@@synical7733 I completely disagree. If it is a case of women competing against women why do female tennis players almost as enjoyable to watch as male players? They play against women as well, sure they can practice against men but its the same with basketball. In fact I guarantee you that female basketball players spend probably 10 times as much time playing against men than tennis players did. Simply because from very young age female tennis player compete against other females. IN case of basketball there are not as many chicks balling out there so they in fact were growing up playing 95% of time against dudes.
Following your theory it seems like basketball female players should be much more skilful than female tennis players.
Its just matter of specifics of certain sport, basketball is much more athletic than tennis especially NBA. Women being generally much smaller should be playing different kind of court, I mean it will be always impossible for women to grab the ball in one hand, cock it back and then slam it with so much power. They are smaller than men and less athletic, but im quite sure on lower basket with slightly smaller ball it would be much easier for them. And people expect them to do almost as well as men on basketball court, that is simply impossible physically for them.
MajicGecko PMPL I'm sure women play against men at times but they aren't playing against them constantly; professionally when they are developing their talent. Rightfully so, given they will only play against other women professionally. But this holds them back universally. The same things they do in the WNBA wouldn't happen in the NBA, not because of gender but talent level. Name somebody in the WNBA who could rival even a player like Devin Booker?
It's the reason even in men's leagues; AAU, JV, etc, boys don't end up developing as well when their opponents talent isn't as elite. There is a difference between dropping a 100 against an unranked high school team and 20 in the NBA.
MajicGecko PMPL And speaking on athleticism again, success in the NBA doesn't always require athleticism. There has been numerous top level and HOF players who had below average athleticism for the NBA.
John Stockton, Steve Nash, Larry Bird, Kyle Korver, Dirk Nowitski. You could name a lot more. The reason women can't or won't find success in the NBA is because they keep playing in women's leagues.
Even if you wanna bring up strength differences, we could have at least had a couple female guards and shooters by now.
It’s simple supply vs demand. Damn near everyone should be able to comprehend this.
Preach 😏
Wnba. I dont understand. Money please.
Didnt those women attend and graduate college?
WTA is popular because it piggybacks by having matches same time & place as ATP (for tennis).
WNBA should do the same by having it's seasons at least partially coincide with NBA.
Have yall seen any male pornstars complain about pay equality?
Or any male models for that matter? Men make so much less than women in the modeling industry and you never hear a peep about that.
It just comes down to demand for the product. There is low demand for male models, so they make less. Likewise, there is less demand for women's basketball, so they make less.
Who would complain about getting paid to fuck? LOL
brettcorrea77 lmfao
brettcorrea7 bro most male pornstars start out in gay porn, it's not as great as it sounds
brettcorrea77 male pornstars have it rough
People hear “women are making less” and then just ignore the 30 real reasons as to why the NBA is wildly more profitable than ANY basketball league anywhere
WNBA makes very little profit. NBA bleeds money to keep wnba going.
@@gh0rochi363 They literally don't make profit
@@tyrkun1624 Neither does the G League
@@rockvilleraven They aren't asking for equal pay
@@rockvilleraven the g-league is also a developmental league , not a league that has the "best of the best" like the NBA
Adam silver pretty much said the real issue. Women aren’t even going to the games themselves but yet want to bash men because the nba players are getting paid more. This feminist propaganda needs to end.
Exactly
onefizzle preach. ✊
Women don’t want to go watch a league of 90% lesbians. ESPN didn’t cover the fact a former player quit cuz she was being pressured to try same sex relationship. Some of their players have stolen women from their actual husbands.
What women who are straight want to see that. Iggy said he wouldn’t want to have his daughter play in WNBA.
NonyaBusiness! You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Women view men as nothing more then mere asset generators for them. They feel entitled to whatever we as men have built for ourselves. Rather than open up their wallet, put actions to their complaints, and go to the games to support their gender, they feel men in the nba should take the money that they’ve earned and give it to them. This is the world we live in.
onefizzle Income Inequality and sexual assault/harassment do exist, this just isn’t something that can be linked into women’s rights like underrepresentation in the film/tv industry.
Going to her IG and pointing out that she herself doesn’t even support the WNBA is fucking GOLD! Great job.
"Let's go to the bar and watch the WNBA game tonight," said no one ever.
Oh cmon I need to get shit faced and watch him miss lay ups and air ball a ton of shots. I’d laugh my ass off.
Lol....🤣🤣🤣🤣
......No you go to the bar after a WNBA game ;)
Evilmonkey7818 agreed i wok at a bar restaurant. No one ever has asked to watch a wnba game.
Well, maybe a lesbian bar? 😉
Kids, pay attention to this man, this is a perfect representation of how you discredit someone with facts. I guarantee this man didnt just read one single article to get the facts either. Just like you shouldn't read or watch one news source to learn facts.
Also, be careful a lot of news sources are not facts 😂😂
@@raham9583 very good point lol
alot of people i know need to see this comment...
The "news" has always controlled people. Pretty crazy how the majority of Americans live blind and manipulated
@@x3xGR33Dx amen to that
My respect for Adam Silver skyrocketed after seeing that last clip. No corpspeak, no diplomacy, no soft language... just facts. We need to see more of it, especially on mainstream TV.
Way better than that snake Stern.
"Facts don't care about your feelings"
I always respected silver more than stern. He not a snake, he with the players and for the players
The Rock nah, ain’t nothing wrong with advertising. It’s annoying when people advertise their opinions and political beliefs, but just trying to grow a product that stays true to itself and tries to improve is respectable
I especially love that lil nugget about older men who love fundamental ball are their biggest supporters..ooooouuuucccchhh ladies
This is a very well-researched video. Thank you so much for putting it together! One point about the attendance comparison between the leagues at year 22 that I would like to add is that the WNBA has only been able to attain its (dwindling) numbers _with significant financial assistance from the NBA._ The NBA hit those numbers in '70 all on its own without any big brother institution to bail them out.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
And what she fails to mention is when the NBA was started they didn't have a sister or brother company that was funding their entire existence
FLY EAGLES FLY and it’s not like today where there are thousands of ways to display the product, the NBA could only sign deals with CBS ABC and NBC on grainy television which not everyone had
@@robertthibodeau9182 Furthermore you have to look at both population and financial inflation from 1970-1 season to the 2017-8 season.
@@davidrosensin7985 agreed.
This subject made NBA Heads Top Tier analysts 😂😂😂
He destroying her in this video
If they do percentage, they would owe money.
D M 😭😭😭😂
Exactly. These false narratives like to equate revenue with profit. They're spending more money than they generate in revenue. That's negative profit. Like you said, if WNBA players were paid relative to the profit they generate, they would be paying the WNBA.....
@@gangrenegengar1254 "Negative Profit" lmao
They already owe money. If the NBA wanted to they could shut the WNBA down completely, they are investing and not receiving a profit, they cost the NBA 10 million a year, the NBA stops investing they go bankrupt.
They already do
ONE of those NBA teams that are losing money, still makes more than the WHOLE WNBA........
the WNBA doesn’t produce high enough quality basketball to warrant that kind of money sorry 🤷♂️
Doesn't the wnba lose money???
@@johnclements9085 Exactly, the Cavs that one year lost -$6.2M, which is still more money than the WNBA made of likely -$10M+
John Clements yes every year since they started the league, the fact is the WNBA makes a higher percentage then the NBA because their profits are zero. Without the NBA the WNBA would have already failed. So now they want more money it’s insane.
Yep. Not to mention that the NBA doesn’t make most of its revenue from people attending the games. It’s television and publicity. The NBA playoffs are one of the most watched sporting events on the planet. That draws in a lot of money
they should add a couple of teams more to the league: a team of only 15 year old boys, a team of +55yo men, a team of celebrities... I will watch that😂😂😂😂
Even when offered free tickets. I still am wayyy too uninterested to go.
@King's React Gaming yeah takin pics wid snoop is like a mil times more interesting than a wnba game even when you courtside. 5? Fuck that I'd pay 100 for a pic with snoop
Honestly would rather sit at home and watch random TH-cam videos for hours instead of go to a WNBA game
Free? I wouldn’t even go if they offered to pay me anything less than $100 to go.
BrokeHomieQuan notice how the attraction here is the pic with snoop and not the game lol!
@@briancollins4569 - "What did you do yesterday?"
- "I took a pic with Snoop!"
- "Oh shit! Where did you see him?"
- "Staples Center. That place is amazing."
- "Cool, I've always wanted to check it out. What was going on there?"
- "Oh yeah, just some shitty WNBA game."
Yeah, the WNBA game is the most boring part of that story lol.
What's 50% of -$40,000,000 a year? If anything ...the WNBA players owe the owners money.... 🤔
Lol worst thing to tell a woman is she owes you money. Alimony/child support are usually a powerful tradition
Rofl...seriously! Myself and my friends have to pool our own cash to play in a small-time league where the skill level is still above the WNBA.
Exactly.
Tbh you logic is reasonable in this situation. This conversation around the WNBA is based in Narnia. There's not one reason why that league should still be open. It's only purpose is to continue to fuel this gender bending fantasy we're being force fed.
MrJreed1000 it’s doomed. One thing I never hear mentioned relating to WNBA, is I never hear women or girls even mention the WNBA, it’s teams of its players, let alone wanting to go to a game or watch on tv. But they do know a good bit about the NBA players. There’s some obvious hurdles that the WNBA has to overcome but I’ll leave that to someone else.
They are welcome to whatever percentage of $-10,000,000 they like. This is nothing to do with sexism, it is just economics.
MrShoryuken1 lmao
Spoken like a true loser who gets anything he has in life. Bitch if I give you 10 million a year you better make a profit in 22 years. That’s economics, and that’s me taking easy on you. Wnba is a non profit league lmao
Percentage of $-10,000,000 lol underrated comment
nobodybutme1000 owe? They’ve owed for decades why you think they act like they get gonna pay lol
The wnba is that sibling that bums money from you and when they see you making more they act like you haven't done anything for them.
I have always liked women's sports. Women's tennis, swimming, gymnastics, ice skating are all great fun to watch, so when the WNBA came out, I was excited. My original thought was that it would make professional basketball like the Olympics or the NCAA, giving us both men's and women's events, and... more basketball. I have been very disappointed. Even women's college ball is better than the WNBA. Is there anyone else out there that shares in my disappointment?
Let's be real would you be more excited if your local WNBA team won the championship or if you found $10?
Stevie Nines my local team is the lynx and I would trade all their championships for $10
At least quote the great Bill Burr when stealing his comedy
@@B3Band is that a Bill Burr quote?
I don’t even know who my
Local team is 😂
That’s not a very good point, I would trade NBA championships for $10 too. I watch the NBA all the time, but it doesn’t matter to me who wins.
The Houston comets won first 4 WNBA titles and they folded in 2008. Is proof enough the WNBA should be gone
That is back when I tried to watch . Cynthia Copper , married with children now , was a compelling figure to watch . Guys could bring their daughters to the games. They can't now.
I'm from Houston and I never knew of such a team!
Houston COMMENTS lol
Damn that's sad a dynasty team folded imagine the 60s Celtics having to fold
Damn i didnt know they was gone 👀
Percentage of nothing is still nothing tho. WNBA loses money, so if they got a percentage of that, the players would have to pay the league in order to play. Basically, wnba players are way overpayed.
You didn’t have to do’em like that son, they ded already! Have mercy 😂😂😂🤡🐸🤡
Facts
Goat of the comment section
Exactly what I was about to say
Not to mention they aren’t even that good
I’m 44 and well beyond my prime as an athlete and I have no doubt in my mind that I could beat any player in the WNBA 1:1. Not to be disrespectful. It’s just a fact.
Unless you former top pro no.
If they were paid a comparable percentage WNBA players would owe money at the end of the season.
The league loses money.
lol pay to play league
Raw Jew lol pay to play, might as well call is EAWNBA
God this ESPN woman is smug.
Bitch doesn't even support it herself.
That’s how people without a point typically speak.
Smugness, snark.
And stupid with her shit eating grin
Well, she works for ESPN, so smugness is to be expected.
That and "politics". 😞
yungmetroshotya 96 LMFAOOO
WNBA revenue was $60 million in 2019. NBA was $7 billion. WNBA players asking for even just $1 million salaries (forgot the ones who want millions a year) is the equivalent of NBA players asking for $116,666,667 a year. 😂
Quick math
💡bruh the only way niggas would watch that bs is they lower the rim to lyk 8 foot or sum 🚫🧢 so they could be windmillin n shit
I wanna see a bih do sum fuckin 360 under the legs type shi😂
Mic drop!!
It's actually much worse than that, since you have to factor in expenses. If you subtract operating costs, paying lots of coaches and staffs and gyms/arenas and practice facilities (everything except player salaries) the WNBA loses many millions. So if WNBA players' pay is simply made a split of the profits, each player would have to pay their teams many thousands to get to play for them.
Meanwhile of course, every NBA team is worth billions, and most owners profit many millions every season, and this would be true even if they suddenly doubled every NBA player's salary.
The bottom line, the WNBA doesn''t know how to market the players. They have beautiful athletes and are missing the marketing value.
Facts
They went the wrong route too. They could have started advertising these girls and getting people interested.
Instead they scream sexism and demand higher pay... so stupid.
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 Absolutely
98% of the players are gay., so that angles kinda out of it.
@@HoratioFitzbastard WTF, Tell me you was bored, drunk or tired when you decided to comment. First off, you have no way of knowing what percent of women in the league are gay, secondly, what does that have to do with my comment of marketing the players based on their beauty and talent. Third, work on yourself and try and figure out why you have an issue with who others sleep with.
ESPN is not about sports or facts, it's about agendas.
👍
No matter how PC you are very few people interested in Lesbians playing basketball !!!
Walter Cole the only lesbians that interest me are in pornos.
Katie is just reading what her ESPN masters put on the teleprompter.
Zeit Ghost that’s not true she’s the most biased person in that building
thats why i stopped watching it just trash
On a different note I am so proud of India's Women Cricket team. When a player was asked isn't she pissed that the men are paid 1 million dollars or above per season while they get paid 100k dollars, she smiled and said that when the women's cricket manage to bring equal revenues, she'd be the first one to ask for equal pay.
Parikshit bhaya wish kro k ye radical feminism india me na aye
@@gohelmehul4329 Bhai pseudo feminists to apna desh ma bhi bhar bhar k ha. Inko equality nhi chahia, inko bas better privileges chahia
@@EXploreWithPARIKSHIT tuje kya lgta h indian women vs western women kis k pas jyada privileges h?
Women’s Cricket is pretty legit
They got logical women in India.....must be nice 😔
There’s a video on TH-cam of Britney Griner missing warm up dunks on sports center that says imagine LeBron missing warm up dunks and that pretty much sums up the WNBA
And Spud Webb won the slam dunk competition at 5'6" with a 5'6 vertical. Nobody wants to see Griener
Britney is like 6'8" which is fucking sad.
@windows8253 Women are less athletic yes, but at that height, there's no excuses besides your lack of skill and athleticism. It really speaks for itself, which is sad (i did see a video of a guy who's supposedly 6'5 but can't dunk either lol)
And they were real basic rim grazing ones too
They need to lower the rim 😆
How are the players supposed to get a larger share of revenue when they're consistently losing money? At this point the WNBA should charge the players an entry fee to play.
true i play for a local league and we have to pay but we dont lose money lol
Katie Nolan is a professional sports reporter and you still did more homework than her.
Kevin, all Katie Nolan brings to the table is her physical appearance. Which seems to be a trend with women these days.
I kinda have the feeling that the homework you're asking from her can't be learned by having a bachelor of Arts in Public Relations with a minor in Dance from Hofstra University in 2009. I've never even been to the US, but my guess is that you would need like a journalism degree to be a professional... Of course, I could be wrong... If things in the US work differently that in the rest of the world.
more like a professional attention seeking individual
@@A.M.D.S. it's basic stuff a high school graduate should be able to do. This isn't like physics or calculus level courses which she doesn't need for her major
She's stating a point of view not facts that's a difference sports reporters even then they don't report all the facts they hide a lot of stuff
"THE WNBA IS ACTUALLY BETTER OFF!"
WOW! That is great! That means they can sever ties with the NBA and stand on their own without taking any money as an independent league right?
And gloriously crash and burn to ashes..i cant wait for that entitled bunch of so called athletes and executives to face the harsh reality of job searching
Nba vs wnba all stars will undoubtedly prove our point
@@bradleymalcolm7025 NBA G-League Vs WNBA all-stars will prove our point q
@@bradleymalcolm7025 They don't have to be better then the men they just have to put on a good product. They don't score. They play 40 minutes and average 59 points a game. NCAA Mens basketball plays the same amount of minutes, in two 20 minute halves instead of four 10 minute quarters, and score 68 points per game. That is unacceptable. Basketball is about scoring, I know we all love defense but seriously offense sells tickets, and the WNBA doesn't do it. They shoot for 32% from 3 point land as a league, the NBA shoots at a 36% clip from 3 and shoots the ball far more often from that range. The NBA has a pace of play average of 97. The women? 78. They are a slower worse shooting league.
All politics aside, the only reason the WBA even exists is that politics are not kept aside. Honestly? Watching the ladies play is like watching a so-so Junior Varsity High School game. At best. Mind you I am no male chauvinist pig, but simply said there are biological differences between the sexes. Females do other things better than males, and should stick to those things.{ don't like this wise ass smarmy bitch talking with an attitude like that either. A true Feminazi.
By the way, there is no rule in the NBA that restricts female players from joining. If the WNBA players were truly as good as NBA players, they could join the NBA.
Nah they can’t remember nba stands for no bitches allowed
@@ogloc4478 LMAO
In that case we should allow men to play in the WNBA
@@drewt2419 wnba has the word women in it. So nah, men can't enter.
@@NaveenAlpha W is welfare
Hahah, the WNBA gets an "allowance". When you need donations to keep things alive, it is not a business it is a hobby.
Bruh the only entertaining thing that happens in a WNBA game is all the airballs and fails😂
Where layups happen
Mr Tony Williams where tomorrow shouldn’t happen
Wordddd
Da womens are trying hard to figure out how they can blame men and demand even more cash from the NBA. It's an old story.
Facts.
They're confusing the WNBA with a divorce.
@@JM-fo1te There may be something deep about that. It appears like women all over the place think men owe them half of what they earn, just like a wife would in a divorce. For example, in cycling, the womens were literally demanding "half the road". They wanted half of everything: TV coverage, salaries, race opportunities. It's like now that more and more of them are single, they're treating men in general as their husband, and making the same demands on men in general as they would on a husband.
@@ClockCutter they're economically extractive, but only to things that have anything of value. They're not even discreet about it, anymore. If anything becomes popular enough, women will want a female version of it and just wait... paying their dues like a doomed marriage. Then, they pounce.
sounds like child support and alimony all in one
I guess the chick doesn't know about this concept called inflation either in 1969 a 1 dollar item would cost ab 6.89 dollars so the NBA was still technically worth more
mega man This Chick is known as Katie Nolan
She also failed to mention how the NBA in 1971 had a higher attendance average then the WNBA today and they did that in a much older generation where it was harder to market the product, you had no social media, not many television networks, advertisement wasn’t that big. WNBA is just a shitty product as of today.
She also fails to realize that approx. 207.7 million people resided in the continental US in 1971, which means that to make the numbers semi fair, you would have to multiply the 1971 NBA attendance numbers by give or take 1.58 to adjust for population
So basically this man dropped a 15 min roast that was so hard it actually ended her career
Don't criticize Katie Nolan for not going to WNBA games... They're unwatchable
I don't mind that Katie Nolan doesn't go to WNBA games but it doesn't give her the right to be a hypocrite either.
Dirt ObseXXion: Utter bullshit.
Wow after 11 minutes he tells how Katie Nolan has not been seen in any games and that is devastating...shows she is completely empty of content.
😂😂😂
Dirt ObseXXion nah bro how could you not enjoy watching air balls and no dunks for a couple of hours
Their All-Star should have a "lay-up contest", I'm sure that will boost the ratings up
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Still would miss like 3 or 4 times before they make it lol
Awe man 😂😂😂 im fuckinnn weaakkk
Blake Pierce They should have a free throw contest against the worst free thrower ever named Shaq lol I bet he would still beat them.
They're going to need a step ladder
Drake’s concert in Washington grossed more money than the whole WNBA’s league history 😂
Wow, I didn't know that Drake was a racist/misogynist. How could he do such a thing? #canceldrake
@@jonm9538 Twitter be like
What the fuck is a drake?
@@joecasey8202 Ask your mom.
@@joecasey8202 ask your step dad or uncle
Adam Silver “ We still have a number of teams(wnba) losing money.” the number he will not say is twelve.
Stop saying "alternative facts" . The word you're looking for is lying.
It's such a glaring euphemism it should be more embarrassing that calling it "LIES!!".
Eric Jackson blame your president Donald Trump and his team for making “alternative facts” an actuality!
The word choice is perfect. It really emphasizes the fact that the strategies used by these people are immoral and deliberate.
No because that throws away all his credibility
which would be the mainstream medias fault for engaging in
Did she really reference the NBA’s financials from 1968 lol
What else did she have to work with? It’s pretty hard to prove something that is blatantly untrue.
TowerofTerror23 and attendance from the 70’s 😂😂😂. She should be ashamed. People believe these people in the media.
TheJohnnystockman dawg, the sparks giveaway floor tickets to fans for free here in LA
@@TheJohnnystockman i know. because the 70s are anywhere close to now lol. hell the game of basketball itself wasnt even that old at that time.
She also did not factor inflation into the revenue numbers, nor did she mention that the NBA didn’t receive millions from another league to stay relevant (ie 12 mil annually from the NBA to the WNBA)....
If wnba's players were paid what they actually deserve they all would be homeless
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Facts
Facts!
You do realize they all put in the work to be the top athletes of the world? And that they’re actually good but you’re just sexist
Ryu Pelayo Watch a WBNA game and tell me that they're good players.
Hearing all these female ballers accomplishments just like "who?"
That's kinda sad lol
The general manager for capital one arena was like hell naw I ain't booking that WNBA finals here, the $1047 in ticket sales doesn't even cover the damn janitors for the night!
That was my favorite part of the video hahaha
People rather watch Drake than a WNBA Finals game. Heck, I'd rather watch the Democratic National Convention, if it was being held at Capital One Arena, than the WNBA Finals
ESPN is a joke now, too much politics.
Full of clowns
I remember back in the day Payton Manning asked someone " would you rather your local WNBA team win the National championship or have $3" 😂
Most people answered "What the hell is the WNBA?"
@@austin9917 there's never tax on food. So 3 tacos. Sweet!
@@austin9917 here in ohio, i think they only charge tax on fast food if you eat inside, although they'll always charge tax on a drink.
@@austin9917 where the hell do you live where groceries aren't taxed cause im moving there
Walter Johnson well i’ve lived and visited most states and taxes on essentials (uncooked foods and the like being essential) are rare. A lot of states don’t tax clothes. (PA being a big one) Delaware taxes very little but I wouldn’t move there.
They still get payed thousands of dollars to play a game nobody watches. What is there to complain about? I’d be happy with that
When you attend an NBA game, you're paying for the WNBA.
When you pay your taxes you're paying for the NBA (tax breaks, subsidies, stadiums, etc.).
Jrustless Na lol
WNBA is a shit league and doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the nba.
I believe in equality only if the talent was equal
@Jrustless Na Yeah, that's what echo chambers are like.
@@yessum15 - And the NBA pays for the WNBA. So in other words, even with the WNBA receiving tax payer incentive AND a yearly check from the NBA they're still unable to make a profit. There's either something wrong with the business model or the product isn't worth what they think it should be.
Regardless, the WNBA more closely resembles a patient that's been in a persistent vegetative state for 22 years than it does a living, breathing entity. People like you continue to hold out hope that sitting at the bedside and praying will cause them to wake up one day. But the only thing keeping them alive is the life support of the NBA.
@@colin1818 You're pretty much just making shit up. There's no evidence the WNBA is not profitable. They made $60 million from gate sales alone and many millions more from streaming sales (at an all time high), merch, and licensing.
Independant journalists have confirmed that management was concealing revenue streams.
Management was feigning a lack of profitability to gain leverage during salary negotiations. They provided zero evidence of any of the financial worries they were lying about.
This video is a year old. Since then, management admitted that they have been underpaying the players and agreed to a significant bump in salaries.
The NBA does not give the WNBA money. The NBA invests in the WNBA because it gives them a good return on investment. This is called diversifying.
This is an extremely accurate video. I have a degree in sport business, and quite honestly, no one in the industry understands why the WNBA exists anymore outside of it being charity by the NBA.
They are a tax write off
Money laundering
So women can have a professional league and get recognition, but unfortunately it’s loosing money
@@jakem7 almost no one knows or cares about who they are..
Love the bit where you show Katie Nolan doesn't even support the WNBA herself. The hypocrisy hurts my soul.
Bruh she works in media thier whole motto is
" Do as I say, not as I do"
She’s hunting for a rich husband, and WNBA games are a desert for that demographic.
I like how her weekend update style humor is such a dead miss. She seems super out of touch and douchy. Just stfu
She's gotten a lot of attention from men so far because of her looks, and she thinks her alleged brains and wise-ass attitude are the reason. The cold reality will hit her smack in the face when the Wall comes and no one pays her attention anymore.
@@libertydrive4388 The Wall is undefeated.
If attendence goes up, tv ratings go up, advertisement and endorsement will follow, and naturally pay will go up.
If I got free tickets, I still wouldn't go cause I gotta wash my hair
Lol u bald though
@@coolguy2418 COVID self haircut
Now would you rather have a root canal lol
@@ryanmccombs7874 I've had 3 and 2 extractions due to cracks, yes rather do that then sit through an WNBA game
@@coolguy2418 that's the joke my guy
WNBA is a joke. Maya Moore(one of the best WNBA players) is out for the season because she wanted to spend time with her family. Wtf, they play like 40 games and have a long offseason
TrikShotsGaming they get paid more overseas so I’d venture to guess she’d rather miss some of the lower paying season to spend time with family. (Assuming she plays in 2 leagues)
TrikShotsGaming 90% of the women in the league play overseas during the off-season .. dumb fuck
Willie Prescott III no reason to be mad
Lmao most go play overseas for their offseason so they legit HAVE no break. Do research man.
@@namtiddies1353 that's the thing. No one cares to look into women's basketball 🤣
Suppose a stadium costs $1 million to run for a day.
If a men's game makes $100 million a game, that is 1% of the revenue to run the stadium.
If a women's game makes $10 million a game, that is 10% of the revenue to run the stadium.
That's why percentages are different.
You are right, but there's less than 0% possibility that a WNBA game makes $10 million in revenue. Since they paper the house for pretty much every game, and tickets generally go for about 10 bucks a piece, they aren't even hitting the $1 million dollar mark. So pretty much every game is operating at a loss.
@@pocobull he was using those numbers for simplicity, nobody thinks the wnba gets nearly that much a game
@@boardzy Ya, I really need to stop sniffing glue before I respond to people's TH-cam comments.
@@pocobull ahaha
This was top notch
My guy even went on the chick's IG to call her out
This is some high level calling out
Spud Webb was 5'7" - immeasurably more impressive dunks than you'll ever see in the WNBA if you give it another 100 years and 7' players. ;o)
Fuck dunks
None of the women there have handles or passing abilities or finishing abilities
Like there is literally nothing
SUPERSTAR_H_GAMER they can’t even shoot
This is why you don’t watch ESPN. Every segment they air could probably be ripped to shreds like this.
ESPN is best watched on mute.
If someone put a gun to my head and told me to name a WNBA team, tell my family I love them
Just make up a name. He probably doesn't know any either.
@@izaccsgansit3507 I can't stop laughing!
ESPN used to watch EVERY night, now they have gone WOKE. Now they
have an agenda so I don`t watch. If the gals WANT equal pay, just make
a men's PRO team. Show you have the skills to be a top player, gender be damned!
Just tired of woman whining about receiving things they didn't earn. I can't even watch ESPN because of their PC bullshit.
white people
Van Long
...are a race, yes. Very good Van.
Lol
The way I look at it is CFL and the NFL. If people in the CFL demanded the money from the NFL people would laugh at them. I don’t see why this is any different.
They did throw Manziel at the CFL
Very bad comparison. 🤦🏻♂️ CFL is in a totally different market and it’s mostly washed players.
@@kalijasin not really
CFL operates at a profit
CFL is more respectable than the WNBA, it’s more comparable to the Lady’s Football League where they only wear panties and bras while playing football
So if there are roughly 200 WNBA players and the league loses $10 million per year, each player needs to PAY the owners $50,000 to continue the league.
I know youre trying to make a joke but that is retarded.
Roqfort it’s not a joke it’s just another fact homie
@@roqfortt facts are no joke
So by Katie’s logic… any company looking to improve its business should give their employees raises!
The Houston Comets, tied as the winningest WNBA team in history, no longer exists. Imagine what it would say about the league if the Lakers or Celtics went bankrupt.
No way the Comets folded? Lmao they and the LA Sparks were the only two teams i knew of.
The Comets folded back in 2008. Despite winning 4 consecutive championships they are hardly mentioned when talking about Houston championship teams. Its Rockets and now Astros.
good to know, i'm from houston btw
or imagine if the most storied franchise in NBA history was forced to relocate for financial reasons, say from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. Totally crazy thought, right?
“We dont know where the money is coming from.” Yes you do its the nba 💀💀
we don't know where our money is coming from is never a good thing for a business to utter
fr lower the rims in wnba to 8 ft so that 5% of the players can dunk and that would at least double the fan base from 50ppl to 100ppl
Danny M you mean 0 times 2 equals 0
Whoah now. I don’t know if their stadiums are capable of handling that many people.
I still wouldn’t care. Don’t think anyone else would either.
The WNBA has been around for 25 years. Average game viewership on ESPN and other channels is between 300,000 and 350,000. Average annual costs of running the league is 20M. The income (revenue) is about 10M and they receive a "donation" from the NBA every year of about 10M. This league has never turned a profit.
Free tickets to playoff games...... shut it down smh
I agree with You TOTALLY ...... BUT , I was shocked to learn that when Bobby Thomson hit His "shot heard round the world" to win the 1951 pennant at the Polo Grounds the Capacity was 56,000 ..... How many people attended that game ? 34,000 ..... BUT , They didn't give away tkts .......
Steven Attanasso There was something going on that men were pretty busy with called the korean war....what was holding up the hoardes of fans from this wnba game again?
@@Doors067 Ridiculous assumption ..... The Korean War kept people from attending that game ? OK .... My Father was in the Military during the Korean War (Radar Man on an Aircraft Carrier) and He attended THAT GAME ..... Are You now going to tell Me He was a Traitor ?
Steven Attanasso Hows it ridiculous if people in point A are over in point B during time period that attendence at point A suffers....
@@Doors067 The population of the US at the time of that playoff game was 155 million ..... Even if 10 million men were off fighting the Korean War that leaves 145 million Americans to attend a playoff game ..... THAT is what makes Your original statement ridiculous in My opinion .....
Make better uniforms lower the rim and you’ll become profitable it’s really that simple 🤷🏻♂️
Yooo you got something here!
But I can already see feminist coming in hot on our asses.
Stop the lesbians catcalling to underage girls
I don't understand how it's so horrible to lower the rim, even though the ball is substantially smaller than the Men's ball. Why is one way worse than the other?
They don’t want to get use to shooting at a different angle but the games are low scored anyways so it wouldn’t make that much of a difference
Adam Silver: “Women’s basketball is largely supported by older men ... who like fundamental basketball.” I guarantee you most of them are not there to watch fundamental basketball.
Most of the players look like dudes....so I'm not sure what they where watching.
@@ravensclaw1339 Well they are old dudes watching, the game is slower, so they can follow, their eyes can keep up basically.
@@hds66nl29 Nah. NBA is a different game, essentially. Everyone is a bizarre physical specimen and the game becomes warped because of it. Lots of people don't like it because of that.
A not uncommon opinion are people who love college hoops but won't give the NBA the time of day. WNBA appeals to those same people.
@@rwaitt14153 I was just joking. But reading your comment that does make sence, a lot.
@@rwaitt14153 nah no one watches wnba cuz its a shut product 10000000%
Simple fact when a company or business doesn't turn a profit in 25 years it should fold
It should be mandatory for every woman in the me too movement to attend at least 3 WNBA games a year. Its supposed to be about sharing traumatic experiences right?
Curtis Ball 💀💀💀💀💀
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Daniel Roberts dang
😂😂😂😂😂 exactly
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"Women are strong and independent."
Also
"Our league doesnt attract enough attention for us to make the money we want for getting the opportunity to play our favourite sport as a career so the mens league should pay the difference."
N then we'll shit on them every chance we get n demand more of their money
didnt two of the best players in the wnba play in the celebrity game and still play average
The WNBA doesn't even schedule half the games the NBA has. Each team plays 25-32 games in a season. If they ever think about playing at the same time as the NBA? Say goodbye to the WNBA, ESPN will not carry their games in conflict with the NBA.
*Where do you think all the money comes from that allows them to play in the first place?* *_It's coming from the NBA coffer!_* *WNBA loses over $10 million dollars a year!* *NBA management has been hoping that in time the WNBA would become a profitable business like women's soccer has. That never happened.*
Typical attitude of women. No accountability No responsibility No leadership. Just crying for more more more
9/30 are losing money versus a blanket loss across a single league. Considerable difference.
And when they researched it there was only one that lost money Cleveland .
I love when they think they’re making a good point and they’re all smiling but your just sitting their like “ wtf did I just listen to”
The WNBA plays in the summer with the MLB as the only major competitor. How in the world the WNBA is supposed to compete during the fall/winter seasons with the NBA, the NHL and the NFL ? It makes no damn sense.
And now they have competition from the BIG3 league.
I think one idea put out there was to use them basically as opening acts for the mens games in markets that have both WNBA and NBA teams. Of course, if you give that 5 seconds' worth of thought, you start wondering, "Exactly how late would they have to start the men's games then?"
@@AJHart-eg1ys yeah that's an interesting idea but I can only see that driving down the sales of the men's games too. No one wants to watch women's basketball. There are only a few wnba players that are actually good at the sport anyway. Reggie Miller's sister was legit and even he said that she normally beat him and his friends.
Agreed
Very true, if the WNBA can’t compete with only the MLB in summer, then how can they compete against NHL, NBA, NFL, and NCAA basketball and football in the fall and winter.
Your wrecked her entire argument
@@franciscoramirez5152 him and 3 other niggas
Goku can't win a fight anymore landing a couple a blows here and there ain't mean shit you win when you knock niggas out
She never had an argument. Just used portions of articles and info that conveientiely fit into the narrative she was trying to push (feminism). The narrative of the left always gets destroyed because they live in the Land of Make-Believe and feel that people are stupid and will believe anything they say. That doesn't fly in this day and age with all the info so readily available. Easily exposed just like any other liberal
@@beastofman77 100% facts!
@Throngdorr Mighty I know right! All of us Americans getting screwed working real jobs! Damn!
Most of these aren't alternative facts. They're just straight up lies.
Yeah, probably doesn‘t want to get sued
Katie Nolan was actually speaking closer to the truth than this TH-cam guy is. She's off about a few details, but she's generally correct. This TH-cam guy's financial analysis is bullshit.
The point of the original broadcast is that we cannot accurately assess the claims as to whether the WNBA is losing money or not without a clear understanding of their financials, which the league is not willing to provide.
Losing money means your revenue is smaller than your expenses, but if you refuse to publish your expenses then you could actually be very profitable while inflating your costs and pretending to operate at a loss.
If league administrators are awarding themselves high salaries and ridiculous perks, then they could burn through the revenue fairly quickly and still claim to 'operate at a loss'. I suspect that this is what is actually happening, otherwise they would have shut down the league a long time ago.
It should also be noted that in the economy at large, labor receives about 60% of revenue of a typical business. In the NBA, labor receives 50%. In the WNBA, it's less than 20% (we can't tell how much less because they're hiding the data, but there is evidence to believe it's significantly less).
At any level of revenue, turning a profit or otherwise, there is no excuse of the administration to be eating 80% of revenue. Keep in mind that bringing *all 140+ players* of the WNBA up to a fair level of pay would cost a total of $14 million, which is less than the pay of a single mediocre NBA player. They are asking for very little indeed.
Finally I should point out that the statistics released by WNBA administration do not include a number of major revenue streams including merchandising, licensing, streaming fees, etc.
@@yessum15 They literally can't even give away enough tickets to fill a WNBA game. There have been NBA games in the pandemic times with higher attendance.
There's NO WAY they could be turning in the profit you're imagining. Estimates put the WNBA somewhere around 60 million. You could give them 100% of the profits and they'd all only make 428k. The current salary cap is about half that (215k). There's absolutely no way you could make a sizable proportion of the players into millionaires.
The players currently make an estimated 12.8 million. That IS about 21%, but that doesn't mean the other 80% is greedy executives. The venues alone probably cost tens of millions of dollars a year, because the venues aren't going to be hosting games to make money from the gates, since they're only making 134k (before their own costs) from the average 7716 fans who attend, and that's assuming they're all buying an average priced tickets (which they're not).
It's really nice to pretend it's just because of greedy corporate executives, but when you can't even give away 20 dollar tickets, there's a realistic cap to how much the league can be making, especially in comparison for a league that sells out venues with tickets four times as costly. There isn't even any hypothetical money in the league for the greedy execs to steal.
@@IncredibleMD 1) Who said anything about making the players millionaires? You're the only person suggesting that. All the players combined make less than a single mediocre NBA player makes. We're not asking to bump them to millionaires.
2) The only request is to bump them up to a level of revenue share that is at least within the range that a typical American worker gets.
3) Your estimates of their revenue are wildly inaccurate. Why do I say that? Because again, the league keeps that information concealed. They are only reporting revenue from 2 of something like 8 revenue streams. All merchandising, licensing, streaming, online, gambling, advertising, tv broadcasting, etc. revenue is still secret. $52 million is the minimum possible estimate one can make from available data, with the majority coming from gate sales. Realistically they are pulling in significantly more than that.
4) I don't think you understand how arena pricing works.
Yes. The WNBA gives away a lot of tickets. They also sell a lot of tickets. They are performing in venues larger than their audience, so they give away cheap seats. However, the events are still profitable. This is for a few reasons:
a) they are charged less for use of the same venue as the NBA (combination of off-peak scheduling, reduced staffing at the event, and pre-existing relationship with owners). Remember: to get the arena you don't have to draw a full crowd - you only have to draw a bigger crowd than anyone else who is available that particular night. The fixed cost for arena management is high, but their variable costs are negligible. They will host anyone on that basis.
b) When the cost of the event exceeds predicted revenue they are quick to relocate/reschedule to drop the costs such that each event remains profitable. There are a number of highly profitable sports leagues that use this same model.
5) If the 80%+ administrative overhead cost is all totally legit why is management so adamant about not revealing how they're spending the money? Why are their expenses so mysterious? Why are they concealing the full amount of their revenue? Why are all estimates of WNBA revenue based on 3rd party speculation?
You do understand that the first rule in the book of negotiation is to tell people you're broke, right? This is literally standard operating procedure. But common sense makes would make anyone ask how that jives with the fact that none of the league administrators have seriously suggested shuttering the doors (or even scaling back operations slightly)?
Let me be clear:
*You have no evidence that the WNBA is not profitable because management is concealing the full extent of their revenue and the nature of their expenses.*
Given that they continue to expand and no one has suggested downsizing the business, the scientific approach is to treat this as a lie until contradictory evidence emerges.
Now the only question to ask is whether it is moral to treat labor costs as variable while refusing to even glance at administrative costs.
No. If a business is going to pay its employees so far below the going percentage rate of all American workers, then they better have some damn good evidence that they are about to shut down. We have none here.
@@yessum15 20% is FAR more than the average company spends on payroll. They give away the cheap seats AND NO ONE TAKES THE TICKETS. The fixed cost for arena management is high, and 30% capacity when 50% of the people in attendance didn't even pay for their ticket is not going to cover that.
If your sports league can only play when no one else wants to use the stadium, it's not a very profitable sports league.
The owner of the New York Liberty owner said that about half of their 9,000 person attendance was from free tickets. In an arena of almost 20,000. Half the league's teams saw attendance increases in that season, but the Liberty moving to the 5,000 capacity Westchester County Center alone resulted in a decrease in overall league attendance. The Chicago Sky and LA Sparks are the only teams with 2019 seasons that significantly outperformed their first season. Meanwhile, the Liberty went from 13.2k in 1997 to 2k in 2019. The Mystics went from 15.9k to 4.5k. If your fans aren't dedicated enough to make the drive from MSG to fucking WESTCHESTER, they're not dedicated at all.
No one's suggested closing the league because look how much of a fuss people raise when women are paid only 150,000 bucks to pay highschool freshman tier basketball. You'd be the biggest sexist in sports if you suggested closing down the league just because it's never been profitable. It'd be a PR nightmare, and might even cause them to lose money from the product that actually matters.
The NBA keeps the WNBA afloat out of charity. The owner of the New York Liberty basically said that explicitly when he was looking to sell it a few years back.He was losing money on it every year.
If the NBA wanted the WNBA to die, all they'd have to do is sever ties with it. I'm sure the constantly airing commercials featuring WNBA players will keep them afloat. They've had marquee sponsors for the last 11 years (of a 22 year old league that had the biggest at launch support of any professional sports league). Well, except for the Atlanta Dream. I guess they'd fold.
I can't imagine why they're having such a hard time getting sponsors. Thanks in large part to being part of a package deal with the NBA, WNBA television views went up a whopping 64% last season! That's 413,000 people they could be reaching! The League high TV ratings were 0.6. That's about equal with the Atlanta Hawks, the seventh worst performing team in the NBA.
I once asked a woman who is going on about this if she watches the games, buys tickets and swag to support the teams.. you already know the answer
I did a paper on the marketing of the WNBA; I could not believe the amount of misinformation there was about it...especially from Forbes. Great research and work thus far on your WNBA coverage.
"The next time I watch a WNBA game will be the first time I watch a WNBA game" - Norm MacDonald
When journalists turned themselves into politicians the world was lost.
XD everything is political,journalism is not an excepction.
A good journalist has a moral compass, a bad one have a wallet
Translation: I don't need Viagra when Trump brags about rape...
@ haha what
Thanks rush Limbaugh
@@josue24 Limbaugh doesn't claim to be a journalist and never has. So there's that.