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Message: [QUOTE="MSSportsGuy, post: 4656511, member: 6485"] Small rant after being tied up with work and life for a few weeks after season's end: No pro league has enough spots for the number of players who want in. The WNBA especially has a small number of teams and even smaller rosters so the competition for spots is insanely competitive. However, just because some potential rookies who are just coming off the immediate high of being FF and NC participants don't make a team doesn't mean there is a problem with the league. I think most of us would love to see the more teams to help grow the game but the reality is ownership isn't a money making proposition right now. It could be later on and it would be good to get the league to 16 teams where it was for a few years in the early 2000s. I still remember when the league launched in 1997 most of the players, and in the defunct ABL, were so happy to have an opportunity to play in the US and be closer to family and friends and play in front of "home" crowds. For the past several years I've heard a significant amount of bickering from many players about the travel, salaries, number of spots, the ever present "marketing" boogeyman. All of these criticisms have some merits but some of the players just come off as ungrateful or entitled, which is a quick way to turn off a potential audience or alienate some fringe fans. Morris of course has the right to be frustrated about her inability to latch on but so far her public tweets have been about expansion, veterans, and coaches getting players prepared, all of which are directed at others. It smacks of a lack of self awareness and places the blame on others. [/QUOTE]

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