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Message: [QUOTE="awhom111, post: 4227055, member: 8683"] Yes, foreign income will not be double-taxed, but some players play in countries that have much lower tax rates so they end up owing some to the United States too. As with everything tax-related, there is never one simple answer to cover all situations. To be clear, I am not in support of prioritization and think that is silly and unlikely to provide anything meaningfully positive. Now that it is suddenly in the news, there are people out there saying things about it that are not entirely correct. Practically-speaking, any foreign league that finishes in time that allows players to get to the United States by the end of April will have an acceptable schedule. That is already a few of them and some others would really only need to move the end of their seasons up a few days. There are a couple leagues that will probably have to say goodbye to signing experienced WNBA players like France unless they make absolutely drastic changes, but there are still going to be good options for WNBA players subject to prioritization who still want to play overseas and players and agents will know which leagues are going to have scheduling conflicts. As you mention, the suspension date is the start of the regular season in 2023 and May 1 in 2024 and after. Prioritization does allow for players to participate in national team play and gives some practice time, there are plenty of countries that usually practice for more than the two weeks before a tournament that is allowed. Before, the length of absence was between the team and player, but now the league is in control. I am not sure what the best way is to assess basketball popularity and viability around the world, especially given how different the model is pretty much everywhere compared to professional sports in the United States. I just think that is important to debunk myths that some people have spread about it. Women's basketball is not more popular in pretty much any country than it is in the United States. It's not that WNBA teams have no fans while teams in Europe have tons of fans spending lots of money on their teams. Women's basketball is not on equal footing as men's basketball in pretty much every country. Even if salaries for women in certain leagues seem very high, the men playing in those countries are making even more. [/QUOTE]

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