2025 WNBA Off-Season

[CamrnCrz1974]

If Dallas gets the #1 pick, I believe the Wings should strongly consider Olivia Miles over Lauren Betts.

Miles demonstrated massive improvement as a shooter from outside, especially in terms of her pull-up jumpers. And Miles is an elite pick-and-roll guard.
I also like pairing Miles with Paige, given both have mind-boggling abilities as facilitators.

Betts may be a good passer for a big and a disruptive force defensively, but can she be a player to whom you can dump the ball and expect her to consistently beat defenders with her post moves? Can she improve the range on her shot to make her jumper an effective weapon in the pros.

 

[Dillon77]

Seattle Storm Choose Liberty's Sonia Raman as Coach

Interesting that after Sandy Brondello was let go, many stories on "who next for the Liberty?" thought Raman might be the choice, particularly given that GM Jon Kolb said he was looking for someone to move the franchise forward. Raman, with her background in the NBA (Memphis Grizzlies) seemed to fill that role.

Instead, she's off to Seattle where the front office has to make a decision to bring back several older, go with strictly youth and/or some combination thereof.

Many thought Briann January would be in contention for this job. Might she be so for the Liberty? Or does Kolb have his eyes set on someone else?

Sources: Storm to hire Liberty's Raman as coach

Liberty assistant Sonia Raman has agreed to a multiyear deal to become the new head coach of the Seattle Storm, sources told ESPN on Friday.

www.espn.com

 

[cancontent]

They certainly can do that.
My point was how the Instagram post attributed a statement to Adam Silver that he did not actually say.

How can his statement saying that looking at it from a share perspective isn't the way to look at it not an indication that revenue share is not on the table? That's the first sentence of his quote.

 

[CamrnCrz1974]

How can his statement saying that looking at it from a share perspective isn't the way to look at it not an indication that revenue share is not on the table? That's the first sentence of his quote.

ilver did a sit-down interview on NBC's "The Today Show" about the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

As the interview with Craig Melvin would down, Melvin asked Silver whether he believed players should receive a larger share of revenue in the next CBA, citing the 9% figure that has been widely referenced in public debate of the topic.

Silver began his answer with a direct answer of "yes", which is in line with what the WNBPA is fighting for.

That is the exact opposite of what the OG headline said

 

[cancontent]

ilver did a sit-down interview on NBC's "The Today Show" about the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

As the interview with Craig Melvin would down, Melvin asked Silver whether he believed players should receive a larger share of revenue in the next CBA, citing the 9% figure that has been widely referenced in public debate of the topic.

Silver began his answer with a direct answer of "yes", which is in line with what the WNBPA is fighting for.

That is the exact opposite of what the OG headline said

That's not how it's been reported by anyone since the interview. Annie Costabile's article for Front Office that I posted previously have said the same thing. So which is it? Regardless how the quote was interpreted/misinterpreted, revenue sharing isn't on the table based on multiple reports.

 

[JellyBean]

Love this hire on so many levels. Great hire. Great move Toronto Tempo (That name is going to take a minute). Sounds like an AAU team.

 

[NycUcWbbFan]

ilver did a sit-down interview on NBC's "The Today Show" about the start of the 2025-26 NBA season.

As the interview with Craig Melvin would down, Melvin asked Silver whether he believed players should receive a larger share of revenue in the next CBA, citing the 9% figure that has been widely referenced in public debate of the topic.

Silver began his answer with a direct answer of "yes", which is in line with what the WNBPA is fighting for.

That is the exact opposite of what the OG headline said

Yeah, Adam Silver did a blatant bait and switch (he lied), by giving two contradictory answers to Craig Melvin’s question &1:

Craig Melvin: “… they get 9.00% of total revenue compared to roughly 50.00% of revenue for NBA players. Should they be getting a larger share of the revenue for the WNBA?”

Adam Silver: “YES. I mean share is not the right way to look at it because there’s so much more revenue in the NBA. I think you should look at it in absolute numbers in terms of what they’re making and they will get a big increase in this cycle of collective bargaining and they deserve it.”

So the answer is a NO. (Silver is blatantly double speaking to avoid giving a (true) negative sound bite).

And the share seems to be declining since the Media Rights Deal allocation is reportedly 6x the old one, whereas the fixed salaries in the latest proposals are reportedly 4x of the old one.

&1 (Today Show @5:01)