The WNBA Needs A Reality Check 

I just want to put this out there: DON'T hate on the WNBA for no reason-- you can criticize statements at your will but there is NO room for unnecessary hatred in this world during a time like this. I enjoy watching women's basketball and the WNBA has a lot of potential, but in order to move forward, I believe that certain players and fans need a reality check. NO HATRED IS TOLERATED! Let's discuss how to make the WNBA a more entertaining product.

I'm so mad. I had 2 WNBA tickets in my car and today someone broke into my car and now there are 4 WNBA tickets.

WNBA is an inspiration to my grandma. She suffered a leg injury in an accident but one day while watching WNBA she was able to walk in front of the TV and turned it off.

As Bill Burr stated, it’s not our job to make the WNBA work, talk to all the feminist on tv, or better yet pull all NBA funding and let it stand or fail on its own

Instead of going to jail, criminals should get WNBA season tickets with mandatory attendance. That would clean up the streets in no time.

I met a girl who was an absolute BB fanatic. When I asked her if she followed the WNBA. Her reply, "why would I watch a game of shoot and miss."

"BaSkEtBaLl iSn'T aBoUt dUnKiNg!!" Chicken isn't about spices, but they sure do make it better.

I remember when the Griner Cousins thing was happening. I said it speaks loads when her own Olympic coach said he would litteral bet his house against her.

The number thing kills me. Anyone in sports knows we call each other by number! My entire high school career I was 78. Someone people didn't even know my first name just my last name and number!

imagine being terrible at something, making 6 figures doing it, and still complain like youre a victim.

You could throw a grenade into the stands in a WNBA game without hitting anyone.

With all due respect, you can't be OK with them giving away a dunk contest trophy to a female when she didn't win it, then brink up their defensive/aggressive behavior because they are being enabled. They need a solid dosing of humble pie!

Every time the women in the WNBA ask for more money, the question should be asked publicly and of those women, "Where is the money going to come from to pay you what you are asking for?"

I'm glad the WNBA attendance has stayed consistent throughout this pandemic

This is literally the most WNBA I have ever watched.

Watching the players miss those wide open layups hurts.

In highschool with a group of friends we had some girlfriends playing with us. Mixed teams and at half we lowered the rim to 9. It was freaking great, the girls hit more layups and Amber dunked on Travis. Everyone exploded at the courts. Next thing we knew, all the girls wanted the rim lower.

WNBA: we want the NBA to promote our league so we can get the recognition we deserve NBA: Promotes league WNBA: How dare you

“Don’t try to understand women. Women understand women, and they hate each other.” - Al Bundy

The MLS was actually in a similar situation in the early 2000s. They were losing revenue, teams were folding, etc. But they made changes to the style of play, made smaller soccer specific stadiums they looked full with only 20,000 fans attending and now the league is set to surpass hockey and baseball. Here’s to a brighter and better future for women’s basketball.

Lmao Candace Parker did a normal dunk and beat JR Smith doing a behind the back dunk at the HS dunk contest

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a sports bar and someone has said, “Hey. Can you put the WNBA game on?” I can’t tell you because it hasn’t happened yet.

Reality WNBA History: 21 Dunks Steph Curry (6'2 PG Known for a lacking jump): 29 official dunks

You summed it up perfectly. The attitude from within the league is hostile and the players are driving away fans. Your average women's basketball fan understands the differences between men's and women's games. The skill disparity between the best and worst player on the court is much smaller in the women's game (same for soccer as well). I used to love the women's game because it was more team and passing oriented rather than being iso-ball and showing off 1v1 skills. It was entertaining because it was different and more pure. There are three key things the women need to do to fix their league. 1. Stop trying to be the men. Stop trying to compare your product with theirs. It will always be inferior if your goal is to emulate the men and inferior products only sell well if they and much cheaper. Highlight what makes your league special and sell your product to fans. 2. Take steps to becoming financially viable. Operating at a loss is bad business and you'll never see more money. Lower your salaries across the board. Lower ticket prices to a point where you can fill a stadium. 400 tickets at $50 is worse than 1000 tickets at $30. Butts in seats builds the fan base and cheaper tickets fills more seats. Be the cheap entertainment option. 3. OUTREACH!!! This is arguably the most important. Host community events, have meet and greets, and be available. These players are not NBA stars getting mobbed wherever they go. They are minor celebrities that need to endear themselves to fans. Be available. Meet with kids. Make friends with people that can help support your salary. Stop being egotistical wannabe NBAers and know your place. I make comparisons, but women's pro soccer and indoor men's soccer have to do these things. MLS went through this phase to get off the ground. Minor League levels have to do all this. Nobody goes to minor league baseball because it's the best product. They go because it's cheap, it's local, and they have a chance to meet players. The WNBA should not longer be an upstart league, but they've never really gotten the basics down to grow past that. And since the league operates at a loss and survives on NBA assistance, filling a stadium is a better long term investment than maximizing ticket revenue today. If you can get 10k people to come and are making less, you've got 10k people exposed and more likely to show up again. PS. If they want a 50% revenue share for salaries, wouldn't they owe the league money since the league operates at a loss?

Thanks a lot. This is exact;y what the WNBA needs right now. I totally agree with the idea of reducing the rim to 9'5 ft because the ball size is already smaller compared to that of the NBA so why not?

"Do women also hate women?" Me, a man who occasionally pays attention to his gf venting: The answer is yes.

I love the hypocrisy of being offended at the suggestion of lowering the rim, yet still playing with a smaller ball and a shorter 3 point line. I would have loved to see Tmac bring that up.

Two things about women’s basketball… 1) The notion that women’s basketball is somehow exceptionally fundamental needs put to rest. A quarter of the plays are a fiasco. 2) Watch a women’s college game and count how many times a player ends up on the floor. Sometimes it is for good reason, yes, but most of the time it is chaos.

12:28 I hollered 😂 as soon as I heard "if there's no referee" I knew what was next was gonna be hilarious!

I feel like women’s college basketball is more fun to watch then wnba

If he'd called her out by name, nobody would know who the hell he was talking about.

One of my friends went to Game 2 of the WNBA finals a few years ago. He said when he showed up the arena nearly looked like a ghost town. And he assumed that he was early or that it was still warmups. So he asked one of the workers when tip off was. And they told him it was already the start of the second quarter.

I remember when Ronda Rousey was on top in the UFC. She got asked a question about her not making as much as her male counterparts. She was like if I brought as much revenue to the organization like Connor or somebody. Then yes I'd be upset. But you get paid based of the value you bring to the organization just like any other job. Had mad respect for that response.

These women need to chill, I wish I can get an almost 6 figure salary playing like that. They are ungrateful as hell.

BG legit sounded like K Leonard when she laughed and Barry white when she talked. Lol

let's say I'm a businessman. I have a restaurant that costs me 10k a month. I have a waiter and this restaurant generates 20k per month. I keep myself 18, 10k for maintaining it, 8k for my own profit, and 2k for salary. The ratio is 2 to 20 aka 10% salary. But if my restaurant were to earn me 100k per month, I would've taken myself 60k, 10k for the restaurant, and 50k for myself. Then my staff would've got a salary of 40k and that's is 40 / 100 aka 40% ratio. That is why they do not have neither good salary or good ratio. They generate small amount of money, so they get lesser part of it, businessmen are not interested in earning $1, they always have their minimum expected income, and if that ain't happening, you get lesser salaries

Brittney Griner has everything lower than Cousins: height, skill and voice tone

WNBA game crowds had social distancing before social distancing

19:35 OMG that pic is a blast from the past. I think that's the 1950 Lakers Championship team when they were still in Minneapolis with George Mikan (99) as their center. He was a very influential player in his day. He's the reason the key under the basket was widened from 6 feet to 12 feet. He was the first player to score more than 10,000 points in his career.

it is a really good thing that you put some women's reaction, because one of the most mysogenistic thing is to expect from a women to watch women's sport. Sport has never been about what you can do with your own means, it has always been about excellence, not men excellence, not women excellence, just excellence, and that is why most of women sports are not popular. Like, why would I be excited to see a person run 100m within 10s60, when I know that others can run under 10s.

"The next time I watch a WNBA game, will be the first time I watch a WNBA game" Norm MacDonald

One of the saddest aspects of Kobe's and Gigi's tragic passing earlier this year is that it robbed the WNBA of a future superstar and it deprived the world of being able to see Kobe begin his second career as a WNBA coach and inevitably coach his daughter to multiple WNBA championships. A lot of us have never watched a WNBA game before, but who wouldn't pay good money to see Gigi hit fadeaways and play like a Kobe-clone with the Black Mamba himself coaching her on the sidelines. It would have been so beautiful.

it’s insane that this is even a topic. The league hasn’t made a profit in 26 years FOR A REASON!! Anything else is nonsense and A waste of time.

Brittney Griner: "Its okay little man" Demarcus Cousins: " Okay big man"

“We only get paid in the low SIX DIGITS” wtf I wouldn’t complain if I got paid to dribble and miss.

You can’t blame people for not watching the WNBA. People watch what they want to watch.

Biiig facts about they need to promote themselves positively to kids. When I was in elementary and middle school the chicago bulls and Memphis grizzlies sent a couple of players and cheerleaders to talk to us about fitness and hand out signed pictures. Even though they weren’t starters or big names from the bulls it was really cool for us kids. And Memphis did send a couple starters because they had just moved to Memphis and wanted people to come to the games. That’s active promotion of yourselves to sell tickets, not relying on the league.

90% of the WNBA game is jogging around and going lower then 0.50 for lay ups. No one is gonna pay to watch that over any other sport. They literally just need to get better. Get faster, jump higher, shoot better and the fans will come. But demanding more pay for such a mediocre product is just sad

I didn't know that it's physically possible to miss that many layups.

Imagine tweeting that your salary is only in the "low six figures" and expecting sympathy from regular people. 0 concept of reality. I guess I'll go to the CEO of my company and complain that they're not paying their employees 50% of their revenue... I'm sure I won't be fired.

My dad used to say, never needlessly make an enemy, but the WNBA seems to have a habit of doing so. The WNBA forgets every man has a mother, often has sisters, often has women he loves. We DO watch women's sports -- take tennis, for example. So it's not like men can't be persuaded to watch women's sports. However, it does need to be more entertaining and marketed with players who don't run their mouth constantly about pay equity, etc. and so on. The vast majority of the human race is poor and most of us will never play sports for a living. These women seem to forget that a lot.

If people complain about WNBA players being paid less than NBA players, then they should also complain about G-League players being paid less... It's a different league, of course they don't have the same salary, their league is making less money.

"The skill level in the WNBA is off the charts!" That was an interesting statement he made as "off the charts" can mean two very different things.

I never realized how aesthetically unpleasing watching consecutive missed shots really is. It’s almost like my mind rejects it and makes me so uncomfortable

One player said that, as a rookie, she was given between $58k-$60k a year. If at any point in my life I made over $1k a week, I'd live like a king.

In highschool, a large group was playing on a court at the old elementary school. Mixed teams, was slow and boring. Then we switched from the regulation rim to a rim that was 6 inches lower. The games really opened up. Was freaking great, I got dunked on by amber. Crowd blew up, parents came out to watch, then aunts and uncles started showing up. Ended up having a tournament the next weekend. Three point line was also closer. I really believe that a lower rim will get a ton of casual fans to watch more games. Oh, I wasn't the only guy who got dunked on. Louder reactions when girls dunked on other girls. Honestly, those games with the girls being more competitive were in and are the best times to play

If they lowered the rims to make in game dunking feasible they would get a lot better ratings. There's been more dunks in single NBA games than the whole history of the WNBA.

"Hey I want 50% of your revenue". - Ok, we lost 2 million. You owe me 1 million. You're welcome.

Dang I thought I found the queen of 'air ball' , D. Rodman. You gals took it to another level.

If it's so unreasonable to expect you ladies to play basketball full time for what you are paid, then don't. Quit and go find a better job. This is 1000% jealousy of the money the NBA players make and nothing else. Most people would kill to be given the chance to make 100 grand doing something they love.

Brittney Griner: "It's ok little man" Griner is 6'9 205lbs, Demarcus Cousins is 6'11 270lbs

At the amateur level your job is to score. When you turn professional your job is to sell tickets.

I can't watch baseball on tv but I actually quite enjoy womens softball because its faster paced with more action due to being on a smaller field. It has nothing to do with gender, it has everything to do with entertainment

OH NO, NO, NO! We don't ever want to lower the basket! The integrity, please. But, we'll use a smaller basketball, please.🤣🤣

I called the arena to see what time the WNBA game was starting. They said, "What time can you get here?"

"My salary was only a small 6 figures" Woe is me, I shall play this tune on the world smallest violin

Theres a reason for the pay gap. There's people like me that would rather take $1 than a free wnba ticket.

“If there’s no referee, I’m gonna go sell my house, and bet all my money on cousins”😭😭😭 dog chilllllllllll

The owners should just say " your going to be paid by how you generate sales and viewership- DONE....THATS IT!......Nobody comes, then u know why....if ur checks get lower n lower, thats alllll on u.....PERIOD

To Kelsey, I have never seen a WNBA jersey worn out in the wild...not one in 25 years.

“Whats the argument? NBA, WNBA; Ones a sport, ones a joke, I love sports, I love Jokes” - Dwight Schrute

Imagine complaining about six figures to play basketball. I'm a man and if I got that much too dribble you wouldn't hear a peep from my mouth

I always wondered how no one knew that Mr. Leslie were my mistake. Miss Leslie is a man. And that’s a fact I don’t know who the WNBA think they were fooling because as a gay man family recognize his family 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

There's one aspect of the women's game that is rarely if ever mentioned - explosiveness. 95% of the players lumber around, are incredibly uncoordinated, and move at about 70% of the speed of male players (NBA or otherwise). It's the same with women's wrestling, soccer, and hockey. There has never, ever been a moment in the WNBA where a player exhibited a "WOW" moment of athleticism. Dunking or not, that is the reason I find it so deeply uninteresting.

I would actually love to see a high school boy's team play a WNBA team.

Imagine if there was a “Shaqtin-A-Fool” for the WNBA. Each episode would be 3 hours long

You're absolutely right, they should be going to schools and doing tours, promoting the sport. Give free tickets away to these girl teams.

The WNBA CBA has a clause where players would make 50% of the revenue once the revenue reaches a certain point. The league is nowhere near that revenue mark. If the players made 50% of too low of a number, like you said, you wouldn’t be able to pay coaches, pay for flights, pay janitors, etc. If the players got what they want, their league would die. The owners have been losing money every year for 25 years and the players are asking for raises and private flights. NBA players in the 60s worked day jobs while they were building the NBA and it still almost failed multiple times. If the NBA didn’t stipend the WNBA, the league already wouldn’t exist. The players really think they deserve more money?? They’re lucky they still have a league and stadiums to play in. The level of entitlement is actually absurd.

"The skill level is off the charts IN WNBA" my eyes rolled so hard that I saw my frontal cortex

If I see a female windmill dunk on someone I’m deff watching 😭😭

crazy how the low-lights is from one game... wild

The women's soccer league has already made a joke of themselves in front of the country when their wage inequality lawsuit was thrown out of court with extreme prejudice when it was discovered that they were already being paid more, over all compared to men's Soccer league in guaranteed salary and benefits. Men on the other hand were only earning commission per game with bonus. So what was the court circus about? They wanted to amend their contract to include commission and bonuses per game without removing the guaranteed salary and benefits with non of the drawbacks from the men's contract.....very greedy and frivolous lawsuit. A shameless act by the neo feminism activists.

I’d rather watch the old heads play in my nearby park

"I would sell my house and bet all of the money on boogie." LMFAO i was crying

No one ever had that much air since Covid, when they were on oxygen 😅

That Brittany is not a biological woman, that is a straight up one hundred percent man😂😂😂

its so hard to feel bad for people making low 6 figures for their dream job

Remember that one time Dreymond Green tweeted "I'll pay 100k just for these women to shut up" or sum like that. Dude has no chill 😂

When he said his views changed at the beginning I thought he meant people stopped watching him and I was like: “oh no, people started hating on him for defending the WNBA players?”

I love looking at the stands, noone is there lmao

A 9ft rim so they dunk...they already play with a smaller ball.

Women's college basketball is a MUCH better game than the WNBA.

Watching the airballs in the background 💀😂

and they have these commercials during the playoffs comparing stephen currys rings to sue birds and candace parkers..... please

“The skill level is off the charts” Me: yeah it’s so bad that it doesn’t even reach the charts

Just read about an amazing player coming to the WNBA soon! I think her name is Dee Lusional...

There’s something about watching a basketball game come to an end with a soccer score.

There is no gender restriction in the NBA, right? So why don't all these female ball artists find an NBA Team and make the big bucks? As far as I understand the WNBA players they play the "highest level of basketball" in the WNBA, so the NBA should be a piece of cake for them...

This video be getting more views than the actual wnba

They should lower the rim. It's kinda like when you were younger and you'd lower the rim to do some crazy dunks for fun. That's the entire point; FUN. The game is for fun and entertainment. Make the game more entertaining and more people will watch it.