Just when you thought Congress couldn't get any dumber..

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Who ever said there are no dumb questions was wrong.
2 senators want an investigation into the question of why WNBA players are paid so much less then NBA players. [emoji6] [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38]
Just one part of the answer is TV revenue alone is 2000 times higher for the NBA.
Math is hard for some people.


https://amp.dailycaller.com/2019/07/12/jacky-rosen-amy-klobuchar-wnba-less-pay

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I'm sorry I didn't read in the article where they are being forced to play this game. Seems to me they signed a contract, and new how much they were going to be paid. If they are not happy to play for the amount they signed for, why did they sign up to play?
 
The problem “gooberment” economics, that these idiots are likely use to, says you can pay out way more than you take in because all they have to do is raise the bet limit ... while “real world” economics says if you pay out more than you take you go out of business. The WNBA as a league doesn’t have close to enough GROSS revenue to pay the contracts of just one NBA team much less the the whole NBA ... so unless the WNBA has a printing press like the US Gooberment and can print worthless greenbacks it economically can’t happen.
 
The best I can tell, total WNBA attendance in 2018 was about 1.3 million. NBA attendance for 2018-2019 was 21.9 million. WNBA is paid $25 million for TV rights, and the NBA signed a 9-year deal for an average of $2.6 billion per year.

There are 30 NBA teams and 12 WNBA teams. The TV contract alone pays the NBA an average of $88.9 per team, and the WNBA gets $2 million. (CBS just signed a multi-year deal, terms not disclosed. The $2 million figure is from the previous ESPN deal.)

I don't like either league, don't watch any games, but I do like math.
 
Just when you wonder out loud, "Can Congress get any stupider," they hear that and take it as a challenge.

D@$& NSA! Stop listening to my phone calls!
 
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