The WNBA is an inspiration to my grandma. She was paralyzed for 13 years but one day while a WNBA game was on the TV she was able to get up and go turn it off.
Back in 2006, this girl who I went to junior high with was going to sing the national anthem at the NY Liberty game. I was a teen and went to a private school so I had no ID. The tickets were at will call for me and my boy. The ticketing lady wouldn’t give me the tickets because I couldn’t “ prove “ who I am. I told her respectfully who would want to steal WNBA tickets. She thought about it and gave them to me 😂.
The most interesting thing the WNBA has had happen was that 1 player getting traded for a war criminal. Britney Griner for the lord of war, makes sense.
Imagine a customer telling you what you could do to gain their business, but instead of listening, you do the the opposite and demand more money. Then you turn around and blame the customers for your failing business and insist your product is great, even though no one is buying it. They are absolutely ruled by their emotions.
You forgot that they are mad that white people are their fans with sold out arenas to watch CC because they are mostly old white men. They are so dense they have no idea that's the only fans they ever had.
The New York Liberty had to do that. They were losing money playing in Madison Square Garden, they had to move to a smaller 5K seat arena to keep operating costs low
I'm going to be brutally honest, the entitlement of WNBA players has ensured that no matter what changes they make, I'll never even consider watching a game. There's nothing about having an ugly attitude that makes people want to support you.
You Forgot About The Shorter Season Too !! 😮SMELL THE B. S.!!! WOMEN AREN'T HOLDING UP THEIR END .MAYBE GET SOME OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES TO FIGHT IN THE STANDS OR KIM AND HER CLAN TO SHOW UP !!!😮
Not even Caitlin Clark can save them. I’m extremely skeptical. One player cannot save the league and lets not get started with how much drama based it is to be in the team. Clark much rather be in a college home like Iowa.
It's not even the wnba being less athletic and dunking less than the NBA. Wnba "athletes" are far from it. They look extremely uncoordinated, not athletic at all, and don't seem to even know basketball. It just looks like a playground game or pick up game. If I were NBA players, I'd mention female Olympic athletes. Those girls are elite, and entertaining to watch. There's just something about watching another individual master and perform at the top of their craft. Don't see that in the wnba, and if you do it's too few players. They alone can't represent the league entirely and save it.
Completely agree. Every time I see WNBA players, they look so slow and don’t even seem to jump that high. Compare that to watching Simone Biles jump 10 feet on the air in the Olympics. Or if you wanna use a team sport, women’s volleyball. They truly are amazing at their sport. WNBA players just aren’t entertaining as athletes.
@@sadchild9478 Biles is very, very short. She's not dunking in a game either. And she doesn't compete on the rings with the male gymnasts. And there are WNBA players with a lot of skill. But women have small hands , not much muscle, and can't jump anything like the men. It is what it is.
This is exactly what I've been thinking. These women play the way my team used to play when it was just put together, and we train a miserable two times a week. We're teenagers.
Never needed one to know they aren't making any income. Blind supporters of wnba don't even watch wnba or even know starting lineup on one of the less popular teams.
@@Blitzkit What you just said is a sign of ignorance. People who care about facts do research and not relay on feelings. You have no idea how pro leagues work but you speak as if you do. Just say you hate that women can play ball better than you.
not only that but there are multiple instances of them making a series of such poor plays that they become confused and forget which basket they are supposed to be running to, and they all just switch it in their minds mid play when they see the person with the ball running to a hoop, and they play defense against a team trying to score in the wrong hoop... It is WILD how their brains are wired
These WNBA players do realize they make quite a bit more money than the average person who actually works five days a week for eight plus hours a day all damn year long? Geezus they’re completely out of touch.
@@Arctanis-vt3hl Maybe it's not apples to apples, but when your league is being subsidized by the NBA because you're actually losing money and generate no fan interest, you should at least be grateful to not have to work five days a week in a regular job.
@@Arctanis-vt3hlfine then don’t accept his argument. Accept this: the WNBA is ran at a deficit so they shouldn’t EVEN get paid if we lived in reality because the product is not profitable
I was playing 2K24 in the WNBA mode, on my PS5, and I wonder why the stadium is packed to the rafters. It should be more realistic and have it filled to 10% capacity. I demand realism!!!!
Somebody could get a really good phd for researching women's basketball. And researching about physical limitations for women's bball. This is for helping them to somehow generate income by having a really good playing field that's fitted to them. Wnba playing on nba field is like wearing a size 12 shoes while having a size 8 feet
There is this notion that they have "better fundamentals". It's an easy excuse which can't be measured, but since it is subjective, in my opinion NBA players also have better fundamentals 💁♂
@@bryannixon4297same wit the nba and the wnba today isn’t all airballs and missed layups if u actually watched a game it’s actually decent and them ladies be hooping
I really like the fundamental game in wnba however the game is boring to watch. No lobs, no dunks. I barely see any one getting crossed up. The only exciting plays are from good team work and passing
@@notyouraverage10k95I played competitive basketball growing up, I’ve seen any women in basketball impress me😂two different sports, you can walk and travel in women’s basketball because you can take extra steps, dunking is irrelevant I see no point of bringing that up but even way the way they dribble is bad, put any good boys high school varsity team vs the top wnba team they will get spanked up and down the court by high schoolers
Lower WNBA pay until they're making a profit, and then slowly build from there. If it's at about $100,000 now, cut it to $50-60 grand on average, more for better players, less for worse, until you're in the black.
They cant do that I dont think. The wnba makes 0 profit. So would that mean we dont pay them at all? Just have them play for free? lol I think they need to start with humbling themselves.
The funny thing is EVERYONE says lower the rim… but in the WNBA highlights I only see one or two attempted dunks…. Whats gonna fix the dribbles, the shots, the goofy back to back plays…. Sure a dunk would be nice I guess? But I don’t watch the nba bc of dunks I watch it and most ppl watch it bc of SKILL…. Women in my opinion don’t move fluidly enough to have certain skills or to make them look good so even if women start dunking they will be soft dunks… PLUS the Euro leagues pay women way more so why don’t they just go over there? Like they have options the WNBA is just one league
People get hooked onto the NBA because of posters or the potential. And it looks more natural because it's not soo tall. If you're having to calculate how to throw something onto a cliff or tall shelf, then you will move less fluidly because there is less comfort.
I went to a WNBA game. Seats were like $26 after taxes and I still left in the third quarter because it was unbearable to watch. I was more upset I paid for the parking at the venue
@@nahueljoelignacia2013Making 100K to be a failure for 30 years is crazy. I make half that and if I was costing my company money I’d be fired immediately.
NBA needs to learn from the mistake of US Men's National Soccer Team (USMNT)... Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Now, USMNT will need to split their prize money equally with the women's national team.
@@hashbrown4278Women's sports tend to draw better in Europe than in NA. Their clubs are directly linked to men's clubs so they have a built in audience right away. Sort of like college sports in the US.
I would rather flip burgers for the rest of my life than play professional soccer as a man and give half my earned money to a national women’s team that gets beat by a group of 15 year old high school boys.
What's truly amazing is that the size of the ball in the WNBA is smaller and the 3pt line is closer to the rim but making a suggestion to lower the hoop is met with dismissive and/or combative tones. If that is the reception you get for offering a suggestion then I say leave them to sink or struggle until they gain some humility. When they start to complain just plug your ears.
A true hero of our times. Thank you for saying this today. People get mad when you say the wnba is boring, but it is. I can't wait for the wnba to be shut down. It should have been shut down 15 tears ago.
I disagree - sports might be entertainment to you and I, but it isn't to anyone who plays the game. Basketball has to remain basketball, otherwise your watching a circus. Lowering rims, making the 3pt line shorter or other suggestions that change basketball into something else shouldn't be done.
@@Arctanis-vt3hl I respect your opinion and deep down I think I enjoy college over WNBA is because you don’t hear college players complaining all the time.
@@nathanpayne5358 lol amazes me how a business tht hasnt turned a profit in almost 30 years is so adverse to change and you have ppl tht cosign the foolery. If not for NBA, WNBA would have folded in 00s
Volleyball is a great example. The nets are lower, which allows the women to hit, block, jump serve, etc. Volleyball is also one of the only pro sports where the women make as much as the men or more in many cases, because they actually sell tickets.
Why is it so hard to explain basic economics? If i was paid to play a sport I love, while my employer was negative in revenue, i would count my blessings. I also wouldn't talk crap on the men subsidizing my failing company.
4:58 BARZ!!! Barz, I say. Little Rock, Arkansas. The WNBA players so easily play with and gladly accept a little rock, but they won’t accept a little or shorter basket hoop.
Their pride and thumbing their noses at the work involved in building a fan base that'll sustain profits is why the league is failing, I've always advocated for lowering the rim, I get geeked and hyped watching rec games bc they'll put it at 8.5ft and I get to see some middle age guys turn back the clock to dunk hard af. entertainment always has to come first.
I felt the WNBA had more hype and excitement during its infancy with the Houston Comets dominanting. Remember that team? Oh right they don't exist anymore. Imagine having a team that won 4 championships in a row become defunct in just over 10 years of its existence.
Remember the Three Time WNBA Champion Detroit Shock led by Bill Laimbeer.. Oh right they got sold and became the Tulsa Shock that folded and are now the Dallas Wings…
I think part of the problem is Shaq (a man) gave the suggestion of lowering the rim. If a woman from the WNBA suggested the same exact thing, that woman would have been praised. They don’t like that the idea came from a man.
Exactly! 🎯 What makes it worse is their three-point line is already *closer* to the hoop than the NBA's! And apparently the ball they use is *smaller* than the men's! So wtf???
Can't believe how straight-up rude and hostile the WNBA players are when the NBA players publicly support and acknowledge them. They will never win this battle and these women will never be happy, they just continue to blame the exact people who are supporting them the most. 🤦♂
wait, Lebron after retiring will do few more years in the WBNA as LeBronia , and then just then ...people will tune in (Joking..Men should NEVER be in Women Sports)
Imagine playing about a 9th grade skill lvl and wanting millions to play. I was at a hs lvl at 12 and cant make a dime playing ball. They should be greatfull there paid at all
hoenstly, they need a complete revamp of the game itself to make me even think about watching a game. if you wanna watch a good female pro sports league, a new womens hockey league just started, and its really promising and entertaining AND fast paced
I think basketball in particular demands an extreme amount of athleticism to be watchable, and women just don't have the height and musculature to reach that bar. Hockey seems much more doable coz it's more hand-eye coordination and reflexes, plus being able to skate well which can be developed with time invested.
The other part of this equation that usually gets left out is that most people just don’t have time to follow another league. I get that the WNBA season occurs during the NBA season, and that might bring in some basketball purists, but I suspect a lot of people are just going to watch another league/sport like MLB. People only have so much time and the WNBA is way down the list of alternatives. If you don’t like it, then seize the means of production, massacre dissidents, control the media, and distribute the goods after calculating prices using labor theory of value. Or just lower the damn hoop.
If both teams played hard and they used the men's/NBA ball the score would be around 150 to 22. If they used the women's/WNBA ball the score would be 170 to 30, and if we are talking playoff intensity the women may not even break double digits in scoring, they would be very easy to lock down with good defensive NBA players.
OMG if the men ran a full court press every inbound they would never get past 1/2 court. 170 - 0 end of story. I agree with Clay Travis a good boys h.s. team would smoke the WNBA champs. He bet a million dollars on it and they didn't take the bet. Rests his case😢😢
It was the "demand" for "tgeir share" qnd then when their share turned out they actually owe more money than they earn the "naw poor me" somehow that made me lose literally all respect for them lol. Hopefully Caitlyn Clark can turn them hopeless shites around and she wont pull no ego crap like that rither.
The only problem with lowering the rim is it would make it a lot harder for women to practice. We can't lower every basketball hoop in every park and every gym in the country
I think the MAIN reason for the WNBA was when they became a LGBT league. I remember when Swoopes left her husband for a woman and the league celebrated that like it was a good thing. She left her husband, not cause he cheated but because she fell in love with the assistant coach. That turned a lot of people, myself included off. Since then, they have doubled down on it being an alphabet league and even focused their kiss cam on same sex couples. Imagine being a conservative and going to a game with kids and that is the primary focus. It is a huge turn off. Even most of the players being studs and the known sexual harassment of straight women that has been downplayed even though there are players on record saying it happens............sorry I just don't see it ever being mainstream.
I practiced religiously at my local park as a kid. By 8th grade I could dunk on that hoop. Not fancy windmills just a basic get in over the rim dunk. I could hit any shot at any angle on the court at that park. I quickly realized when I played games at school and other gyms my park was a little lower than high school gyms. I practiced so much at my park all I had to do was practice 30-45 shots before the game and slightly adjust my release point to get comfortable. To hear any professional complaining about making adjustments makes me cringe.
I honestly think there's too much pride in these women to lower the rim and this pride is fueled by all these talk about equality like they believe that males and females are exactly equal, when in fact, they are not.
i havea solution for the wnba to even surpass the NBA. have them play in shorter sexier uniforms. i would definitely watch that over warriors vs lakers.
The record for women’s vertical jump is 26 inches. They need to adjust the rim to reflect the ratio. They just need to lower the rim to 9ft the moment one woman dunks on another the sport will blow up.
imagine being a WNBA player, you just won a game, in front of 2500 people in attendance, and on your way back to the dressing room you say to your team mates "we deserve to be paid alot more".... so either WNBA players literally never look in the stands to see the fans, or theyre just delusional. I used to play for a semi pro soccer team, we'd get between 2000 an 4000 fans at games, we got paid $1000 per month, if WNBA players started getting huge contracts it would be an insult to all the semi pros out there.....
Majority of the league is LBGTQ hopefully I got that right, I don’t want them to come for me. But they will never do anything like that, the NBA did wear short shorts before MJ changed the look. The problem with their league is, no one wants to see women trying to play ball like a man
There's a sport called Sepak Takraw, where people do impossible acrobatics to get a ball over a net by kicking it. It literally looks like Ninja Foot-volleyball. They don't even have to do much to make an anime adaptation. Those guys are waaay more talented and even they can't get paid.
Everyone claiming that lowering the rims would make the WNBA more popular are dead wrong. EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of women's basketball is completely unwatchable, from the dribbling to the passing to the shooting to the defense to the general athleticism. Watching WNBA players is like watching middle school boys basketball, which is about the skill level that WNBA players are at. Shaq saying "all that's missing is the dunks" is peak comedy. A few more clumsy dunks won't make a bit of difference in WNBA ratings. Nobody will EVER want to watch that crap, even if the rims were lowered to 6 ft.
It’s like that time in curb your enthusiasm where Larry tells cousin Andy he’ll put his kid through college, as a random act of kindness. So cousin Andy and his wife turn around and ask him to put her through school too which Larry very reasonably very upset.
Hold up… I’ve heard Iman’s quote before but this the first time I’m catching the straight bar he just dropped… “and y’all giving him a Little Rock, so he can shoot it from Arkansas”… salute my boy. 😂😂
I was a teenager when the WNBA was created. I’ll be 47 this year and that league still hasn’t made a profit. 💀
Maybe you should donate😅
@@bradchad2645that's the problem that's all they get is donations and nothing changes trashcan league 🗑️🚮
@@bradchad2645 maybe they should just go under and quit wasting everyone's time
@@jordancobb7553 that would be the preferred outcome🙏🏾
💀😩a prime example of the WNBA failing instead of aging like fine wine
The WNBA is an inspiration to my grandma. She was paralyzed for 13 years but one day while a WNBA game was on the TV she was able to get up and go turn it off.
You sir, deserve an awesome weekend. This needs more likes! This comment was worth every breath I used to laugh at it.
Bwahahahahaha 😂😂😂oh shit
🤣😂😄😆! Good one!!
Underrated comment made me laugh for a good 2 minutes
that was pure poetry,
I forgot draymond literally called them complainers lol
Funny and true 🤣🤣 they can’t handle the truth of what Draymond has said at all 💀
And then they complained that they weren't complainers
Draymonds bold
Back in 2006, this girl who I went to junior high with was going to sing the national anthem at the NY Liberty game. I was a teen and went to a private school so I had no ID. The tickets were at will call for me and my boy. The ticketing lady wouldn’t give me the tickets because I couldn’t “ prove “ who I am. I told her respectfully who would want to steal WNBA tickets. She thought about it and gave them to me 😂.
AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
😂😂😂
nice
So you weren't even there for the game 😂😂😂 just to hear the girl sing xd
@@Brondon96 😂😂😂 pretty much.
The most interesting thing the WNBA has had happen was that 1 player getting traded for a war criminal. Britney Griner for the lord of war, makes sense.
Merchant of Death
Go Brandon!
And shame on Baylor for retiring her jersey.
Russia won that trade 😂
Bruh let it go
Imagine a customer telling you what you could do to gain their business, but instead of listening, you do the the opposite and demand more money. Then you turn around and blame the customers for your failing business and insist your product is great, even though no one is buying it. They are absolutely ruled by their emotions.
This description fit like a glove to the actual Disney.
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@@superploclmao I was about to reply with the same thing 😂
You forgot that they are mad that white people are their fans with sold out arenas to watch CC because they are mostly old white men. They are so dense they have no idea that's the only fans they ever had.
Hear me out: They should play in smaller venues, fully capitalizing on what fans that are showing up.
You mean design a stadium with no audience? 😂
local rec gym would work
@@marcustang8784😂😂😂
The New York Liberty had to do that. They were losing money playing in Madison Square Garden, they had to move to a smaller 5K seat arena to keep operating costs low
like local hoops. payin to the watch the wnba is rather thoughtless
I'm so mad. I had 2 WNBA tickets in my car and today someone broke into my car and now there are 4 WNBA tickets.
😂😂😂
The damage was worth more than the tickets. They should have dropped 20 tickets, all courtside
Oh man, that threw me for a loop. 😂
Very nice!
Bwahahahahaha 😂😂
That joke was funny like 20 years ago. Get with the times, kid.
I'm going to be brutally honest, the entitlement of WNBA players has ensured that no matter what changes they make, I'll never even consider watching a game. There's nothing about having an ugly attitude that makes people want to support you.
They complain about making two or three times more than the average person for a season that’s only 40 games.
Faaaaaacts
@@cotati76they’re lucky they make anything at all
They’re women, what do you expect?
@@hashbrown4278 according to my calculations each wnba player should actually owe the league $82k since it loses millions of dollars a year.
The last WNBA allstar game had 10 air-balls and that’s with their best players
😂😂
Closer three point line, shorter quarters, smaller ball, all fine. Lower the rim? THAT'S SEXIST!!!!
And less than half the games
You Forgot About The Shorter Season Too !! 😮SMELL THE B. S.!!!
WOMEN AREN'T HOLDING UP THEIR END .MAYBE GET SOME OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES TO FIGHT IN THE STANDS OR KIM AND HER CLAN TO SHOW UP !!!😮
Lmao exactly we’re literally telling them what they need to make it more entertaining or intriguing but they don’t want it
Just shut down the WNBA already. They gotta be hanging on by a thread financially.
Lol its the wmn are wonderful effect at full effect in this gynocentric culture....
Ill take ur money but not ur advice 😂
Those ping pong players be going crazy tho man
Ping pong is entertaining AF!!
Seriously, when you get a long rally between two high level players it's INSANELY entertaining. Ping pong is awesome.
Most definitely rather watch Ping Pong than WNBA
Well thats why its such a good analogy. They go crazy but basketball is more popular so thats where the money is
Yes
Not even Caitlin Clark can save them. I’m extremely skeptical. One player cannot save the league and lets not get started with how much drama based it is to be in the team. Clark much rather be in a college home like Iowa.
Who??
@@chuchonchuchon7640just say you don't know BBall.
They need to bring out that drama. People watch the NBA due to the storylines. Drama sells man. Its entertainment.
@@twuandixon8675
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Go watch your wnba
If any one player can save the league she can. I don’t give 2 shts about the WNBA but I would pay to see her play.
It's not even the wnba being less athletic and dunking less than the NBA. Wnba "athletes" are far from it. They look extremely uncoordinated, not athletic at all, and don't seem to even know basketball. It just looks like a playground game or pick up game. If I were NBA players, I'd mention female Olympic athletes. Those girls are elite, and entertaining to watch. There's just something about watching another individual master and perform at the top of their craft. Don't see that in the wnba, and if you do it's too few players. They alone can't represent the league entirely and save it.
Completely agree. Every time I see WNBA players, they look so slow and don’t even seem to jump that high. Compare that to watching Simone Biles jump 10 feet on the air in the Olympics. Or if you wanna use a team sport, women’s volleyball. They truly are amazing at their sport. WNBA players just aren’t entertaining as athletes.
@@sadchild9478 Biles is very, very short. She's not dunking in a game either. And she doesn't compete on the rings with the male gymnasts. And there are WNBA players with a lot of skill. But women have small hands , not much muscle, and can't jump anything like the men. It is what it is.
This is exactly what I've been thinking. These women play the way my team used to play when it was just put together, and we train a miserable two times a week. We're teenagers.
WNBA should have a mandatory Business Finance 101 class for everyone in or entering the league.
What do you know about the financials of the wnba? Absolutely nothing.
@@Aumbomb I know they haven’t made a profit in 26 yrs and are fully subsidized by the NBA.
Never needed one to know they aren't making any income.
Blind supporters of wnba don't even watch wnba or even know starting lineup on one of the less popular teams.
@@Blitzkit What you just said is a sign of ignorance. People who care about facts do research and not relay on feelings. You have no idea how pro leagues work but you speak as if you do. Just say you hate that women can play ball better than you.
@@Aumbomb Delulu is never the solulu...
I seriously don't think women dunking will do anything, they can barely catch the little ball they play with
It wouldn’t help. Hang time is the thing that makes dunking exciting. On average, women can’t jump.
not only that but there are multiple instances of them making a series of such poor plays that they become confused and forget which basket they are supposed to be running to, and they all just switch it in their minds mid play when they see the person with the ball running to a hoop, and they play defense against a team trying to score in the wrong hoop... It is WILD how their brains are wired
These WNBA players do realize they make quite a bit more money than the average person who actually works five days a week for eight plus hours a day all damn year long? Geezus they’re completely out of touch.
This has always been a weak argument though - you can't compare your everyday job to that of an athlete.
@@Arctanis-vt3hl Maybe it's not apples to apples, but when your league is being subsidized by the NBA because you're actually losing money and generate no fan interest, you should at least be grateful to not have to work five days a week in a regular job.
@@Arctanis-vt3hlfine then don’t accept his argument. Accept this: the WNBA is ran at a deficit so they shouldn’t EVEN get paid if we lived in reality because the product is not profitable
@@mariosuarez3411Fuck bruh i’d love to make 100 grand hooping
@@Arctanis-vt3hlthat league loses money every year they’re lucky to be paid anything at all
I was playing 2K24 in the WNBA mode, on my PS5, and I wonder why the stadium is packed to the rafters. It should be more realistic and have it filled to 10% capacity. I demand realism!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I would be no more good i saw a youtube video of someone playing that and the stadium was almost empty...
Let's be honest even if they lowered the rim and started dunking no one would watch after week one.
I think 90% of them would not be able to dunk on a nine foot rim. Maybe I am wrong but those ladies can't seem to jump at all.
@sjbell4653 that is true.
It would be difficult for in game dunks at even 8.5.
Somebody could get a really good phd for researching women's basketball. And researching about physical limitations for women's bball. This is for helping them to somehow generate income by having a really good playing field that's fitted to them.
Wnba playing on nba field is like wearing a size 12 shoes while having a size 8 feet
yea, at this point we just trolling the wnba
There is this notion that they have "better fundamentals". It's an easy excuse which can't be measured, but since it is subjective, in my opinion NBA players also have better fundamentals 💁♂
Yep, I never have understood that argument. WNBA games are filled with airballs, missed layups, and turnovers.
@@bryannixon4297same wit the nba and the wnba today isn’t all airballs and missed layups if u actually watched a game it’s actually decent and them ladies be hooping
I really like the fundamental game in wnba however the game is boring to watch. No lobs, no dunks. I barely see any one getting crossed up. The only exciting plays are from good team work and passing
@@notyouraverage10k95I played competitive basketball growing up, I’ve seen any women in basketball impress me😂two different sports, you can walk and travel in women’s basketball because you can take extra steps, dunking is irrelevant I see no point of bringing that up but even way the way they dribble is bad, put any good boys high school varsity team vs the top wnba team they will get spanked up and down the court by high schoolers
"Better fundamentals" just means "slow, can't jump, and can't dunk".
Lower WNBA pay until they're making a profit, and then slowly build from there. If it's at about $100,000 now, cut it to $50-60 grand on average, more for better players, less for worse, until you're in the black.
They get paid more than a doctor, to be awful at what they do.
if you cant live off 100k a year you need to adjust your fucking lifestyle. nobody is owned any lifestyle or pay. pay is earned. not demanded
They cant do that I dont think. The wnba makes 0 profit. So would that mean we dont pay them at all? Just have them play for free? lol I think they need to start with humbling themselves.
You have know idea what the profits are, that's not public.
@@nomercyinc6783So you're against people fighting for fair pay?
The funny thing is EVERYONE says lower the rim… but in the WNBA highlights I only see one or two attempted dunks…. Whats gonna fix the dribbles, the shots, the goofy back to back plays…. Sure a dunk would be nice I guess? But I don’t watch the nba bc of dunks I watch it and most ppl watch it bc of SKILL…. Women in my opinion don’t move fluidly enough to have certain skills or to make them look good so even if women start dunking they will be soft dunks… PLUS the Euro leagues pay women way more so why don’t they just go over there? Like they have options the WNBA is just one league
SHHHHHH, you're combating emotion with logic!!
Women ARE NOT men!!!
@@darrengordon-hill they aren’t at all but it’s like ppl forgot that lol
People get hooked onto the NBA because of posters or the potential. And it looks more natural because it's not soo tall. If you're having to calculate how to throw something onto a cliff or tall shelf, then you will move less fluidly because there is less comfort.
Lowering the rim will produce less airballs and missed layups especially at the end of games when fighting fatigued
@@jdrmanmusiqkingbro a casual. Lowering the rim is not just about dunking. 😂 like you said better efficiency across the board if the goal is lower
I love the editing 😂😂😂😂 those inserted clips definitely represent how most of us feel
I went to a WNBA game. Seats were like $26 after taxes and I still left in the third quarter because it was unbearable to watch. I was more upset I paid for the parking at the venue
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the wnba should donate their earnings to a league that makes less money and see how they feel about it.
They can’t they aren’t making any revenue 😂😂
@@nahueljoelignacia2013Making 100K to be a failure for 30 years is crazy. I make half that and if I was costing my company money I’d be fired immediately.
Beach volleyball idea was the greatest. They need to dress like that.
jeeez, thanks for that visual
Sausage
NBA needs to learn from the mistake of US Men's National Soccer Team (USMNT)...
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Now, USMNT will need to split their prize money equally with the women's national team.
Women's hockey and European women's soccer are doing fine. The WNBA and USWNT failed themselves
@@NoCluYThow much are the women’s hockey and Europeans women’s soccer being paid?
@@hashbrown4278Women's sports tend to draw better in Europe than in NA. Their clubs are directly linked to men's clubs so they have a built in audience right away. Sort of like college sports in the US.
@@roytofilovski9530 true. Women’s college basketball does get good viewership
I would rather flip burgers for the rest of my life than play professional soccer as a man and give half my earned money to a national women’s team that gets beat by a group of 15 year old high school boys.
7:35. The defender literally walked away and griner still missed the open dunk 😂
Craziest part about that is no other 6'9 dude would miss that. How did he miss it with a smaller ball
Wheelchair basketball > WNBA
Savage. But not wrong.
Unironically true
Seeing those players cross each other up IN WHEELCHAIRS is far more entertaining and difficult than what any of those whaaa-men can do in the WNBA.
I’m mad you said that 😆and I’m extra disappointed in myself for thinking it was hilariously accurate 😂
Same amount of dunks for sure, and the dudes in wheelchairs don't complain about anything either!
"And y'all give him a little rock, so he can shoot it from Arkansas"
That's a bar🔥
"Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions." ~ Jules Michelet
What's truly amazing is that the size of the ball in the WNBA is smaller and the 3pt line is closer to the rim but making a suggestion to lower the hoop is met with dismissive and/or combative tones. If that is the reception you get for offering a suggestion then I say leave them to sink or struggle until they gain some humility. When they start to complain just plug your ears.
A true hero of our times. Thank you for saying this today. People get mad when you say the wnba is boring, but it is.
I can't wait for the wnba to be shut down. It should have been shut down 15 tears ago.
If I could watch ping pong on tv I absolutely would 😂
I love watching women’s college basketball but can’t get into the WNBA. Some of these ideas would probably help.
I disagree - sports might be entertainment to you and I, but it isn't to anyone who plays the game. Basketball has to remain basketball, otherwise your watching a circus. Lowering rims, making the 3pt line shorter or other suggestions that change basketball into something else shouldn't be done.
@@Arctanis-vt3hl I respect your opinion and deep down I think I enjoy college over WNBA is because you don’t hear college players complaining all the time.
@@nathanpayne5358 lol amazes me how a business tht hasnt turned a profit in almost 30 years is so adverse to change and you have ppl tht cosign the foolery. If not for NBA, WNBA would have folded in 00s
Womens college they move just as slow and awkward as the pros
Volleyball is a great example. The nets are lower, which allows the women to hit, block, jump serve, etc. Volleyball is also one of the only pro sports where the women make as much as the men or more in many cases, because they actually sell tickets.
Why is it so hard to explain basic economics? If i was paid to play a sport I love, while my employer was negative in revenue, i would count my blessings. I also wouldn't talk crap on the men subsidizing my failing company.
I watched the WNBA for about 10 minutes. That was 6 years ago. 😢😢😢
Women will tell us that we need to support the WNBA and then go out and buy zero tickets
Those Michael Scott "the worst" clips are everything! 😂😂😂 spot on and in perfect spots 😂😂😂
4:58 BARZ!!! Barz, I say. Little Rock, Arkansas. The WNBA players so easily play with and gladly accept a little rock, but they won’t accept a little or shorter basket hoop.
SAS “I mean you’re not wrong” 😂 Edit was 🔥
Their pride and thumbing their noses at the work involved in building a fan base that'll sustain profits is why the league is failing, I've always advocated for lowering the rim, I get geeked and hyped watching rec games bc they'll put it at 8.5ft and I get to see some middle age guys turn back the clock to dunk hard af. entertainment always has to come first.
you channel is so underrated it's a crime!
I felt the WNBA had more hype and excitement during its infancy with the Houston Comets dominanting. Remember that team? Oh right they don't exist anymore. Imagine having a team that won 4 championships in a row become defunct in just over 10 years of its existence.
Remember the Three Time WNBA Champion Detroit Shock led by Bill Laimbeer.. Oh right they got sold and became the Tulsa Shock that folded and are now the Dallas Wings…
I think part of the problem is Shaq (a man) gave the suggestion of lowering the rim. If a woman from the WNBA suggested the same exact thing, that woman would have been praised. They don’t like that the idea came from a man.
Which is stupid and prideful.
You ain't wrong though
Exactly! 🎯 What makes it worse is their three-point line is already *closer* to the hoop than the NBA's! And apparently the ball they use is *smaller* than the men's! So wtf???
now I know why alot of american men go overseas to marry jeez 😂
Im not a fan of Draymond Green, but he actually has a strong and factual argument.
Can't believe how straight-up rude and hostile the WNBA players are when the NBA players publicly support and acknowledge them. They will never win this battle and these women will never be happy, they just continue to blame the exact people who are supporting them the most. 🤦♂
They want the man's money. And the man's respect without any humility. I hope the wnba goes out of buiseness!
wait, Lebron after retiring will do few more years in the WBNA as LeBronia , and then just then ...people will tune in (Joking..Men should NEVER be in Women Sports)
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Transtesticlas are in female sports and they get away with it.
4:58 “Y’all give him a little rock so he can shoot from Arkansas” that was a bar Shump 😂😂😂😂
Imagine playing about a 9th grade skill lvl and wanting millions to play. I was at a hs lvl at 12 and cant make a dime playing ball. They should be greatfull there paid at all
The Michael Scott piece was gold! 🤣 🍻
Just wait until Lakers move Lebron to Sparks.
It will generate revenue.
Damn why lebron have to save the WNBA😂😂?
"Give him a little rock so he can shoot from Arkansas" is such a sick bar
hoenstly, they need a complete revamp of the game itself to make me even think about watching a game.
if you wanna watch a good female pro sports league, a new womens hockey league just started, and its really promising and entertaining AND fast paced
I think basketball in particular demands an extreme amount of athleticism to be watchable, and women just don't have the height and musculature to reach that bar. Hockey seems much more doable coz it's more hand-eye coordination and reflexes, plus being able to skate well which can be developed with time invested.
The other part of this equation that usually gets left out is that most people just don’t have time to follow another league. I get that the WNBA season occurs during the NBA season, and that might bring in some basketball purists, but I suspect a lot of people are just going to watch another league/sport like MLB. People only have so much time and the WNBA is way down the list of alternatives. If you don’t like it, then seize the means of production, massacre dissidents, control the media, and distribute the goods after calculating prices using labor theory of value. Or just lower the damn hoop.
Lowering rim so they can dunk would not help enough. Everything else is not the same. Their speed and skills on everything just lack.
If the rim is lowered to 9 feet, it will be too high for most WNBA women to dunk. It would literally need to lowered to 7 feet!
If the worst NBA team played against a WNBA team made up of their best players, how many points would the WNBA players score?
If both teams played hard and they used the men's/NBA ball the score would be around 150 to 22. If they used the women's/WNBA ball the score would be 170 to 30, and if we are talking playoff intensity the women may not even break double digits in scoring, they would be very easy to lock down with good defensive NBA players.
40
Less than 10, if the NBA players were trying.
OMG if the men ran a full court press every inbound they would never get past 1/2 court. 170 - 0 end of story. I agree with Clay Travis a good boys h.s. team would smoke the WNBA champs. He bet a million dollars on it and they didn't take the bet. Rests his case😢😢
@@joebauers3746 the WNBA wouldn't be able to score, it would be like 500 to nothing no exaggeration... you way off boi
5:52 even if they do lower the rim it still comes down to creativity like Windmills, 360s ,Under legs and Toma Hawks
a womens natural instinct is to ask for a handout
best comment for all wimp feminist videos
Caitlin Clark is cooking the NBA numbers don’t LIE!!!
No she’s not
It was the "demand" for "tgeir share" qnd then when their share turned out they actually owe more money than they earn the "naw poor me" somehow that made me lose literally all respect for them lol. Hopefully Caitlyn Clark can turn them hopeless shites around and she wont pull no ego crap like that rither.
Uhhh she just did she impersonated Kobe but she didn’t even win the title
The only problem with lowering the rim is it would make it a lot harder for women to practice. We can't lower every basketball hoop in every park and every gym in the country
I think the MAIN reason for the WNBA was when they became a LGBT league. I remember when Swoopes left her husband for a woman and the league celebrated that like it was a good thing. She left her husband, not cause he cheated but because she fell in love with the assistant coach. That turned a lot of people, myself included off. Since then, they have doubled down on it being an alphabet league and even focused their kiss cam on same sex couples. Imagine being a conservative and going to a game with kids and that is the primary focus. It is a huge turn off. Even most of the players being studs and the known sexual harassment of straight women that has been downplayed even though there are players on record saying it happens............sorry I just don't see it ever being mainstream.
They didn’t make a profit back then either…irrelevant
They actually had crowds back then and was growing. The stigma of a league like that does in fact come into play. @@styner3
Wnba: not sexy enough to attract male viewers, not good enough to attract female viewers.
Truth Hurts.
Shut down the WNBA. Such a waste of time and money.
Lower the rim to 9 feet!
I practiced religiously at my local park as a kid. By 8th grade I could dunk on that hoop. Not fancy windmills just a basic get in over the rim dunk. I could hit any shot at any angle on the court at that park. I quickly realized when I played games at school and other gyms my park was a little lower than high school gyms. I practiced so much at my park all I had to do was practice 30-45 shots before the game and slightly adjust my release point to get comfortable. To hear any professional complaining about making adjustments makes me cringe.
I honestly think there's too much pride in these women to lower the rim and this pride is fueled by all these talk about equality like they believe that males and females are exactly equal, when in fact, they are not.
I took an acting class. Why am I not paid Tom Cruise money!?
i havea solution for the wnba to even surpass the NBA. have them play in shorter sexier uniforms. i would definitely watch that over warriors vs lakers.
Some of them look and built like a man. No thank you to the shorter sexier uniforms.
Umm most these women want to be men..
The record for women’s vertical jump is 26 inches. They need to adjust the rim to reflect the ratio. They just need to lower the rim to 9ft the moment one woman dunks on another the sport will blow up.
imagine being a WNBA player, you just won a game, in front of 2500 people in attendance, and on your way back to the dressing room you say to your team mates "we deserve to be paid alot more"....
so either WNBA players literally never look in the stands to see the fans, or theyre just delusional.
I used to play for a semi pro soccer team, we'd get between 2000 an 4000 fans at games, we got paid $1000 per month, if WNBA players started getting huge contracts it would be an insult to all the semi pros out there.....
Im sure you were grateful to get paid for something you love aswell
Every time I get bad grades I am forced to seat courtside at a WNBA game
Sticking with the (beach) volleyball thing, you could have all the players in bikinis?!
Majority of the league is LBGTQ hopefully I got that right, I don’t want them to come for me. But they will never do anything like that, the NBA did wear short shorts before MJ changed the look. The problem with their league is, no one wants to see women trying to play ball like a man
you do NOT want to see WNBA players in bikinis 😦
@@gardonsmith1095 💯
Two different games. Different like Baseball and Cricket
extremely incredibly unimaginably unbelievably rare Draymond W
One of the very few!
Watching paint dry is better
But Clark is AWESOME
There's a sport called Sepak Takraw, where people do impossible acrobatics to get a ball over a net by kicking it. It literally looks like Ninja Foot-volleyball. They don't even have to do much to make an anime adaptation. Those guys are waaay more talented and even they can't get paid.
All publicity is good publicity, unless you’re entitled WNBA “players”
- Me watching the NBA. "Wow those guys are amazing athletes.."
- Me watching the WNBA... I don't
- Me if I did watch the WNBA... "I could do that"
The NBA is not entertaining most of the time. The all star game proved this. Men like giannis only get two dunks a game.
“Give him the little rock so he can shoot it from Arkansas” is a wild ass string of words
Everyone claiming that lowering the rims would make the WNBA more popular are dead wrong. EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of women's basketball is completely unwatchable, from the dribbling to the passing to the shooting to the defense to the general athleticism. Watching WNBA players is like watching middle school boys basketball, which is about the skill level that WNBA players are at.
Shaq saying "all that's missing is the dunks" is peak comedy. A few more clumsy dunks won't make a bit of difference in WNBA ratings. Nobody will EVER want to watch that crap, even if the rims were lowered to 6 ft.
Draymond with that Villain pose!!! 😂
It’s like that time in curb your enthusiasm where Larry tells cousin Andy he’ll put his kid through college, as a random act of kindness. So cousin Andy and his wife turn around and ask him to put her through school too which Larry very reasonably very upset.
A local radio station was giving away free tickets to the first caller. Nobody called in.
Women complaining, no way…Never. Absurd.
“little rock, arkansas” i see what you did there , shump 🏆😂
@ 1:57 Dr.Evil ain't having none of it 😂😂!
Hold up… I’ve heard Iman’s quote before but this the first time I’m catching the straight bar he just dropped… “and y’all giving him a Little Rock, so he can shoot it from Arkansas”… salute my boy. 😂😂
WNBA: Because sometimes you need a break from all that dunking and excitement in the NBA.
Steph vs. whoever in the 3 point contest is a no win situation. She wins, feminists scream. He wins, they still scream.
7:27 someone lost their job that day 😭😭
Kevin Durant may join the best wnba team to win a few more rings
The women's season is like 30 games and the quarters are 10 long so no they shouldn't get anywhere near what men get