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Message: [QUOTE="maccca3232, post: 2897079, member: 7923"] The interesting thing with the 50/50 split for NBA is that it is based on revenue not profit, which I assume is because that businesses in general try to reduce their profit for tax purposes. How realistic is it for the WNBA to justify the same revenue split as the NBA, when we don't know how profitable each league is? Even if the NBA team loses money in an individual year, the franchises themselves are increasing in value, so in the long run the owners still come out in front. Can the same be said about the WNBA franchises? How many and what percentage of WNBA franchises have folded? When was the last? Now ask the same question about NBA franchises? From the article [URL='https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidberri/2017/09/20/there-is-a-growing-gender-wage-gap-in-professional-basketball/#364221b336e0']Basketball's Growing Gender Wage Gap: The Evidence the WNBA is Underpaying Players[/URL] there is a link to [URL='https://summitthoops.com/2017/08/28/wnba-salaries-database/']Summit Hoops[/URL] which shows WNBA salaries. Even though average salary in the article says ~$70k most are either: over 100K or rookie contracts. No doubt the very top players deserve more money. I admit I haven't read the current CBA for the WNBA but I think a way to compensate those top players is to introduce a criteria based ranking (All-Star, All-WNBA, PIE, Win Shares etc.) for the equivalent of a super-max contract of 50% of the maximum contract. This would add approx 6.5% to overall salaries (based on salaries of 110k maximum and 71k average). This would be excluded from the salary cap and restricted to a max of one per team (i.e. the highest rated player on each team) and paid by the WNBA not the individual teams. [/QUOTE]

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