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Message: [QUOTE="j66kicker, post: 2944516, member: 4447"] It seems like the author contradicts himself. The main premise of the article is that it’s all about player bargaining power, and he give lots of stats from different sports/leagues/times to show this. The players with the most leverage were those with other options - new league (ABA), eventually free agency. (At that point I was thinking the WNBA players should not go for 50% of revenues, but rather go for ‘no cap.’ Then the star players could hold out for whatever the think they’re worth, with the threat being to just play overseas and skip the WNBA.) But at the end he concludes that it really wouldn’t cost the NBA that much ($18 million) to just subsidize (“invest”) the WNBA salaries up to the 50% level. What does that have to do with bargaining power?? [/QUOTE]