Moneyball...

[CTyankee]

My wife and I were talking tonight about Breanna signing to play in China in our off season...

How many of our UConn players are now or will be rightly considered "well heeled" as a result of playing overseas??? (Not including their product endorsements).

Who has the money? Russia? China? Turkey? Spain? Certainly not the WNBA...

Geno has to be very proud!!!! They should buy him dinner instead of otherwise...

Sue Bird?
Swin Cash?
Svetlana?
Diana?
Tina?
Stephanie?
Maya?
KML?
Breanna?

Others???

 

[Kaizen]

While the Mercury could only pay Griner $49,440 in 2013, the WCBA's Zhejiang Golden Bulls signed her for approximately $600,000, according toESPN The Magazine. Even with a $1 million endorsement contract from Nike, that type of money is hard to turn down. That's roughly six times more than the maximum salary in the WNBA (~105K). ==>WCBA pay is only for 4 months

Griner is far from the first star to spend her WNBA offseason in China, but now it is more clear of just how much the WCBA can offer. When Maya Moore, the top pick of the 2011 WNBA draft, signed with the WCBA's Shangxu Xing Rui Flame, she said she would be getting "significantly more than double" her $47,000 rookie contract.

Brittney Griner Makes 12 Times More Playing In China Than In The United States