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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2111954, member: 199"] Yeah - more interesting stuff there. As an interesting exercise - there are 32 'foreign' players playing in the WNBA but that includes 8 who are dual citizens playing on a foreign national team like Lindsey Harding and another 5 who are Canadian which is a special case - so really about 20 of the about 144 WNBA players this past year were European, Asian, South American, African, or Australian - leaving 124 US/Canadian players. According to the stats on that twitter feed from Eurobasketnews - there are 181 NCAA basketball players playing world wide. With probably about 10 WNBA players not playing overseas in any given year (more/less?) due to rehab or other commitments/interests that makes about 70 NCAA players not in the WNBA making a living of some sort professionally playing ball. What that number does not identify is if some of those 70 college kids were foreign students in the US or if they are only counting US kids in that total. If it includes foreign students one would guess they make up at least half of the total. So maximum employment for US WCBB players is about 190, and minimum is somewhere in the 135 range. Not a great career choice!!! 95% unemployment! [/QUOTE]