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Message: [QUOTE="bballnut90, post: 4732284, member: 2117"] Aside from comments about marketing, it’s the same argument every year from players and everyone seems to conveniently avoid coming up with a financial solution. Players doubling and tripling their salary and getting private flights would be great, but who is fronting the bill for it? I know it probably isn’t realistic, but if anything, I think the W should push harder to get funding from NBA franchises or leverage the NBA to advocate for the W to get better ESPN/TV contracts. The average NBA team has a salary cap of 136m, so if you took 0.5% of that each year from all 30 teams and gave it to the WNBA to help grow the women’s game, it’d yield 20m a year that the W could apply to increased salary caps, franchise expansion, better marketing, etc. I don’t think it’d ever happen but a little boost from the NBA could go a a long way to help grow women’s basketball. Another idea is hiring folks at each franchise to work on landing brand partnership deals and sponsors like we are seeing with NIL. Most WNBA players have decent social media followings and could leverage this to increase money making opportunities. I think at South Carolina everyone on the roster makes 25k/year from some NIL deal and Texas Tech has a similar situation. [/QUOTE]