I’m tired of privileged athletes complaining about how much they do or don’t get paid.
[Angel] Reese and fellow WNBA player DiJonai Carrington addressed the next WNBA collective bargaining agreement during Reese’s podcast Friday.
“I’ve got to get in the meetings because I’m hearing like, ‘If y’all don’t give us what we want, we sitting out,'” Reese said.
“The WNBA don’t pay my bills at all. I don’t even think it pays one of my bills. Literally.”
What does this woman spend her money on? Apparently she pays $8,000 a month for rent. If your job “don’t pay your bills at all,” maybe you should downsize. Or waitress in the off-season. Or maybe try coding.
The loudmouth baller, who plays for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky, immediately showed America why she deserves more money.
WNBA player Angel Reese may not have helped her negotiating leverage much with a viral lowlight Monday.
During an Unrivaled game, Reese missed three straight shots while standing right under the basket, and one of the shots hit the bottom edge of the backboard.
Reese was able to at least come away with two offensive rebounds on the possession but fell to the hardwood after missing her third shot.
Footage of the sequence quickly spread across social media, and many mocked the timing of it after Reese ignited controversy with recent claims WNBA players may refuse to play games to negotiate higher pay.
As Ace says:
Before reading this, keep in mind that the real NBA, the men’s league, actually would allow any woman to play if they were good enough. They’re not a men’s only league by rule, but by practical fact.
Also keep in mind the NBA makes fifty (five-zero) times as much money as the WNBA, and the WNBA is, was, and always will be heavily subsidized by the NBA, who take less money to give more money to the women’s league players.
It’s already the Welfare National Basketball Association and of course they demand more welfare.
He doesn’t say where he got those stats, but I trust his reporting. Plus, it’s true of other women’s sports. Take women’s soccer for instance. I wrote about it some time ago here, after the women complained about the “pay gap.” The most pertinent point was what John Glynn said:
One of the major factors that separate men’s sports and women’s is a not so little thing called revenue. To put it bluntly, female soccer players, just like female basketball players and female hockey players, are paid less because their respective sports make less. The total prize money for the Women’s World Cup in France this July was $30 million; the total prize money for the men’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be $440 million.
This gap is criminal, right? It’s not. When viewed objectively—based on how much money each competition generates—women actually make more than men. How so?
Well, there is a sizable difference in the revenue available to pay the male and female teams. According to Mike Oznian, a writer for Forbes, the 2015 Women’s World Cup “brought in almost $73 million, of which the players got 13%. The 2010 men’s World Cup in South Africa made almost $4 billion, of which 9% went to the players.”
Men’s sports outdraw women’s sports. Men run faster, swing harder, jump higher and throw further than women do. They’re physically larger and stronger. That’s why women get hurt when men are allowed to play in women’s sports.
Entitled brats like Angel Reese, who just finished her rookie season, should shut her mouth and play a few seasons without groaning about how unfair life is. Once she’s proved her reliability as a player, she can ask for a raise.
Hi Dave, the WNBA drew so many more fans last year, than they had before, but as we all know, it’s still not anywhere near the level of the NBA. I watched Caitlin Clark play on occasion and she is quite talented, but one person who’s hard to watch is Angel Reese, who should probably keep her mouth shut and learn how to dribble and shoot. I like your suggestion of her getting a waitress job in the off season. Would that be considered a racist statement? 😏