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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 5090840, member: 11664"] Creating new powerhouse teams where none existed can have good ramifications for the game as new fans well be grown in a new area that can last for a lifetime. And there can be a spillover effect for the WNBA and March Madness too. We've already seen the WNBA pros complain about their pay scale & the lack of profitability of the WNBA & how they're 2nd class athletes. Just becuuse Caitlin Clark went to Iowa & patiently waited for her huge NIL shoe deal doesn't mean that every WCBB player has to wait their turn to cash in. Major League Baseball drafts kids right of high school and pays the top dratees big bucks in lump sum slot money to not go to college & to play minor league baseball instead. These young women sometimes need multiple surgeries before they graduate college from all of the wear & tear that's require to hone their BB skills. I don't see anything negative when the result will be that NIL money helps to grow the game. & to incentivize & support athletes to develop their skills. Once these players reach their prime then they eventually end up playing in the Olympics for national pride for a pittance. And US pro WBB players are some of the lesser paid players in the world. This all becomes part of growing the gane in the US. The more that we can understand it then the more that we can all accept it. [/QUOTE]