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[QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4307252, member: 1131"]
How do you know this?  Or are you just [B]assuming[/B] that if foreign leagues pay higher salaries (to SOME of their players), they must play better basketball?

The American players who play abroad all say (from the quotes that I have seen) that while their pay is better overseas, the quality of basketball and of coaching is better in the WNBA.  And that makes sense  -- women's BB in the US is clearly the best in the world as the Olympic results for the last 8 or 10 Olympics prove, and few if any of the best US players are not playing in the WNBA.   Sue Bird has been quoted as saying that if you took the best 12 US players who did not make the Olympic team and built another Olympic team from them, it would provide more competition for the Gold Medal than any other nation's team.

What is your source of information?  Have you watched a large number of games in foreign leagues?  What foreign league champion would you say could beat a WNBA All-Star team, particularly if the American players on the foreign team were removed from their roster?
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