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  1. Cardoso should be the best player on the team - she was the #3 pick for a reason - but is entirely too boom or bust game to game to be considered. She has incredible games and (aside from a 6 game stretch earlier in the year) then disappears. She can't be counted on to give consistent effort and production. You don't need to be a 3 time MVP to call out a bullshit FO. What are they going to do, let her walk? That's exactly what she's going to want to do in 2 years after Chicago gives up top 3 picks in the 2026 & 2027 (that have already been traded away in swaps) and is unable to sign any FAs. The Chicago GM traded the #3 pick and possibly the #1 pick in 2026 for Ariel Atkins and then signed 36 year old Sloot to be the PG on a rebuilding team. They have no clue what they are doing - and the rest of the WNBA, including the players, know it.
  2. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make - that Angel Reese isn't as good as the 3-time MVP? No shit. The fact that A'ja Wilson would struggle to get this team to .500 is exactly the point. What Angel is is far and away the best player on the Sky roster. A roster completely mismanaged by a joke of a GM and the worst FO and ownership group in the WNBA (and its not even close). I expect Reese to leave - just like Fowles and Elena Delle Donne before her. https://www.sbnation.com/wnba/1078301/angel-reese-comments-chicago-sky-right-mismanagement
  3. Circumventing the salary cap to sign Joe Smith cost the Timberwolves 5 first round picks. The precedent has been set.
  4. Well, see, that gets to the crux of it. For fans like you there is nothing they could say, for or against, that wouldn't lead to criticism - so they don't really give a fuck what you want or think. They've (players) have actually been pretty clear that you're not the fan they're courting. So, instead, they'll do what every other union has done and they will ask for the moon and settle for what they can get.
  5. I mean, NBA players don't want them either.
  6. Putting here because it is recruiting related:
  7. Probably the best game in two seasons for the Sky's Twin Towers
  8. PK is, by all accounts, as low-ego a guy as you'll find. He took a demotion at Washington so that Jimmy Lake could be the DC to ensure that Lake stayed on staff. He's had plenty of opportunities to interview or take a HC job but appears to be completely uninterested. I expect he's going to allow Akina pretty wide latitude in technique and scheme that the back end of the defense plays.
  9. Napier will be owed approx 20 million if he's fired after the 2025 season (contract states he gets 85% of remaining money if he's terminated without cause)
  10. You're the guy whose family has blocked him for posting those AI news articles on Facebook aren't you?
  11. A lot of axe throwing. I also once saw several hours dedicated to a bunch of people tossing a football around a vent pipe on a roof.
  12. Of course. It was meant tongue-in-cheek. That said - there were plenty of people wondering about the viability of the league - Magic/Bird and then a few years later Jordan changed all of that.
  13. 30 years after the NBA started they were airing the Finals on tape delay.
  14. Her first three years were incredibly disappointing. But in the last 5 seasons, since she returned from an Achilles injury that cost her the entire 2020 season, she has won 6POY, been on the WNBA 1st team and has been a 4 time All-Star.
  15. These women all have overseas options. Many of those teams pay better than the WNBA and include benefits such as housing and travel allowances. Always cracks me up when fans side with the billionaire owners over those ‘selfish’ players.
  16. As I already pointed out - the NBA wasn't subsidizing the WNBA out of altruism. They were getting a return even if it wasn't showing up in the WNBA's ledger. The Golden State Warriors were brought up to show how insignificant the 40 million dollars in losses is compared to the 10s of billions in revenue the NBA collects. That 40 million was 3/10ths of 1% of the NBA's total revenue. It was equivalent to an MLE contract. Patrick Williams, a shitty PF and roughly the 8th best player on the Bulls could subsidize the WNBA for two years on his contract alone. The Bucks just paid Damien Lillard 113 million to go away and not play for them. That 40 million means nothing to the NBA and subsidizing the WNBA was/is the equivalent of a 3 month long commercial to grow the game. Yes, Caitlin Clark is a huge part of the recent surge in popularity the WNBA is experiencing and that will help to drive the new CBA (which Caitlin will benefit from). I'm not sure it really needs to be said, but if that somehow validates you - there you go. But Caitlin won't see your post and she's definitely not going to fuck you. 20 years of losses have nothing to do with this current crop of players - as you yourself have said, the player leading this new wave of excitement is only in her second season.
  17. That's an incredibly shitty, and not true, analogy. A more accurate analogy would be a C-list actor on a low budget TV show asking for a raise after the show he's on gets syndicated and the revenues go up 400% overnight. WNBA players get anywhere between 9% and 20% of league revenue (depending on source). NBA players get 50% (as do MLB, NFL players get 48%). It is my understanding that WNBA players are asking for the similar % of revenue as these other leagues. Obviously their salaries will be much lower - but they wound be earning the same % as their NBA counterparts.
  18. I expect that will be the owners/investors argument in this CBA negotiation. But if we're looking at it honestly - I assume that 40 million was nothing more than a line item in the NBA's marketing budget. The NBA wasn't supporting the WNBA out of a sense of altruism or because of a deep love for their mother. The WNBA was a tool to grow the game for a demographic that represents just under 50% of the population. I think the NBA has definitely been reaping the benefits of growing that group of fans. Totally anecdotal - but my daughter became a huge NBA fan by first being interested in, and attending, WNBA games. And to put that 40 million into perspective. That is a little over 10% of what one single team in the NBA makes in revenue in one season (on average NBA teams make approx 353 million per year in revenue per Forbes). 10 years of WNBA losses equates to half of what the Golden State Warriors made in revenue last leason.
  19. Thanks - I tried to edit when I realized that 250 number was only for the most recent three but the edit timed out.
  20. Expansion fees for each team were 250 million in this latest round of expansion (6 clubs total). That 1.5 billion should easily offset whatever dilution to TV revenue the original 12 are about to experience.
  21. For those unaware - the WNBA just signed an 11yr 2.2 billion dollar TV deal that will likely grow to 3 billion once other TV partners are included. That will raise the TV revenue from the approx 60 million a year they get now to anywhere between 200-300 million a year starting next season.
  22. Why do you watch?
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