Agree completely. 22% of something is better than 50% of nothing.
Agree completely. 22% of something is better than 50% of nothing.
Plus, Patrick takes the players’ salaries and describes that as the labor costs. There are many people working for the teams, not just the players. There are security, ushers, travel coordinators etc. For the NBA, these costs are likely negligible, but for the WNBA, it is a larger percentage of the income. Add in the…
They make a smaller percentage of revenue BECAUSE there’s less revenue to be shared. Operating costs don’t increase 1 to 1 with revenue, so the NBA has a smaller percentage of costs. If the WNBA bumped player salary to 50% like the NBA then they would be operating at a loss. It’s simple. I’d love for WNBA players to…
Seems like the economics of the WNBA are pretty lousy for all involved. Maybe a better idea would be to disband the league, so that its players can make more money playing overseas.
I know this isn’t going to go well but is it possible that they only receive 20% of revenue because the WNBA as a whole is NOT as profitable as the NBA? They have to pull less revenue because the cost of running the league is equal to the NBA but the revenue is not equal to the NBA? I could be mistaken but last time…
Let’s play spot the REAL racist:
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Prove that Vox is pocketing massive profits (instead of relying on their valuation, which is driven as much or more by their platform and network as it is a business model reliant on underpaid labor) and you’ve got yourself a story. You’ve never done that, probably because that…