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re: Caitlin Clark’s WNBA salary
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:25 pm to boston vol
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:25 pm to boston vol
quote:She needs to cash in now while she can. This is probably going to be the peak of her fame and popularity.
She’s already made over $3 million due to her NIL deals. She’ll be raking in a ton of cash through endorsements.
WNBA season will probably start off with lots of hype and interest, mainly because of Clark. But I think that interest probably fades as the season goes on. Late-season WNBA and their playoffs go up against the start of football season and MLB playoffs. She won't be one of the lead stories on ESPN every other day once that happens.
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:32 pm to boston vol
I know she probably wants to play in the WNBA but she’s a fool not to take Ice Cubes offer of $5 million to play for the Big 3. She’ll never make $5 million in here WNBA career
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:40 pm to SWLA92
She'll be raking in more endorsement dough if she gets picked for the Olympic team.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:41 pm to ctiger69
Atleast it's Indiana where the cost of living isn't insane. How do you live on that in NYC or LA?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:41 pm to ctiger69
The WNBA is subsidized by the NBA and for all their lefty bullshite, you won't see any of those players giving up salary to compensate the WNBA players.
It's a losing business model. Expenses > Revenue. Negative unit economics. They quite literally cannot get people to pay more for the product than it costs them to provide it.
Nobody gives a shite about women playing basketball, just like nobody gives a shite about male models. The money goes where the value is.
It's a losing business model. Expenses > Revenue. Negative unit economics. They quite literally cannot get people to pay more for the product than it costs them to provide it.
Nobody gives a shite about women playing basketball, just like nobody gives a shite about male models. The money goes where the value is.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:43 pm to Diseasefreeforall
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She'll be raking in more endorsement dough if she gets picked for the Olympic team.
She'll make the team just for the exposure I bet.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:47 pm to GetCocky11
She will stick because the media wants her to stick. No one really gives a shite about women’s basketball but damn the media wants us to
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:48 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Are you sad a sanitation workers makes $50k?
Yes.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 12:49 pm to ctiger69
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2024: $76,535
2025: $78,066
2026: $85,873
2027 (fourth-year option): $97,582
Which begs the question, who paid for that ridiculous spectacle that was the WNBA draft? Acting like it was the Oscars. Well, we all know.... NBA pays TV, instead of the normal, other way around.
Keyshawn Johnson admitted, "I thought the WNBA players made at least $500k a year, I don't know why I thought that?"
You know why you thought that. The manufactured marketing lie about the league being sold to the public.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:08 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I’m sure there will be some white knights to come along and tell me how I’m an incel and I hate women but in reality most women just suck at basketball. I tried watching the LSU women’s team and their level of play is just subpar. If I enjoy basketball, why would I ever watch women’s basketball over men’s basketball unless I’m just trying to be equitable
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:45 pm to LSU fan 246
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If my company made zero dollars, I'd make zero dollars. She's getting a good deal imo
It's a weird loop here in that Caitlin Clark the "brand" is clearly worth millions, but Caitlin Clark the player is not worth 10% of that.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:56 pm to SWLA92
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I know she probably wants to play in the WNBA but she’s a fool not to take Ice Cubes offer of $5 million to play for the Big 3.
I was about to ask what became of that. Did she formally decline it or is that still on the table?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 1:59 pm to OvertheDwayneBowe
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It's a weird loop here in that Caitlin Clark the "brand" is clearly worth millions, but Caitlin Clark the player is not worth 10% of that.
Eh that's true for the top of the line NBA players too. Just on a larger scale. Isn't Lebron's net worth north of a billion? His NBA salary is not even $50 mil, or not even 5% of his net worth
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:05 pm to BayouBandit24
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Doesn’t the WNBA lose money every year?
They'll be petitioning the government to subsidize the league soon.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:08 pm to nicholastiger
quote:she actually hit the lottery going to Indianapolis. she'll do just fine off of that there i imagine (not counting for endorsements obviously)
Not to mention, most players are single, and you have to live in cities that aren't cheap to live in
You can't live in New York for that salary
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:13 pm to Tiger Prawn
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Late-season WNBA and their playoffs go up against the start of football season and MLB playoffs. She won't be one of the lead stories on ESPN every other day once that happens.
NEVER underestimate ESPN’s commitment to shove a fringe product down our throats. Especially if they have the TV rights to that product.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:16 pm to WaterLink
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I know she probably wants to play in the WNBA but she’s a fool not to take Ice Cubes offer of $5 million to play for the Big 3.
I was about to ask what became of that. Did she formally decline it or is that still on the tabl
im guessing it wasnt true. If so she'd be a fool not to take it, or at least try to do both WNBA and Big 3.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:20 pm to elposter
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NEVER underestimate ESPN’s commitment to shove a fringe product down our throats. Especially if they have the TV rights to that product
Is it really shoving down your throat? ESPN exists to display and promote sports. The WNBA is a sports league.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:31 pm to BayouBandit24
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Doesn’t the WNBA lose money every year? They are fortunate to be getting paid at all. I don’t say that as a hater either, just the reality of it.
Not even the LFL lost money every year...
Posted on 4/16/24 at 2:55 pm to ctiger69
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2024: $76,535
2025: $78,066
2026: $85,873
2027 (fourth-year option): $97,582
That's just crazy. LA Lakers won their in-season tourney and each got $500,000. With ESPN carrying so many WNBA games and having regional TV, that king of chump change doesn't even make sense.
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