2020-21 NBA Offseason thread: Officially a wrap

51% of women describe themselves as sports fans.

The impacts of role models has been studied by social scientists and the effects are pretty powerful.

The NBA is lucky basketball is a sport that can be played by women and it's a significant advantage to have a professional league the generates role models that influence future women to play basketball.

The WNBA is a loss leader and maybe it stays that way for the rest of time

but it's still valuable to the NBA. And the WNBA players are right to try and leverage that value to get a better deal.

osh kosh bosh osh kosh bosh there is a possibility that the 51% of the female fan base you mentioned prefers to watch the NBA as opposed to the WNBA because they may find the male athletes attractive.

The quality of play with the NBA is more engaging presently for male, female and children alike. WNBA has a ways to go and it may or may not get to the same level. If the NBA were to offer parity at a pay level to the WNBA then the latter may simply not be motivated to get to the same level of the former as there would be no incentive to do so.
 



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Wnba- how about chop their season from 34 games to 24 games, which is 29.5% decrease. Only cut their pay about 15%. Everybody happy :pimp:
 
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