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Message: [QUOTE="Purduke, post: 2799729, member: 3568"] Of course there is "a contract." It is called the Collective Bargaining Agreement. It was, of course, negotiated between the WNBA and WNBPA during 2014. Instead of all this righteous obfuscation, like: "Excuse me? If management concludes a collective bargaining agreement, which they did, to pay 20% of the gross to the players, then they're obligated not to play a "cat-and-mouse" game, but to tell the truth." why not just spend the 10 seconds it took me to go to the WNBPA website and pull up the CBA and read it yourself, and then you could answer your own question before asking it? Simple answer -- management didn't agree to that. So think of all the faux outrage we all could have been saved. Here, I'll save you the 10 seconds and post it: [URL]https://wnbpa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/WNBA-CBA-2014-2021Final.pdf[/URL] As to the agreement, there is a salary cap (Section VII) and a profit sharing agreement (Section XII). There are various league guarantees about minimum salaries league wide etc etc but interestingly, every dollar in the agreement is based on "regular season ticket revenue." Not ESPN contract revenue or total revenue including all the other various sources you speculate about, just regular season ticket revenue. That amount, oh by the way, must be reported every two weeks to the WNBPA, and at the end of the season, final numbers reported within 30 days. [LEFT][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)] And surprise, surprise, per Section XII.2.b.1 the WNBPA has the right to have that data independently audited (who could have guessed). But not every other part of the WNBA or NBA revenue structure. Just the regular season ticket revenue, because that is the metric that determines how much the league is obligating itself to pay. In CBA parlance, they call that "need to know." [/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] And one other big surprise, in other various sections of the CBA, broadcast rights, licensing rights, apparel sales etc are all addressed -- and generate no player income -- so it is not like those rascally-rabbit owners conspired to slip a quick one past those "how were we to know" UCONN and Stanford educated damsels. But here's the real kicker, the CBA was ratified by the players (WOMEN PLAYERS) when it was negotiated. So it really doesn't matter what some "economics" professor thinks hi sense of social justice requires the powers that be SHOULD pay those players -- the WOMEN PLAYERS decided just 4 years ago that isn't what they felt was (to use your word) FAIR. So what exactly is your point? [/QUOTE]

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