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Message: [QUOTE="maccca3232, post: 5313683, member: 7923"] Negotiating in public, in general, but specifically the T-shirts was counter productive but at least they own it unlike the owners who anonymously feed media. Aforementioned articles about the league losing $50M last year. So why did the league introduce private flights last season for all teams and all games (if I recall correctly the estimated cost was $20M, after recently penalizing the Liberty for using private flights on selected flights, due to unfair advantage), in recognition of the security concerns for Griner & Clark or as a negotiating tool for the upcoming CBA? Potentially for both reasons but to determine which is more likely, ask yourself would they still have introduced it, if the CBA opt-out was 4 years away? I think the WNBA players would like to see $1M annual contract but it think it can wait until the next CBA. If the TV money is going from $60M to $200M, that equals an extra $140M per year. If we accept they lost $50M last year, that is still plus $90M. For context based on a hard cap of $1,507,100 per team for 13 teams, the total salaries for this season are ~ $19.6M. If they [B]triple[/B] the cap, that equals an extra ~ $40M. If they increase the roster size from 12 to 14, that would add another ~ $5M, which is half (40+5=45/90 of the positive difference = 50%). I would be happy for 250% of base in 1st year (Super Max 625k, Rookie Scale avg. 217k) and add 10% of base in each of the next 5 years to reach the 300% (Super Max 750k, Rookie Scale avg. 261k). The proposed top Rookie scale average ($261,149) would than be more than the current CBA Super Max. [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Season[/TD] [TD]Current CBA Rookie Scale[/TD] [TD]Triple Rookie Scale[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Year 1[/TD] [TD]78,831[/TD] [TD]236,493[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Year 2[/TD] [TD]80,408[/TD] [TD]241,224[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Year 3[/TD] [TD]88,449[/TD] [TD]265,347[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Year 4[/TD] [TD]100,510[/TD] [TD]301,530[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total[/TD] [TD]348,198[/TD] [TD]1,044,594[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Average[/TD] [TD]87,050[/TD] [TD]261,149[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Edit: People are talking about realized loss/gain (e.g. $50M last year, $XXX since league was created) but not the unrealized gains (Liberty was brought in 2019 for between $10M to $14M and is now valued at between $450M to $500M). My understanding is the unrealized is not taxable but the realized loss can be offset against other income. [/QUOTE]

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