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[QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2747302, member: 6911"]
The point of the Forbes article is that women's basketball has some amazing talents, features incredibly credentialed women playing the same game as the men.  Yet while women tennis players now make millions of dollars playing their sport, women basketball players are paid a pittance for their efforts compared with the men.

One only has to look back a few decades to baseball to understand how the economic structure of a professional sport can unfairly suppress salaries.  After the flood gates opened after Curt Flood's lawsuit against major league baseball was successful, salaries exploded.  So did ticket prices, but the values of franchises rose exponentially.

Women basketball players, playing in the league established by the NBA itself, deserve better salaries, and certainly the Ten Best deserve far more than they are receiving.  What is overseas women's pro basketball doing right that permits them to pay six- and seven-figure salaries to American stars, while the NBA's women's league pays salaries that aren't even competitive with those of school teachers?

Good article asking relevant questions.
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