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[QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2781780, member: 6911"]
Wow!!! She says that the WNBA players need to be prepared to strike!  The NBA did it, the NHL did it.  She left out the baseball strikes.  So, in her opinion, these players need to put it all on the line and strike.  Maybe 50% of the gross isn't realistic, but more than they have now.

D's WNBA pay is less than a tenth of her total income.  Right now she's playing in the WNBA "for health insurance," for dental.  What a disgrace for the NBA, which owns this league.

She says that the New York franchise's playing in Westchester "is a slap in the face."

She says that the NBA promotes its "D" (Development) League and its Summer League is if they are the greatest leagues in the world.  But the WNBA can't even get 20 minutes of highlights for the week.

So D is a labor activist.  She's been pushing for pay increases and better conditions (she called the fact that Phoenix has been on the road for 20 of the past 25 days "a slap in the face" of Phoenix fans).

Goes to support my contention that the low pay isn't a result of a bad product, but more a result of a controlling NBA that just doesn't give a fig about the women's league, and refuses to promote it in any meaningful way.

Keep fighting, ladies!!  You deserve so much better!!!!
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